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Book Notices mid Reviews. 



prove invaluable, and we cordially commend it to students of 

 our indigenous species generally. We are indebted to the 

 publishers for the loan of blocks illustrating this review. 



List of Animals, Giza Zoological Gakdijxs. r)s. {2rjd 

 Edition). By Stanley S. Flower, Director, National Piinting Dept. 

 Cairo. 



This list, from the pen of our esteemed member is well 

 arranged, comprehensive, practical, and interesting. 



Contents: List of plates; Preface; Remarks on Arabic names 

 of animals; Notes on the system of nomenclature used 

 in this list; Table of numbers of animals; Systeina,tic 

 ■ ' '■ • list of the species and varieties of animals wliieh liave 

 been exhibited alive in the Giza Zoological Gardens Iroii; 

 the 6th of October, 1898, to the fith of Oelol^er, l'.)10. 

 Part I. — Mammals. Part IV.— Batrachians. 



Part II.— Birds. . Part V.— Fishes. 



Part III. — Eeptiles. Part VI. — Invertebrates^ •' 



Alphabetical index of Genera. ,' 



There are twenty half-tone plates, reproduced from' photos 

 from life, as under: 



Young Hippopotamus, male from E.iht Africa (2 plates)., 

 ,, Rbinoceros, female, from Sontlieru huila'i. 



Wild Donkeys, female, from the Atbaia. 



Gr.^■a Niier Ox (! plates'. . . 



Young Kudu, male, from Kordo'an. 



Kudu, fema e, from Kovdof.iu. 



Kordofan Kudu, male, bred in Giza. 

 •■ t Sabre-horned Oryx from Kordofan. 



•/!■ Defassa Waterback from Blue Nile. 



.;.. Afale Ibex — Capra nubiana. 



Nubian Ibex with young kid. 



Kordofan Giraffes 



Young Bhie Nile Giraffe, male. 



Ant-Bear from Kordofan- Or>c'eropu.s (Rthiopicus. 



Shoebill - Balaeniceps rex. 



Marabou Storks on tlicir nests. 



Birds of Prey Cages. 



The systematic list is vary practically and instructively 

 arranged— we quote a record to illustrate this, as typical of 

 the whole: 



f Year first exhibited 

 I 1907. Number of 



registered speci- 

 mens 9. xMaxiinuni 

 length of life of an 

 individual speci- 

 men 2 years 3 m'ts 

 and 3 daj's, and 

 still alive. Number 

 of specimens now 

 [ living here 2. 



At the annual stocktaking on October 6th, 1910, there were 



Emlieriza inehuiocepliala Scopoli 1769. 



Black-headed Bunting, 



Le Roi des Ortolang, on le Crocote. 



Der Kappenammer. 

 Habitat : Europe, Asia, Syria. 



