Recently published Ornithological Works. 453 



XXXV. — Notices of recent Ornithological Publications. 



[Continued from p. 286.] 



62. Annals of Scottish Natural History. Nos. 21 & 22, 

 January and April 1897. 



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

 ■which is incorporated ' The Scottish Naturalist.' No. 21, January 1897, 

 and No. 22, April 1897.] 



In No. 21, and after an interval of nine months, Mr. Bolam 

 contributes his second instalment of a paper on the birds 

 of Berwick-on-Tweed, and the third appears in No. 22. 

 The Rev. H. A. Macpherson gives particulars respecting 

 four examples from Kirkcudbrightshire illustrating the rare 

 hybridism between the Red Grouse and the Black Grouse. 

 Sir Herbert Maxwell records the earliest instance known of 

 the nesting of the Great Crested Grebe on the White Loch of 

 Myrton, in Wigtownshire, and mentions other birds which 

 frequent that sanctuary. Among the notes, a second Scottish 

 example of the Barred Warbler (Sylvia nisoria) is recorded, 

 this time from Dhu Heartach Lighthouse, Argyllshire, where 

 it was found dead on the morning of September 9th last. 

 In No. 22 Mr. W. E. Clarke gives further particulars of the 

 occurrence of Pelagodroma marina at Colonsay, on the west 

 side of Scotland, as already recorded in the ' Bulletin ■* of tlie 

 B.O.C. (c/. Ibis, supra, p. 262) ; while several interesting 

 species are mentioned among the notes. 



63. ' The Auk; January and April, 1897. 



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

 January & April, 1897.] 



The last words of our previous notice [supra, p. 120) were 

 expressive of satisfaction at the attention which Paljearctic 

 birds were receiving in America, and now the second paper 

 in the January number of ' The Auk '' is an essay by Mr. F. 

 E. L. Beal on the food of the Starling, the Rook, and the 

 Wood-Pigeon, based upon reports from Dr. Hollrung, at 

 Halle, and Mr. John Gilmour, in Scotland. The food of the 

 Rook is compared with that of the American Crow ; the two 



