270 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



With Mr. Oates' mode of treatment we have no fault to find. 

 He first gives the name of the species which he supposes to have 

 priority, followed by the synonymy. He then gives descriptions 

 of the male, female, and young, followed by dimensions, and 

 concludes with brief notes on the localities where it has been 

 found in British Burmah, and on its general range so far as 

 ascertained. 



Amongst the -400 species of Burmese birds noticed in this 

 volume we find several that are very familiar to us in this country, 

 notably the White and Grey-headed Wagtails, the Tree Pipit, 

 Common Swallow, Hirundo rustica, which resides in Burmah all 

 the year round, and there meets the American Barn Swallow, 

 II. horreorum ; the Sand Martin, which seems to be well-nigh cos- 

 mopolitan in its range, and the Tree Sparrow, which is the 

 Common Sparrow of the Burmese. Amongst other species which 

 occasionally find (or lose) their way westward to England, we 

 notice the Blue Rock Thrush, Bluethroat, Yellow-browed Willow 

 Warbler, Red -throated Pipit, Rose Finch, Carpodacus erythrinus, 

 and Little Bunting, Emheriza pusdla. 



Those who desire to learn something about the range eastward 

 of these occasional stragglers to Great Britain should consult the 

 pages of Mr. Oates' ' Handbook,' where, on these and many other 

 points on which we have not space to dilate, they will find much 

 to interest them. 



We shall look forward with pleasure to the appearance of the 

 second volume of this work, not only because it will contain an 

 account of species more generally interesting to stay-at-home 

 naturalists and sportsmen, but because in it we shall hope to 

 find much that will be valuable in the shape of generalisations 

 from the data which Mr. Oates has so assiduously collected. 



The Fisheries of the Adriatic, and the Fish thereof: a Report of 

 the Austro- Hungarian Sea Fisheries ; with a detailed descrip- 

 tion of the Marine Fauna of the Adriatic Gulf. By G. L. 

 Fabee, H.M. Consul, Fiume. 4to, pp. 292, with illustra- 

 tions. London: Quaritch. J 883. 



The publication of this handsome quarto on the Adriatic 

 Fisheries has been singularly well-timed, since it makes its 



