330 Recently pubHshed Oraitholoyical Works. [Ibis, 



Indian Ocean and under French protection, to be made a 

 national preserve and park for Antarctic bird-life. 



M. Menegaux also writes ou a collection of birds made by 

 M. Mocquerys in the Brazilian State of Matto Grosso con- 

 sisting of representatives of 85 species, and Drs. Bouet and 

 Millet-Horsin conclude their account of the birds of the 

 Ivoiy coast of French West Africa. 



In a little note on p. 64 will be found an important 

 "ringing result." An example of Diomedea chionoptera, 

 ringed 21 December, 1913, by M. Loranchet at Kerguelen, 

 was captured by Captain Libouban of the sailing-ship 

 'A. D. Bordes' on 19 December, 1916, off Cape Horn, 

 proving that sometimes at least Albatrosses traverse 

 immense distances. From Kerguelen to Cape Horn must 

 be at least 8000 miles. 



M. Coursimault completes his enumeration of the singing- 

 birds of Vendome with their notes reduced to a musical 

 scale, which has been running through several volumes ; 

 M. R. Deschiens sends a contribution to the study of the 

 local distribution of shoi'e and coast birds, grouping them 

 according to their habits of life ; M. E. Anfrie has prepared 

 a list of colour-variations and abnormal specimens among 

 the examples preserved in his large collection; and, finallv, 

 M. Brasil corrects a former statement of his in regard 

 to the generic name of the Madagascar Sun-Bittern which 

 he formerly believed to be Mesites Isid. Geoffr. St. Hil., 

 April 1838. It has now been pointed out to him by 

 Dr. F. A. Bather that this name is preoccupied by Mesites 

 Schonherr, January 1838, proposed for a genus of Weevils, 

 and that the correct generic name for the Sun-Bittern is 

 Mesoeiias Reichenbach 1850. 



The Scottish Naturalist . 



[The Scottish Naturalist. A Monthly Magaziiie devoted to Zoology. 

 Vol. for 1917 ; 12 number^.] 



The principal contributors in ornithology to the •' Scot- 

 tish Naturalist ' of the past year are undoubtedly the 

 Misses Baxter and Rintoul. The whole of the July-August 



