576 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



C. acadica, and is named after Mr. Ridgway, in remembrance 

 of his recent visit to that republic (see above, p. 396) . It is 

 from the high mountains of Costa Rica. The type is in the 

 U.S. National Museum. 



60. c Annals of Scottish Natural History. 3 



[The Annals of Scottish Natural History. Nos. 57 & 58. January and 

 April 190b".] 



Mr. W. Eagle Clarke's account of his residence of five 

 weeks on Fair Isle at the time of the autumn migration forms 

 one of the most interesting papers that has appeared in our 

 contemporary. Fair Isle, situated about halfway between 

 the northernmost of the Orkneys and the extreme south of 

 Shetland, is described as " a surpassingly good station for 

 observations, perhaps second to none in Scotland." We 

 will not enumerate the rarities among the fifty-six species of 

 birds recorded, nor shall we attempt to give any abstract of 

 Mr. Clarke's remarks, which will be found on pp. 4-21 and 

 pp. 69-80. His companion, Mr. Norman B. Kinnear, has a 

 short paper on the mammals of this rarely visited island. 



The Ornithological Notes contain, among other interesting 

 matter, corroboration of the hitherto questionable occurrence 

 of the Blackcap in West Ross-shire ; also, full confirmation 

 of the breeding of the Pintail Duck in Shetland, about which 

 there had been little moral doubt for some years, though it was 

 not proven absolutely. According to Mr. Clarke, Shetland 

 was visited last autumn by quite a number of Bullfinches be- 

 longing to the large North-European and Siberian form known 

 as Pyrrhula major. As recorded by Mr. H. W. Robinson, 

 an adult female of Somateria spectabilis — far rarer than the 

 male — was obtained off Graemsay, Orkney, on February 21st, 

 and an adult male of CEdemia perspicillata was watched inside 

 Stromness Harbour in December. — H. S. 



61. 'The Auk.' 



[The Auk. A Quarterly Journal of Ornithology. Vol. xxii. Nos. 1 & 2, 

 January and April 1906.] 



A List of the Birds of Louisiana, by Messrs. Beyer, 

 Allison, and Kopman, opens the January number, and as 



