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this species, presented very many years ago to the British 

 Museum by James Burton, the distinguished Egyptologist, 

 came, in all likelihood, from the Eastern Desert about the 

 latitude of Keneh. 



Eremias guttulata, Licht. 



Three specimens. This species is distributed all over 

 Egypt, from Suez to Suakin. 



Psammophis Schokari, Forskal. 



This specimen, in its almost pale fawn-colour and the 

 presence of two darker-coloured lines along the back and the 

 obscure dotting of the ventrals, especially on the sides, and 

 distinct head-markings, resembles the individuals of this 

 species found at Durrur to the south. The number of its 

 ventrals (190) largely exceeds the number found there and at 

 Suakin, and in this respect it conforms to snakes of this 

 species found at Assuan. It lias 118 caudals. 



BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 



Bird Books. 



In Bird-land, with Field-glass and Camera. By Oliver G. Pike. 



T. Fisher Unwin & Co. Pp. 1-280, with 83 photographs from 



Nature. 1900. Price 6s. 

 The Birds of Eastern North America. By Charles Cory. Printed 



for the Field Columbian Museum, Chicago, 111. 1899. Parts 



I., II. 



The strides which photography has made among us of late years 

 we regard with a jealous eye. Not satisfied with ousting the 

 beautiful wood and steel engravings which adorned the pages of 

 our older books, it has gone now so far as to displace literature 

 itself, so that many of the " books " which are thrust upon a long- 

 suffering and defrauded public to-day are practically little more 

 than collections of bad pictures served up with a sprinkling of worse 

 text — added for appearance' sake. 



To every rule, however, there are exceptions ; and there are 

 occasions when we feel real gratitude towards the enthusiastic 

 photographer. 



Ornithologists are without doubt indebted to the Kearton brothers 

 for the work which they have done and recorded in this field. The 



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