Recently published Ornithological Works. 1 1 9 



and mentioned, as some of the more interesting birds lie had 

 noticed there, the Snow-Bunting, the Purple Sandpiper, the 

 Ivory Gull, and BufiFon's Skua. An example of the Spits- 

 bergen Ptarmigan {Lagopus hemileuciirus) had been shot by- 

 one of the party while they were in Ice Fiord, but the bird 

 was stated to be rare there. 



The Rev. H. A. Macpherson exhibited two interesting 

 hybrids of Lagopus scoticus and Tetrao tetrix. 



Colonel L'EsTRANGE drew attention to some of the points 

 relating to the law as it affected bird-catching. 



X . — Notices of recent Ornithologibal Publications. 



1. Annals of Scottish Natural History, Nos. 19 & 20, 

 July and October, 1896. 



In No. 19 Mr. Lionel W. Hinxman reports on "^the Mi- 

 gration and Occurrences of Birds in Scotland during 1895/^ 

 and expresses his regret at the falling off in the number of 

 schedules sent in for that year — only 20 having been received 

 as compared with 36 for 1894. From Barra three species 

 not hitherto identified in the Outer Hebrides are now recorded. 

 Mr. William Evans, as well as Mr. T. E. Buckley, add to 

 our previous knowledge of the breeding-range of the Tufted 

 Duck {Fuligula cristata) in Scotland, and both these autho- 

 rities likewise show that the Pochard (F. ferina) has nested 

 in Fife, and even in Hoy, Orkney ; while the Rev. H. A. 

 Macpherson discourses of Harelda glacialis in the Solway 

 Firth. In No. 20 Mr. R. Godfrey has an interesting paper 

 on the birds observed last summer in Shetland, wherein he 

 shows that the Great Skua is extending its breeding-area, 

 and the same may be said of the Fulmar. Mr. W. Evans 

 has identified the Roseate Tern and an adult example of 

 Sabine's Gull in the Firth of Forth ; a Roller was obtained 

 in Orkney in June ; and Mr. T. E. Buckley reports a Green- 

 land Falcon from Skye on the 26th of May. 



