140 Recently jmhlislied Ornithulvgicul Works. 



manner, ^liile liis photographs, which are known to many 

 members of the Union, not only illustrate his te\t and 

 confirm many of his observations, but are works of art in 

 themselves. We must congratulate Mr. Bickerton, as Avell 

 as the publishers, on this exceedingly artistic work, which is 

 also a valuable record of the study of the life-history of one 

 of the most interesting groups of birds in our avifauna. 



Harvie-Brown on the Fahaar. 



[The Fulmar: its Past aud Present Status in tlie Nortk Atlantic and 

 in the Northern Parts of Europe and North America, and some Account 

 of its great Increase in Great Britain. J>v .1. A. Ilarvie-Brown. 

 Zoologist, 1912, pp. 381-38S, 401-410, pi.-, i. & ii. 



The Fulmar : its Past aud Present Disti-ibution as a Breedino- Species 

 in the British Isles. By J. A. Ilarvie-Brown. Scottish Naturalist, 1912, 

 pp. 97-102, 121-132, pi. iv. niapO 



As many of oiir readers are doubtless aware, the Fulmar 

 has extended its breeding-range aiul l)ecouie mucli more 

 numerous of late years about our northern coasts. In the 

 two papers quoted, INIr. Harvie-Brown lias very carefully put 

 together all the records and evidence at his disposal of this 

 extension of range, and has plotted it down on an excellent 

 map, of which two editions are given in the May aud June 

 numbers of the ' Scottish Naturalist.' 



The Fulmar has been known on St. Kilda for over two 

 hundred and fifty years, but it did not appear at the Faroe 

 Islands until 1839. The earliest date for the Shetlands is 

 1878, when it commenced to breed on Foula ; for the 

 Orkneys 1900, and for the Clomore Cliffs near Cape AVraith 

 1897; on the Flannan Isles, outli(>rs of the Hebrides, one 

 was observed in 1885, but it was abundant in 1902, while 

 in the past two years (1910 and 1911) it has reached the 

 cliflPs of Ulster and MayO;, in Ireland, respectively. 



Mr. Harvie-Brown comments on these remarkable facts, 

 and suggests that this extension of breeding-range has been 

 probably caused by " congestion at its more northerly 

 breeding-stations," and draws attention to the relationship 

 between dispersal and migration which, he believes, may 

 thn)w some light on the latter pheuomenon. 



