Recently published Ornithological Works. 677 
Raptores to the Italian avifauna. A young male Aguila 
rapax was shot in November 1898, at Stagno di Cagliari in 
Sardinia; and a young female Buteo desertorum was ob¬ 
tained in the flesh in the market of Foggia in February 
1899, so that there could be no doubt of its having been 
shot in the neighbourhood. Full descriptions of both the 
specimens are given. 
105. Barrington on the Migration of Birds at Irish Light- 
Stations. 
[The Migration of Birds as observed at Irish Lighthouses and Light¬ 
ships, including the Original Reports from 1888-97, now published for 
the first time, and an Analysis of these and the previously published 
Reports from 1881-87; together with an Appendix giving the measure¬ 
ments of about 1600 Wings. By Richard M. Barrington. Pp. 285 
Analysis, pp. 660 Reports. London, R. H. Porter; Dublin, Edward 
Ponsonby, 1900.] 
It is hardly necessary to remind our readers that Reports 
on the Migration of Birds as observed at Light-stations in 
the United. Kingdom were published by a Committee of 
the British Association from 1881-87 inclusive, after which 
they were discontinued, and the preparation of a digest was 
entrusted to Mr. W. Eagle Clarke, who completed his task in 
1896. Reference to f The Ibis ’ for 1897, p. 272, will show our 
high appreciation of the manner in which he performed this 
onerous work. After 1887 it appears to have been considered 
that enough had been done, and, at all events, no further 
schedules were issued from the Association ; but Mr. Barring¬ 
ton held different views, and was of the opinion that no digest 
could yield satisfactory results unless it were based upon 
a much longer series of years. He has, accordingly, con¬ 
tinued, at great personal expense, the issue of schedules 
to the Light-stations of Ireland for ten years longer, with 
the result that not merely bald, and often unsatisfying, 
records have been furnished by the light-keepers, but, in 
addition, over two thousand specimens of birds—or wings 
and feet of birds—have been forwarded to him, leading to 
very important identifications. Among these may be men¬ 
tioned the Woodchat Shrike ( Lanius pomeranus) , unique 
