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President from 1909. It is to be hoped that his valuable 
collections of Birds* eggs. Birds, and Insects will find a 
permanent home there. 
Millar made many excursions to Zululand, and further 
north on the East Coast, hunting and collecting, and his 
house was stored with the spoils taken on these excursions. 
We are indebted to Mr. E. C. Chubb, the Curator of the 
Durban Museum, for some newspapers containing an account 
of his life. Mr. Chubb also informs me that he hopes to be 
able to acquire for the Durban Museum, Millar's Collection 
of Birds* Eggs, which consists of about 2500 eggs forming 
617 clutches, 74 of the latter belonging to species of which 
the eggs are at present nndescribed. 
Millar’s early and premature death is a sad loss to South 
African Ornithology and Entomology, good field-observers 
being few and far between in that part of the world. 
W. L. S. 
XXXII.— Notices of recent Ornithological Publications. 
[Continued from p. 573.] 
81. 4 Annals of Scottish Natural History .’ 
[The Annals of Scottish Natural History. A Quarterly Magazine, 
with which is incorporated the ‘ Scottish Naturalist.’ April, July, 
1911.] 
In the first of these numbers the chief interest centres in 
two species of birds new to the Scottish List, one of which 
(.Acrocephalus dumetorum) is also new to Western Europe. 
It was observed by the Duchess of Bedford on Fair Isle in 
September 1910, and subsequently secured. The other 
(.Locustella lanceolata) has only been recorded twice from 
Western Europe—in Lincolnshire and on Heligoland ; the 
present example is from the Pentland Skerries. 
Mr. B. Clyne reports on the rock-breeding birds of the Butt 
of Lewis, but has nothing very striking to relate, and Mr. H. 
B. Watt has four pages of additions and corrections to his 
