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small outlying portions of Haddington and Midlothian in 
the north, and a goodly slice of Northumberland, with the 
Fame Islands, in the south. The invasion of English soil 
is not great, and on a broad view of the matter seems quite 
justifiable ; undoubtedly it gives a finish to the survey, and 
adds much to its interest. At the same time it is a point 
that will have to be borne in mind in any comparison of the 
fauna of South Scotland with other sections of the country. 
The author being a native of the district, born and 
brought up at Scremerston near Berwick-on-Tweed, and, 
though latterly non-resident, always in close touch with it 
and its naturalists, and possessing at the same time other 
essential qualifications for the task, it was but fitting that the 
Tweed volume should have fallen to the lot of Mr. A. IT. 
Evans. That the result is one of the best “ Faunas ” of the 
series goes without saying. A feature is the exhaustive 
manner in which the voluminous literature has evidently 
been ransacked, and the careful citation of the records. 
Certainly Mr. Evans’s fellow-workers in the district have no 
cause to complain of his treatment of them. But while 
generously fair in his recognition of the work of others, it 
is a question whether by the studied avoidance of the first 
personal pronoun he has been equally fair to himself. 
Following an Introduction of fourteen pages, in which 
short biographical notices of deceased Border naturalists and 
a Bibliography—which, by the way, does not include the 
author’s own paper on the Birds of the Melrose District, 
published in the 1 Scottish Naturalist ’ for 1891—are given, 
there comes a clear and orderly description, in twenty-five 
pages, of the “ physical features ” of the area, section by 
section, from the faunistic point of view. The district, it may 
here be remarked, is regarded as occupying a distinctly inter¬ 
mediate faunal position between the North and the South of 
Great Britain. From this chapter we pass to the main part of 
the book, namely, the systematic account of the Vertebrates 
(excluding the Fishes) that have been recorded from the area. 
The Class Aves, with which alone we are here concerned, is 
