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X. — Notices of recent Ornithological Publications. 



1. Alcock on the Birds of the Pamirs. 



[Report on the Natuval-IIistoiy Results of the Pamir Boundary Com- 

 mission. By A, W. Alcoek, M.B., Surgeon-Naturalist to the Commis- 

 sion. With a list of the Plants by J. F. Duthie, and a notice of the 

 Rock-specimens by T. II. Holland. Calcutta, 1898. 48 pp. ; 5 pis.] 



Dr. Alcock accompanied the Pamir-Boundary Commission 

 of the summer of 1897 as Naturalist, and now gives us an 

 account of the results. Examples of 143 species of animals 

 were obtained, of which 66 came from the Pamirs. The 

 birds have been determined by Mr. Finn, of the Calcutta 

 Museum. Those of the Pamirs are of 37 species, besides a 

 few others not positively identified. They are nearly all 

 well known. Besides these, specimens of 18 other species 

 were procured on the route from Kashmir to Bozai Gumbuz, 

 where the Little Pamir was entered. 



2. Annals of Scottish Natural History. 



[The Annals of Scottish Natural History, a Quarterly Magazine, with 

 which is incorporated ' The Scottish Naturalist.' No. 27, July 1808, 

 and No. 28, October 1898.] 



An editorial notice of the action taken for the protection 

 of wild birds and their eggs in Scotland is the first paper 

 within our scope in No. 27 ; and Mr. Peter x\nderson follows 

 with a useful list of 128 species of birds observed by him 

 during twelve years of residence on the island of Tiree. The 

 great feature is, however, the account given by Mr. William 

 Evans of the discovery of several pairs of Pintails [Dajila 

 acuta) nesting on Loch Leven, in Kinross-shire — the first 

 thoroughly-authenticated instauceof the breedingof thisDuck 

 in Great Britain. The minor notes are of unusual interest; 

 among the records being the first occurrence for more than 

 thirty years of the Marsh- Harrier in Dumfriesshire. 



To No. 28 Mr. T. G. Laidlaw contributes a valuable re- 

 port on the movements and occurrences of birds in Scotland 

 during 1897, and we may remark that this seems to be the 

 clearest record published on the subject. Among the minor 



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