552 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



Scops longicornis, sp. n. 

 Similis S. pennato, sed tarsis imis nudis et coruibus 

 plumosis longissimis {\'o poll.) distinguenda. Long, 

 tot. 8 poll. J alse 5*6. 



Mr. Henry Seebolim describes a new Blackbird as 



Merula thomassonIj sp. n. 

 M. similis M. papuensi, sed multo minor (long, alse 4*75 

 poll., caudse 3' 75) et saturatior, dorso, alis, caudaque 

 nigris, minime brunneis ; pileo undique, gutture et prse- 

 pectore totis nigro-fumosis. 



LIII. — Notices of recent Ornithological Publications. 



[Continued horn p. 447.] 



70. Adair on the Short-eared Owl and Kestrel in the 

 Vole-plague Districts of Scotland. 



[The Short-eared Owl {Asio accipitrinus, 'P&W&s) and the Kestrel {Falco 

 tinnimcidus, Linn.) in the Vole Plague Districts. By Peter Adair. 

 Ann. Scottish Nat. Hist. i. p. 219, 1892.] 



That " there is no wrong without a remedy " is a maxim in 

 Nature as well as in Law. The abnormal increase of Voles in 

 the Border-counties of Scotland has been followed by an 

 equally abnormal development of the numbers of the Short- 

 eared Owl and Kestrel — its two principal enemies in our 

 avifauna. Upwards of 300 nests of this Owl (usually a mere 

 bird of passage) were recorded in the " Vole-infested area ^' 

 in 1892, and the Kestrel was " constantly in sight, some- 

 times several at once.^^ 



71. Andersen on the Occurrence of Ligurinus sinicus in 

 Denmark. 



■ [Liffurifius sinicm i Denmark. Af Knud Andersen. Vidensk. Meddel. 

 fra den naturh. Foren. i. Kbhvn. 1893, p. 166.] 



This paper (of which a German translation has been given 

 in a recent number of the ' Ornithologische INiittheilungen/ 

 1894!, p. 74) records the addition of a new Eastern species to 

 the European list. In November 1892 an example of the 

 Chinese Green-finch {Ligurinus sinicus) was captured alive 



