BOOK NOTICES 23 



Messrs Harvie-Brown and Buckley. Many areas have been 

 treated of, but " Tweed " was one of the few remaining desiderata 

 — an important one too, for it is the only volume dealing with the 

 Fauna of south-eastern Scotland. 



Tweed is an attractive and diversified area — embracing 

 highlands, lowlands, fine river valleys, and a varied coast-line 

 extending from St Abb's Head to and including the well-known 

 Fame Islands. Mr Evans is to be congratulated on having 

 completed a most useful and interesting piece of zoogeographical 

 work, which is in every respect up to the standard of the best of its 

 predecessors in the series. From his researches we learn that the 

 vertebrates included within the scope of the work amount to 

 45 mammals, including species extinct within the historic period; 

 263 birds, counting doubtful records; 3 reptiles and 5 amphibians. 

 We regret that the freshwater fishes have been omitted, for the 

 Salmonidae of the Tweed basin are especially interesting, and a 

 summary of the views held regarding them would have been most 

 acceptable. We are glad, however, to hear that the author is 

 preparing such a list for publication. As regards the birds, we 

 do not find much about their migrations, and yet there were 

 voluminous data available, for the Fame Islands furnished 

 much information to the British Association Committee for- the 

 years 1880 to 1887 inclusive. The introduction, bibliography, and 

 topographical description are excellent, and add greatly to the 

 value of a handsome and acceptable volume. The illustrations are 

 numerous, and beautifully reproduced, and the general get up, 

 like that of the rest of the series, leaves nothing to be desired. 



The Life of the Common Gull told in Photographs, by 

 C. Rubow. London: Witherby & Co., 191 1 ; is. 6d. net. 



This book is composed of series of photographs which depict the 

 life of the Common Gull (Larus canus). It is impossible to speak 

 too highly of these nature-pictures, which afford such excellent peeps 

 at the varied life-phases of this well-known bird. The text 

 supplies a readable little sketch of its habits, and supplies in 

 writing what cannot be expressed in the pictures. The book is 

 a welcome addition to an already remarkable series. — G. G. M. 



Life in the Sea, by J. Johnstone; and Primitive Animals, by 

 Geoffrey Smith, M.A. Cambridge University Press {The Cam- 

 bridge Manuals of Science and Literature) ; price is. each. 



The first of these little manuals differs in point of view from 

 the majority of the accounts of marine life. Here there is no 



