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Somatochlora arctica, Zett., in the Spey district, and at 

 Guisachan, Strathglass. In furtherance of Mr Blackwood's 

 note in the September number of the Scottish Naturalist, I may 

 mention that I captured a fine female of the above in a clearing 

 above Nethy Bridge, on 3rd August 191 1. I kept a good look- 

 out for the species this season, but was not fortunate enough to 

 see it. 



On 31st July 1899 I caught a male of the species at Guisachan, 

 near the locality which Dr Buchanan White indicated to me. 

 James J. F.-X. King, Glasgow. 



BOOK NOTICES 



Animal Geography : the Faunas of the Natural Regions of 

 the GLOBE. By Marion I. Newbigin, D.Sc.(Lond.). Oxford : 

 Clarendon Press, 1913. Price 4s. 6d. 



This useful and instructive volume treats the important subject of 

 zoogeography in an interesting and novel fashion, for in its various 

 chapters the faunas are treated from a more purely geographical point of 

 view than has been the fashion of late. Out of ten chapters forming the 

 work only one deals with the well-known zoogeographical regions first 

 defined by P. L. Sclater and afterwards adopted by Alfred Russel 

 Wallace. The other chapters are devoted to an account of the physical 

 aspects and faunal features of the tundra, the taiga or coniferous forest, 

 steppes, mountains, tropical forests, tropical savannas and deserts, islands, 

 seas, lakes, and rivers. An appendix furnishes the non-zoological reader 

 with an outline classification of animals which will prove of great service. 

 The illustrations, of which there are about fifty, are good and carefully 

 selected, and the typography excellent. We can cordially recommend 

 this volume as an excellent summary of a fascinating subject. 



The Peregrine Falcon at the Eyrie. By Francis Heatherley, 

 F.R.C.S. With photographs by the author and C. S. King. 

 London: Country Life Offices, 1913. Price 10s. 6d. net. 



Mr Heatherley has written a monograph on the peregrine falcon 

 which is a most interesting contribution to ornithological literature. The 

 life of the peregrine is described from start to finish, and the reader of 

 the book is left in full possession of every detail of the falcon's modus 

 vivendi. Beginning from 7th April, when one egg was found in the 



