£78 Recently jnihlisJied Ornitliologicul Worka. 



us the full particulars of their work in the Isle of ]\Iay from 

 September 2iid to October 18th, 1910. Ilolboll's Iledpoll 

 and the Northern Bullfinch were procured after their 

 departure, while the Siberian Chift'chaff, the Wood-Lark, and 

 the Lapland Buntings were also new to the Forth area. 

 Mr. Landsborough Tliomson wi'ites on the Heronries of 

 " Dee" ; he suggests a census of the birds, and ]\Ir. Harvie- 

 lirown comments on the article. Li the " Zoological Notes " 

 ve have again two items of special interest by Mr. Eagle 

 (Maikc — on the birds observed at Fair Isle in 1910, and 

 on Crossbills, Mealy Redpolls, and Bullfinches in Scotland 

 respectively. The new birds observed during the year at 

 Fair Isle were Acanthis e.rilipes, A. linaria holboelli, Parus 

 vuijur, Cygnus Lewicli, Somateria spectab'iUs, rhaJaropus 

 J'n lie a ri us, aud Tutaitns flavipes. The two first and the last 

 are new to Scotland also. 



30. 'Aquila.' 



[Aquila. Zeitsoluift fur Oruithologie. Eedact. Otto Herman. Tom. 

 xvi. Urdd; Tom. xvii. TJlO. Buda-Pest.] 



It is, unfortunately, impossible in our limited space to 

 enter fidlv into all the articles in these two fine volumes of 

 our contemporary; but we may mention the chief of them, 

 which, as usual, treat mainly, though not entirely, of Bird 

 Preservation and Migration. On the first of these subjects 

 Messrs. T. Csorgey and W. Froggatt write of Hungary and 

 Australia respectively, while on the latter w'c find a long 

 series of good papers by such experts as Dr. O. Finsch, 

 Messrs. J. Schenk, K. Hegyfoky, F. Victor, and J. Grescliik. 

 The I'^litor, Mr. Otto Herman, gives us a sketch of the work 

 of the Hungarian Central Ornithological Bureau, and of the 

 Fifth International Congress at Berlin, while he also Avrites 

 an obituarial notice of the late Professor Newton and pulj- 

 Jishes his correspondence Avith the Professor on Bird 

 Protection. Then we have articles on the food of Birds by 

 Messrs. E. Csiki, I. Chernel, and J. Greschik; INIr. D. 

 Lintia gives his experiences during a tour in the Dobrud- 

 scha ; and ]Mr. J. Schenk a report on Bird-marking in 



