Recently published Ornithological Works. 405 



Mr. E. W, De Winton gave some furtlicr notes on the 

 changes of plumage undergone by the Wading-Birds in the 

 Zoological Gardens ; and the Chairman specially instanced 

 the Spotted Redshank^ a specimen of which had recently 

 gained its full summer-plumage. 



Mr. Trevor-Battye described the nest and eggs of Cyynus 

 bewicki, the nest being composed entirely of moss. 



He also gave some details of the plans for the proposed ex- 

 ploration of Spitsbergen, iu which he was about to take part. 



Dr. R. BowDLER Sharpe sent a description of two appa- 

 rently new species of birds : — 



Chionarchus crozettensis. 

 C. similis C. minori, sed statura minore, pedibus (in cxuvie) 

 saturate rubris, et rostri chlamyde minime elevata vel 

 tuberculata distinguendus. Long. tot. 14'0 poll., alee 

 7-8, tarsi 1-75. 

 Hah. in Insulis Crozettensibus maris Atlautici. 



Garrulus oatesi, sp. n. 

 G. similis G. sinensi, sed facie laterali gulaque albis, et dorso 

 ciuerascente distinguendus. Long. tot. 13 poll., aUe 

 6-85. 

 Hah. in montibus Burmanicis " Chin " dictis. 



XXX VJI. — Notices of recent Ornithological Publications. 

 [Continued from p. 286.] 



69. Annals of Scottish Natural History. Nos. 17 & 18, 

 January and April 1896. 



The principal paper in No. 17 is an elaborate account of 

 the Tufted Duck iu Scotland, by Mr. Harvie-Brown, who 

 has also contributed an article on the subject to vol. xiii. 

 of the Proc. Royal Phys. Soc. of Edinburgh. Dr. John 

 MacRury adds some species to his list of the birds of Barra, 

 and the late Col. Drummond Hay's notes from the Tay 

 district of Perthshire possess a mournful interest. A portrait 

 and a memoir of that excellent ornithologist form the 

 commencement of No. 18; and to this succeeds the first 

 instalment of an important paper on the birds of Berwick- 



