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which for a very long time to come must be the standard work 
of reference on the subjects of which it treats. 
The full-page illustrations are admirable, ‘‘ The interior of 
North Uist,” ‘‘ Mingalay Village,” and the ‘“ Eyrie of the White- 
tailed Eagle, Shiant Islands,” being especially noticeable, as 
tending to convey with photographic exactness the scenes in 
which the authors’ notes and observations have been made. 
With many English yacht owners nowadays a favourite 
summer cruise is to the Western Islands, and for them and 
their friends on board the present volume will be found 
invaluable, for, apart from the general information which it 
contains on the geographical position and natural history of the 
islands, the maps and charts, with the latest soundings, will be 
of use even to the practised mariner. 
The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Edited 
by W.T. Buanrorp. Fishes by Francis Day. 2 vols. 8vo, 
with illustrations. London: Taylor & Francis. 1889. 
About a year ago (‘ Zoologist,’ 1888, p. 395) we noticed the 
appearance of the first volume of this important series of 
manuals on the Fauna of British India, namely, Part I. of the 
Mammalia, by Dr. Blanford. We have now to call attention to 
the fact that two more volumes have been published entitled as 
above. It will be generally admitted that no one could have 
been found better qualified to write these two volumes than the 
late Surgeon Francis Day, whose death we had so recently to 
deplore (Zool. 1889, p. 806). A long residence in India, where 
he was for some years Inspector-General of Fisheries, afforded 
him ample opportunities for becoming generally acquainted with 
the fish-fauna of that country, and for the collection of the 
materials which enabled him, in 1878, to complete his great 
work on that subject. Fortunately for science he was spared 
long enough to finish the present undertaking so far as to admit 
of the volumes going to press, though much of the labour of 
revising the proof-sheets, we understand, devolved, through his 
illness, upon the Editor. 
The present work is chiefly an abridgement of his larger 
‘Fishes of India,’ with such alterations and additions as were 
rendered necessary by information since collected, and much of 
