550 Recently published Ornithological JVorks. 



84. Salvadori on Pucrasia ruficollis. 



[Nota interna alia Pucrasia n{/iconis David et Oust. By Count T. 

 Salvadori. Eepiiuted from Roll. Mas. Zool. ed Auat. Torino, vol. xxvii. 

 no. 647.] 



The author, having received among some specimens from 

 the Italian Missionaries of Chensi in China a male bird of 

 the genus Pncrasia, finds that it agrees with the description 

 given by David and Oustalet of Pucrasia ,vanthospila var. 

 rvficol/is, while he considers that it should stand as a species 

 and not as a subspecies. A key is given to the three species 

 P. ruficollis, P. xanthospila, and P. daruini. 



85. • Scottish Xatural/st.' 



[The Scotti^h Naturalist, with which is incorporated * The Annals of 

 Scottish Natural History/ March, April, May 1912.] 



In the first of these numbers our energetic coadjutors 

 Misses Baxter and Rintoul record their observations on 

 Migration in the Isle of ]\Iay during a month in the spring 

 and autumn of 191 1, respectively. The greatest rushes of 

 birds were on May 8 and May 27, and many scarce birds 

 were obtained, including continental forms of some British 

 species, while Phylloscopus trochilus eversmanni and Culcarius 

 lapponicus may be mentioned in particular. Notes by Messrs. 

 W. Evans and Baigrie arc incorporated. 



In the April part the influx of Little Auks in the winter 

 of 1911-12 is discussed by the Editors; ]\Ir. H. N. Bonar 

 writes on the trees used by the Great Spotted Woodpecker 

 for breeding purposes; and Mr. A. L. Thomson gives the 

 first record of the finding of a Sandwich Tern's nest in 

 " Dee," at the Sands of Forvie. 



In May Mr. Harvie-Brown begins a paper on the past 

 and present distribution of the Fulmar as a breeding species 

 in the British Isles, and traces its course from the Slietlands 

 to the Orkney group. This paper is part of a full account 

 of the bird, to be jjublished subsequently, and is to be 

 taken as a preliminary instalment, to which — and to the 

 accompanying map — additions or corrections may possibly 

 be made. Mr. Ea^le Clarke follows with an article on the 



