. British birds. Birds. f^CVIEWS A Fauna of the Tweed Area. By A. H. Evans. Pp. 262 + XXVIII. 21 Plates and a Map. (Edinburgh : David Douglas.) 30s. This is the twelfth volume of Mr. Harvie-Brown's Vertebrate Fauna of Scotland. The Tweed Area covers the counties of Berwick, Roxburgh, Selkirk and Peebles, and penetrates to a small extent into East Lothian and Mid Lothian, while it takes in the north-eastern corner of Northumberland, includ- ing Holy Island and the Fame Isles. Following a bibliography Mr. Evans gives a good account of the physical features of this region, and then proceeds to a
. British birds. Birds. f^CVIEWS A Fauna of the Tweed Area. By A. H. Evans. Pp. 262 + XXVIII. 21 Plates and a Map. (Edinburgh : David Douglas.) 30s. This is the twelfth volume of Mr. Harvie-Brown's Vertebrate Fauna of Scotland. The Tweed Area covers the counties of Berwick, Roxburgh, Selkirk and Peebles, and penetrates to a small extent into East Lothian and Mid Lothian, while it takes in the north-eastern corner of Northumberland, includ- ing Holy Island and the Fame Isles. Following a bibliography Mr. Evans gives a good account of the physical features of this region, and then proceeds to a detailed discussion of its vertebrate fauna with the exception of the Fishes, which are to be treated with those of the Forth Area in the volume on that region promised by Mr. W. Evans. We are here concerned with the Birds, which occupy a large portion (pp. 52-246) of the book ; but we must not fail to note, in passing, the extraordinary and conspicuous omission of the Rabbit from the Mammals. Mr. Evans's account of the birds is, with some important exceptions to be referred to later, on the whole a satisfactory piece of work, and though we could have wished for evidence of more personal observation than is given, the gathering together of the published records has been done with great care and discrimination. It is somewhat curious that Mr. O. Bolam, who is so very frequently quoted in this volume, and who has no doubt done more observation than anyone else in the area, should himself be writing a book, which we understand is now in the press. The Tweed area is a somewhat important one for the reason that within or near its limits the northernmost point of the ranges of several species in Great Britain was reached until comparatively recent times, while in the case of at least one bird—the Eider—the Fame Isles provide its most southerly breeding place at the present time. To the necessity of carefull}^ reviewing the history of the status of such birds the author has been a
Size: 1648px × 1516px
Photo credit: © Library Book Collection / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, bookpublisherl, booksubjectbirds
