BOOK NOTICES 191 



town, Barred Warbler at Dhuheartach, Blue-throated Warbler at the 

 Isle of May, Red -breasted Flycatcher at Monach Isle, Ortolan 

 Bunting in Shetland, Scops Owl in Shetland, Squacco Heron in 

 Mid Lothian, King Duck at St. Andrews, adult Sabine's Gull in 

 Mull and in East Lothian, Ivory Gull in Shetland, Sooty Shearwater 

 at North Berwick, etc. etc. 



In spite, however, of the unfortunate inaccuracies and defects 

 from the Scottish standpoint, the book contains a fund of valuable 

 information, affords a much needed index to the occurrences of 

 rare species recorded in the pages of " The Zoologist " and " The 

 Field," and is a handsome addition to the library of an orni- 

 thologist. 



THE BIRDS OF SIBERIA. A record of a Naturalist's visits to the 

 Valleys of the Petchora and Yenesei. By Henry Seebohm, F.L.S., 

 F.Z.S., F.R.G.S. With Map and Illustrations. (London : John 

 Murray, 1901.) 123. net. 



This volume requires little introduction. It is not, however, a 

 book devoted to the birds of Siberia, as its short title would lead 

 one to expect, but is practically a reprint of the late Mr. Seebohm's 

 two well-known and interesting works entitled respectively, " Siberia 

 in Europe," and " Siberia in Asia," volumes which have long been 

 out of print, are much sought after, and which command exception- 

 ally high prices when found. The book does not appear to have 

 been edited to any appreciable extent, and consequently some 

 errors are perpetuated. A little additional information has been 

 added, chiefly the results of Mr. Leybourne Popham's ornithological 

 successes achieved on the Yenesei. It is a handsome volume and 

 evidently supplies a demand, and that at a very moderate figure. 



CHARLES ST. JOHN'S NOTE BOOKS, 1846-1853: INVERERNE, 

 NAIRN, ELGIN. Edited by Admiral H. C. St. John. (Edinburgh : 

 David Douglas, 1901.) 



This neat little book reproduces the late Charles St. John's 

 journals which he kept during his residence at Invererne near 

 Forres, at Nairn, and at Elgin in the years 1846-1853. Though 

 most of the facts contained in these notes were utilised for the 

 well-known "Natural History and Sport in Moray," a book which 

 is now entirely out of print yet these daily records have a charm of 

 their own which renders them well worthy of reproduction in their 

 original form. A chapter is added on " Life at Rosehall," in Suther- 



