Recently published Ornitholoyical )Vorks. 757 



84. Beetham on the Practical Photography of Birds. 



[Photography for Bird-Lovers. x\ Practical (iuitle. By JJentley 

 Beetham. Londou, 1911. Pp. 1-126, 18 pis.] 



This book is a most useful compendium for Ornithologists 

 who use the camera. It presupposes a certain amount of 

 knowledge of pliotographic technique, but gives full instruc- 

 tions of the methods to be used in approaching birds and in 

 securing their pictures under all circumstances. The nests 

 and their contents are also taken into consideration, and 

 there is an interesting chapter on Rope-work. In fact, all 

 the information that a beginner requires, or an expert needs to 

 recall, is here given in a compact form, accompanied l)y some 

 excellent specimens of the pliotographic art. The author 

 tells us that concealment is usually necessary in the case of 

 wild birds, as we should naturally have expected, but lie 

 also discusses pictures of captive specimens and dead 

 birds. 



85. A. H. Evans on the Fauna of the Tweed Area. 



[A Vertebrate Fauna of Scotland, edited by J. A. llarvie-Brown. 

 The Tweed Area including tlie Fame Islands, by A. II. Evans, 

 Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1911. Sm. 4to ^ pp. i-xxviii, 1-262, 

 29 illustr. and map.] 



With the present volume — the eleventh — the important 

 " Vertebrate Fauna of Scotland " series may be said to have 

 entered its final stage. Hitherto the areas dealt with have 

 all been north of "Forth" and ''Clyde," their /oc?/5 being 

 consequently in the Highlands (or, at any rate, partly so) 

 and the islands beyond. The volume now issued, treating 

 as it does oP a district in the Lowlands, and that a " Border" 

 one, has therefore aspects of special interest attaching to it. 

 So-called natural areas do not, as a rule, coincide Avith 

 political ones, and it need excite no surprise to find a sub- 

 stantial part of Northum])erland, on the English side of the 

 Border, included within the purview of this volume, the 

 title of the series notwithstanding. Briefly stated, the Tweed 

 Area, as therein defined, comprises practically the Avhole of 

 the counties of Berwick, Ro.xburgh, Selkirk, and Peebles, with 



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