Recently published Ornithological Works. 179 
XXVI.—Notices of recent Ornithological Publications. 
(Continued from p. 365, | 
48. ‘ Annals of Scottish Natural History. 
(The Annals of Scottish Natural History. Nos. 61 & 62, January and 
April 1907. ] 
Mr. W. Eagle Clarke begins the annual volume with details 
of the acquisition of an example of the Siberian Chiffchaff 
(Phylloscopus tristris) at the Sule Skerry lighthouse, 33 miles 
west of Orkney, on the night of September 23rd, 1902. 
Having been sent in methylated spirits, this addition to the 
list of wanderers to the British Islands was not immediately 
examined and identified. Mr. Norman Bb. Kinnear (a grand- 
son, we believe, of that distinguished naturalist Sir William 
Jardine) follows with the first portion of some notes on the 
Birds seen in the Outer Hebrides during the spring of 1906, 
of which the conclusion is given in the April number (pp. 81— 
85). The identification, by the author and his companion 
Mr. Bahr, of a solitary Ptarmigan on the low-lying portion of 
South Uist, recalls the statement of John MacGillivray in 
1841 that the species was then found in that island on Ben 
More and Hecla; in fact, as we are now told, birds were seen on * 
the latter as recently as 1900. Of considerable interest is a 
paper by Mr. J. Tomison, Principal Light-keeper at Skerry- 
vore, on the birds observed at that dangerous reef ; but the 
duplication of the record of the Yellow-browed Warbler 
(p. 25 and p. 51) may involve some compiler in confusion. 
The April number also contains Mr. Eagle Clarke’s second 
paper on the birds of Fair Isle, and the merits of that 
small and detached spot as an observatory are extolled ; but 
the Red-rumped Swallow and other rarities have been already 
enumerated in his first paper as well as noticed in our pages 
(supra, p. 198). In the Zoological Notes, Mr. E. 'T. Clarke, a 
taxidermist of Cheltenham, records a pair of Rustic Buntings 
sent to him from Learney, Torphins, Aberdeenshire, as long 
ago as April 9th, 1905, but unchronicled till now. In Ben- 
becula, Outer Hebrides, an American Wigeon was shot on 
