Recently published Ornithological Works. 199 
counties of Argyll and Aberdeen. Examples of the Golden 
Oriole, a very rare wanderer to Scotland, occurred in the 
Solway area at the end of April, and in Clackmannanshire on 
the 19th of May. In the October number, Col. J ohn Campbell 
records the recent increase of the Stock-Dove and of four 
species of Ducks in the Tay area, and discusses the reasons 
assignable for the decrease of other birds. Lt.-Col. L. H. Irby 
follows with a short but very useful paper containing com¬ 
parative lists of the birds found on Coll and Tiree, islands 
which are not far apart, but differ in natural conditions, and 
consequently in their avifaunas. Mr. Harvie-Brown repro¬ 
duces Mr. Heatley Noble^s account of the nesting of the 
Scaup-Duck in Sutherland, with some remarks; and a few 
interesting occurrences are recorded among the minor 
notices. 
3. Arrigoni degli Oddi on rare Italian Birds. 
[Elenco degli Uccelli rari o piti difficili ad aversi conservati nella sua 
Collezione Ornitologica Italiana al 31 Dicembre, 1898. Pel Prof. 
Ettore Arrigoni degli Oddi. ‘ Ornis,’ ix. p. 199.] 
Professor Arrigoni describes some of the choice specimens 
of his collection of Italian birds at Ca’ Oddo, near Monselice, 
formed since 1883, and containing at present some 4500 
specimens. Among the 179 species enumerated are ex¬ 
amples of Nyctala tengmalmi , Muscicapa parva, Turdus 
fuscatus,Dvomolcea leucura, Motacilla lugubris , Melanocorypha 
sibirica, Emberiza cassia , and Cygnus musicus. There are 2 
specimens of Larus genei \L. gelastes\ from the Italian penin¬ 
sula, and an example of Colymbus glacialis from the Lago di 
Garda. Porphyrio caruleus is stated to occur regularly in the 
marshes round the Lake of Lesina in Tuscany. 
4. f The Auk. 3 
[The Auk. A Quarterly Journal of Ornithology. Vol. xvi. Nos. 3 
and 4, July and October, 1899.] 
The coloured plate in the former of these numbers contains 
figures of the first plumages of Dendroica cororiata and Icteria 
virens to illustrate a paper on sequence of plumages by 
