198 Recently published Ornithological Works. 
Halcyon coromandus Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xvii. p. 217 
(1892). 
The Ruddy Kingfisher inhabits the lakes and rivers of the 
interior of Formosa. 
[To be continued. | 
VII.—WNotices of recent Ornithological Publications. 
1. ¢ Annals of Scottish Natural History, 
[The Annals of Scottish Natural History. Nos. 59 & 60, July and 
October 1906. | 
The first paper on our subject is by Mr. W. Eagle Clarke, 
who enumerates and remarks upon the rare visitants which 
occurred at Scottish observation-stations in the first half of 
1906. These are the Rustic Bunting, the Desert-Wheatear, 
the Ortolan Bunting, and an example of the remarkably 
grey Asiatic race of the Skylark. In the October number 
My. Clarke records a new visitor to Great Britain, namely, 
the Red-rumped Swallow (Hirundo rufula), cbserved at Fair 
Isle on June 2nd in a party of Common Swallows and 
picked up dead some ten days afterwards. An example of 
this southern species was obtained at Heligoland on May 30th, 
1855, and had doubtless overshot the mark on the spring- 
migration, as in the present case. It may be noted that 
under the name H. daiirica Prof. R. Collett has recorded the 
occurrence of a closely-allied—or perhaps even the same— 
species at Syd Varanger on May 31st, 1905. Later (p. 236), 
as the result of a very recent visit to Fair Isle, Mr. Clarke 
and his companion Mr. Kinnear record, among other rarities, 
the Scarlet Grosbeak, the Red-breasted Flycatcher, the Little 
and Ortolan Buntings, the Yellow-browed Warbler, and— 
for the first time in Scotland—the Reed-Warbler. 
Since this was written, Mr. Clarke has exhibited at the 
British Ornithologists’ Club an example of Phylloscopus 
tristis from Suliskerry (26th Sept., 1902), also new to the 
British avifauna (cf. Bull. B. O. C. xix. p. 18). Mr. John 
