Recently published OrnWwloy'ical Works. 753 



President from 1909. It is to be hoped that liis valuable 

 collections of Birds' eggs. Birds, and Insects will find a 

 permanent home there. 



Millar made many excursions to Zulnland, and further 

 north on the East Coast, hunting and collecting, and his 

 house was stored with the spoils taken on these excursions. 

 We are indebted to Mr. E. C. Chubb, the Curator of the 

 Durban Museum, for some newspapers containing an account 

 oE his life. INIr. Chubb also informs me that he hopes to be 

 able to acquire for the Durban Museum, Millar's Collection 

 of Birds' Eggs, which consists of about 2500 eggs forming 

 617 clutches, 74 of the latter belonging to species of which 

 the eggs are at present undescribed. 



Millar's early and premature death is a sad loss to South 

 African Ornithology and Entomology, good field-observers 

 being few and far between iu that part of the world. 



W. L. S. 



XXXII. — Notices of recent Ornithological Publications. 



[Contiuued from p. o7.3.] 

 81. ' Annals of Scottish Natural History.' 



[The Annals of Scottish Natural History. A (Quarterly ^Magazine, 

 with which is incorporated the ' Scottish Naturalist.' April, July, 

 1911.] 



In the first of these numbers the chief interest centres in 

 two species of birds new to the Scottish List, one of which 

 (Acrocephalus dumetormn) is also new to Western Europe. 

 It was observed by the Duchess of Bedford on Fair Isle in 

 September 1910, and subsequently secured. The other 

 [Locustella lanceolata) has only been recorded twice from 

 Western Europe — in Lincolnshire and on Heligoland ; the 

 present example is from the Pentland Skerries. 



Mr. R. Clyiie reportson the rock-breeding birds of the Butt 

 of Lewis, but has nothing very striking to relate, and Mr. II. 

 B. Watt has four pages of additions and corrections to his 



