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is followed by a short but interesting article by Mr. William 

 Evans on some eggs ascribed to the Wood- Sandpiper {Te- 

 tanus glareola), taken in Elginshire in 1853 by the late 

 Mr. C. Thurnall, of Wliittlesford, Cambridgeshire. The 

 Kev. H. A. Macpherson has a note (with full-page illustra- 

 tion) on the changes of plumage of the Little Gull [Larus 

 minutus) ; while among the interesting occurrences may be 

 mentioned the European form of the Hawk-Owl [Surnia 

 ulula) in Aberdeenshire, and Baillon's Crake {Purzana 

 bailloni) in Caithness. A bird shot in Aberdeenshire, and 

 erroneously recorded as a Little Bustard, is shown in the 

 April number to have been a female of Houbara macqueeni 

 by Mr. W. Eagle Clarke, who has already corrected the de- 

 scriber's error in the ' Bulletin ' of the British Ornithologist's 

 Club (no, Ix. p. xxxvi). Among the occurrences, the most 

 notable is that of a male example of the King-Eider (Soma- 

 teria spectabilis) shot on the west side of Shetland on 

 February 24th ; this bird was exhibited by Mr. Harting at 

 a meeting of the Linnean Society on March 2nd. A speci- 

 men of the Lesser Whitethroat {Sylvia curruca) from the 

 Outer Hebrides and an example of the Scandinavian black- 

 bellied race of the Dipper in Shetland also deserve mention. 



63. Arrigoni degli Oddi on Venetian Ducks. 



[On two Hybrid Ducks in Count Ninni's Collection at Venice. By 

 Dr. E. Arrigoni degli Oddi. Ornis, ix. 1897-98, p. 2-3. 



Ornithological Notes on thirty abnormal-coloured Anatidse caught 

 in the Venetian Territory. By Prof. E. Arrigoni degli Oddi. Op. cit. 

 p. 109.] 



These are two papers on the various ducks of the Venetian 

 lagoons and their crosses and varieties, to which the author, 

 as is well known to our readers, has devoted great attention. 



64. ' The Auk.' 



[The Auk. A Quarterly Journal of Ornithology. Vol. xvi. Nos. 1, 2, 

 January and April 1899.] 



Tlie January number of our transatlantic contemporary 

 opens with a paper by Mr. F. M. Chapman on tlie distribution 



