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of Donegal, and also some notes on other rare birds taken 

 or seen at various Irish lights, including the Icterine 

 Warbler at Tuskar, only once before recorded from Ireland. 



Scottish Naturalist. 



[The Scottish Naturalist. Nos. 37-48, Jan.-Dec, 1915. Edinburgh.] 



Most of the ornithological articles in the ' Scottish 

 Naturalist ' for the past year are, as usual, from the pen 

 of the indefatigable editor, Mr. Eagle Clarke. A short note 

 in the January number records the capture of the Aquatic 

 Warbler (Acrocephalus aquaticus) in Fair Isle on the 

 previous October 23. It has never before been obtained 

 in Scotland and only twice in Ireland, and is of course a 

 rare straggler in England. Another note introduces a new 

 *' British Bird,""^ Calandrella hrachydactxjla longipennis, the 

 Eastern Short-toed Lark. This form was also taken on 

 Fair Isle in November 1907, but remained unidentified 

 until recently. It does not seem to have been hitherto 

 noticed in Europe and is a native of Central Asia from 

 Transcaspia to Tibet. A review of the migratory birds 

 observed at Fair Isle, from the notes of Mr. Jerome Wilson 

 the " observer '-' and of the Duchess of Bedford, shows that 

 126 species visited the Isle on migration during the year, 

 and that 225 species had been altogether recorded from this 

 tiny spot. In addition to the two birds already mentioned, 

 Serinus serinus and Syrrhaptes paradoxus were added to the 

 list in 1914. 



Mr. Clarke's other contribution deals with the St. Kilda 

 Wren {Troglodytes t. hirtensis), which he has ample oppor- 

 tunity of observing in its native island. He completes the 

 description of some of the plumages and gives us an 

 account of its haunts, song, and food. 



The " Report on Scottish Ornithology for 1914" by the 

 Misses Baxter and Rentoul, usually separately published, 

 is printed in the July number of the ' Scottish Naturalist.' 

 It is as usual a most careful piece of work and summarizes 

 all the additions made to our knowledge of the Scottish 



