180 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



15. Report on the Zoological Gardens, Giza, for 1907. 



[Government of Egypt. Public Works Department. Zoological 

 Gardens, Giza, near Cairo. Report for the Year 1907 (Ninth Annual 

 Report) by the Director, Cairo, 1908. 30 pp.] 



Like most of the other British institutions which we have 

 introduced into the Land of the Pharaohs, the Zoological 

 Gardens at Giza seem to be in a very flourishing state. 

 Capt. Stanley Flower informs us that the year 1907 has 

 proved a " record^' for the Gardens under liis charge in the 

 number of visitors, in the amount of gate-money taken, and 

 in the increase of the Menagerie. The donations of living 

 animals (225) exceeded in number those received in any 

 previous year, and among the species which bred in the 

 Gardens in 1907 were the Koodoo and the Addax, two fine 

 antelopes which are not known to have reproduced their 

 kind elsewhere in captivity. A new aviary has been built 

 for the Ibises and allied birds, and a new enclosure has been 

 made for the Flamingoes. Amongst the birds which bred in 

 the Gardens in 1907 were the Crowned Pigeon [Goura 

 coronata) and Key's Partridge {Ammoperdix heyi). 



AVe need hardly add that no lover of natural history who 

 goes to Egypt should fail to visit the Giza Gardens, which 

 are situated on the tram-line leading to the Pyramids. The 

 three Shoe-bills (Balceniceps rex) are still alive and well ! 



16. Rothschild on Casuarius bistriatus. 



[Note on Casuarins bistriatus Oort. By the Hon. Walter Rothschild, 

 Ph.D. Nov. Zool. XV. p. 392.] 



Mr. Rothschild recognizes Casuarius bistriatus, lately de- 

 scribed by Dr. Van Oort (see 'The Ibis,' 1907, p. 541), as 

 a good subspecies, but maintains that it ought not to be 

 compared with C. beccarii, but with C. sclateri, of which it 

 is a smaller form. He now enumerates eight subspecies of 

 C. galeatus. 



17. Rothschild and Hartert on the Birds of Vella Lavella. 



[The Birds of Vella Lavella, Solomon Islands. By the Hon. Walter 

 Rothschild, Ph.D., and Ernst Hartert, Ph.D. Nov. Zool. xv, p. 351.] 



Mr. Meek has now visited Vella Lavella, one of the 



