Recently published Ornithological Works. 759 
represented by 255 species (exclusive of a few “ doubtfuls ” 
in square brackets), tlie known facts concerning each as a 
member of the local avifauna being well stated in the usual 
short articles allowed for in the plan of the series. In addition 
to the strictly local records, the author has not hesitated to 
refer to occurrences beyond the prescribed limits when it 
was thought that light was thereby thrown on the species as 
a “ Tweed" bird. As examples of the application of this 
broadening of the outlook, the articles on the Waxwing, 
Pied Flycatcher, and Stock-Dove maybe cited. The Wood- 
Sandpiper, we are told, is a “ rare summer visitor, which 
arrives early in May and leaves in August or September/' 
surely too high an estimate of its status, at the present day 
at any rate*. With regard to the Classification and Nomen¬ 
clature of the Birds, Mr. Evans has not thought it wise to 
alter them from those used in previous volumes of the series, 
a course which, though departed from in the case of the 
Mammals, may in the circumstances be expected to commend 
itself to all but a few extremists. One alteration, however, 
has crept in : for Parus palustris has been substituted Parus 
dresseri, a doubtful improvement, seeing that the only form 
of “Marsh" Tit proved to occur in the area is stated to be the 
so-called British Willow-Tit. It does not appear that the 
lighthouses on St. Abb's Head and the Fame Islands have 
yet been utilised to any great extent in the detection of rare 
Passeres on migration; when they are, some interesting 
additions to the local list may be anticipated. 
The volume, like its predecessors, is handsomely got up 
and illustrated, though in the matter of reproduction some of 
the plates are perhaps a little disappointing. In the choice of 
localities for illustration the chief consideration has rightly 
been their connexion past or present with interesting species. 
A wide, range of subjects is thus depicted. Peeblesshire, 
however, is unrepresented. 
* [Mr. W. Evans desires it to fie made known that the statement in 
the footnote on p. 210 of the u Tweed ” vol. regarding the Wood-Sand¬ 
piper has fieen attributed to him through some misunderstanding.—E dd.] 
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