Recently published Ornithological Works. 199 
Paterson’s careful Report on Scottish Ornithology for 1905 
(pp. 140-150, 196-205) contains many other allusions to the 
birds of Fair Isle, and, judging from the number of acknow- 
ledgments for assistance, there can be no lack of co- 
Operation in making returns. Among the interesting 
records under “ Zoological Notes” we notice the southward 
extension of the breeding-range of the Fulmar Petrel, as 
well as the nesting of the Grey Lag-Goose in the Tay 
area.—H. S. 
2. Arrigoni degli Oddi on Fuligula homeyeri. 
[Nuove osservazioni sulla cattura della Fuligula homeyeri Baed. nel 
Veneto. Boll. d. Soc. Zool. Ital. 1906.] 
The author writes upon the Diving Duck called Fuligula 
homeyeri, which is generally acknowledged to be a hybrid 
between the Common Pochard (F. ferina) and the Ferru- 
ginous Duck (F. nyroca), and gives us particulars concerning 
three specimens of it that have occurred in Northern Italy. 
He enumerates the examples of this bird known to him in 
various collections—fourteen in all. 
3. ‘The Auk’ 
[The Auk. A Quarterly Journal of Ornithology. Vol. xxii. Nos. 3 & 4, 
July and October 1906. ] 
Mr. Witmer Stone records his view of a continuous 
migration of birds during the night of March 27th, when 
the sky was lighted up by a tremendous conflagration at 
Philadelphia ; the birds—mainly Finches —following a line 
parallel to the Delaware River, and, in some cases, getting 
burned onthe way. The same author furnishes an important 
Bibliography and Nomenclator of the Ornithological Works 
of Audubon (pp. 298-312), and later (pp. 361-368) three 
unpublished letters of Alexander Wilson, with one from John 
Abbot to George Ord, written from Georgia in 1814 and 
specially interesting. Far more important, however, is 
Mr. Ruthven Deane’s second instalment of the correspond- 
ence between Audubon and Spencer I’. Baird, from 1840 to 
1842. Mr. E. 8. Cameron, M.B.O.U., contributes a pleasant 
