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now accompanies the travelling zoologist — it will often be his 

 only weapon. ' The Camera on the Amazons,' ' The Naturalist 

 Photographer in the Malayan Archipelago,' will be books to sup- 

 plement the delightful volumes of Bates and Wallace. 



These are probably some of the conclusions which will strike 

 most readers of this real bird-book. 



The Vertebrate Fauna of "Dee." By George Sim, A.L.S. 

 Aberdeen: D. Wyllie & Son. 



The opening paragraph to the author's preface well describes 

 this volume : " Many changes have occurred in 'Dee' since 1855, 

 the date of issue of the Natural History of Deeside and Braemar, 

 written by the late highly talented Dr. MacGillivray. The 

 following pages are the result of observations made during the 

 past forty years, which, it is hoped, will bring those changes into 

 view, and the state of our Fauna up to date." 



The introduction describes the beautiful " Dee," which com- 

 prises the greater part of the counties of Aberdeen and Kincar- 

 dine ; and what old associations arise in connection ! As we read 

 of the red sandstone cliffs, we think of Hugh Miller ; while 

 did not Smiles introduce the world to Thomas Edward, to 

 whom Scotland proved a good but hard parent ? These names 

 are excluded from no faunistic area, they belong to all North 

 Britain. That there are still good observers, unknown to fame 

 or notoriety, is proved by the many references in Mr. Sim's 

 volume, especially in connection with birds and mammals, to 

 information afforded by foresters and keepers. 



Mr. Sim has spared no pains in collecting all available in- 

 formation, which he has well analysed and selected for his pages. 

 In Reptilia, the Hawks-bill Turtle (Chelonia imbiicata) finds a 

 place on the authority of two specimens taken in Salmon-nets. 



A very welcome and valuable section is devoted to the 

 " Fishes of the East Coast from Wick to Firth of Forth." The 

 Bonito (Thynnus pelamys) is included, a specimen having been 

 caught at Kirkside in 1859, which is now in Montrose Museum ; 

 the Salmon is treated in an excellently condensed and thorough 

 manner; the Grayling (Thy mallus vulgaris) seems a somewhat 

 unauthenticated inclusion ; the Loach (Nemacheilus barbatula) 

 is, as Mr. Sim allows, enumerated on somewhat insufficient 

 evidence. Of the Sandy Ray (Raia radula), Mr. Sim states he 



