730 Recently published Ornithological Works. 
X XXV.— Notices of recent Ornithological Publications. 
[Continued from p. 565.] 
73. ( Annals of Scottish Natural History.’ 
[The Annals of Scottish Natural History. A Quarterly Magazine, 
with which is incorporated the 1 Scottish Naturalist.’ April, July, 1910.] 
Fair Isle continues to hold its own as a field for the 
northern ornithologist and the student of migration, while it 
appeals to us all strongly as an outpost towards the boreal 
regions. We are, therefore, always glad to read Mr. Eagle 
Clarke's annual reports, of which the fifth is in the April 
number of this magazine. He promises us a separate and 
full account of the birds of the Isle shortly, and meanwhile 
recounts as new for 1909 the following six species :—Cross¬ 
bill (‘Annals/ 1909, p. 215; 1910, p. 54), White-spotted 
Bluethroat, Pink-footed, Bernacle, and Brent Geese, and Grey 
Phalarope. The Crossbills appear to be representatives of a 
slender-billed race from the far north of Europe and Siberia. 
With regard to the record of the breeding of the White 
Wagtail, we may draw attention to that of Mr. J. H. Dixon 
in his work on ‘ Gairloch in Boss-shire/ The White-spotted 
Bluethroat has never before been obtained in Scotland, and 
only on three occasions elsewhere in Britain. 
Other communications to the April number are those of 
Mr. II. B. Watt on Scottish Heronries, with additions to and 
corrections of his former paper (1908, p. 218), and of Mr. 
H. S. Gladstone on a specimen of the American Bittern shot 
at Loch Martnaham in Dumfriesshire in 1898, the newspaper 
report of which he finds in a scrap-book of the late Sir William 
Jardine, belonging >to Mr. Harvie-Brown, who called his 
attention to the entry. Finally, Mr. W. Evans, in reference 
to his note (‘ Annals/ 1899, p. 14) on the supposed eggs of the 
Wood-Sandpiper taken near Elgin by Mr. Thurnall in 1853, 
quotes from letters of Sir Edward Newton to Professor Alfred 
Newton, which clearly shew that the finder was mistaken in 
his identification of the eggs. In the f Zoological Notes ’ we 
should mention those on Crossbills from the north-east coast 
and on the Great Spotted Woodpecker by Mr. Haivie-Brown; 
