Recently published Ornithological Works. 75 7 
84. Beetham on the Practical Photography of Birds. 
[Photography for Bird-Lovers. A Practical Guide. By Bentley 
Beetham. London, 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 photographic 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 by some 
excellent specimens of the photographic art. The author 
tells us that concealment is usually necessary in the case of 
wild birds, as we should naturally have expected, but he 
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. Harvie-Brown. 
The Tweed Area including the 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. Llitherto the areas dealt with have 
all been north of Forth ” and u Clyde,” their locus being 
consequently in the Highlands (or, at any rate, partly so) 
and the islands beyond. The volume now issued, treating 
as it does of 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 with 
political ones, and it need excite no surprise to find a sub¬ 
stantial part of Northumberland, 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 whole of 
the counties of Berwick, Roxburgh, Selkirk, and Peebles, with 
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