Recently published Ornithological Works. IST 



for the " returns " from which all students of migration are 

 infinitely indebted to Mr. Barrington. An account, by 

 Mr. MoflPat, of a visit to the Copelaud and Mew Islands — 

 once the famous breeding-place of three species of Tern — is 

 supplemented by a list of the rare Irish-killed birds in the 

 Belfast Museum^ many of these being " classical ^^ in repu- 

 tation, as having been mentioned by Thompson. Mr. R. 

 Warren gives an excellent description of the habits of the 

 Long-tailed Duck in Killala Bay, and his observations are 

 not made chiefly " along the barrels of a gun/^ which, as 

 Mr. Lockwood Kipling observes, ''is false perspective." 

 Mr. Warren also describes the migration last spring of 

 Motacilla alba along the banks of the Moy ; and, we may 

 add, there can be hardly any doubt that a pair of White 

 Wagtails were nesting early in June near Belmullet. In 

 fact Mr. Warren's experiences, taken with those of Mr. G. 

 H. Caton Haigh in North Wales, and of others in Scotland, 

 all tend to show that there is a fairly regular migration of 

 this species — of far more importance than has hitherto been 

 realized — along the western portions of the British Islands, and 

 probably on the way to Iceland. Mr. Warren's experienced 

 eye also detected, in summer, an immature Iceland Gull 

 among some Herring-Gulls feeding in a field in Co. Sligo, and 

 we are perfectly satisfied with his identification, which is 

 saying a good deal in the case of a young Gull. In the 

 longest paper of the volume Mr. C. J. Patten gives a useful 

 list of the species of birds observed in Dublin Bay. Short 

 notes on rare or uncommon birds are contributed by Messrs. 

 B arrett- Hamilton, E. Blake Knox, E. Patterson^ and others; 

 one feature being the general testimony to the spread of the 

 Stock-Dove (Columba cenas) in Ireland, where the bird was 

 formerly very local, and practically confined to the north- 

 eastern portion. 



We hope this useful periodical may receive support in 

 Great Britain, for naturalists are necessarily scarce in Ireland. 

 Its cost is the mere trifle of 5^. yearly, and, although our 

 notice is limited to birds, a very large portion of the work 

 is devoted to other branches of natural history. 



