Recently published Or/iitholoi/icuf Works. u43 



from one example only. Similar information is given on 

 CoUocalia francica. 



In part 2 Mr. D. Le Souef has an artiele on new or rare 

 eggs belonging to thirteen Anstralian species, and jNIr. T. 

 Carter a note on the diseovery of Calamantlius montanellus. 

 Mr. A. H. Mattingley commences an article on the Malice 

 Fowl [Lipoa ocellata), which is continned in part 3. It is 

 many years since we read so good a description of the nesting- 

 habits of this bird, and the present account is exceptionally 

 full and well illustrated. The great irregularity in the depo- 

 sition of tiie eggs seems to be quite a new point, Mr. E. M. 

 Cornwall follows with the second part of his Notes referring 

 to ^Mackay, N. Queensland; and in part 4 ^Ir. F. L. Whit- 

 lock writes on the birds observed on the Pilbarra Goldticld, 

 N.W. Austraha. 



Other papers are by Mr. Gibson (Abrolhos Islands) ; 

 Dove (Essenden, Victoria) ; Stead (Black Cormorant in 

 Is'ew Zealand) ; Cole (Cormorants in Victoria) ; Hill (j\lon- 

 tague Island) ; Howe (N.W. Victoria) ; and Miss Fletcher 

 (Cleveland, Tasmania). Mr. A. G. (Jampbell writes a 

 monograph on the Flame-breasted Robin, and Mr. li. Hall 

 gives notes on the migration of Cypsetus pacificus. 



There are a considerable number of illustrations in these 

 three parts, and a graphic narrative is furnished by Capt. S. A. 

 White of the A. O. U. Expedition to the islands of Bass Straits, 

 while Mr. A. J. Campbell describes the simultaneous "camp- 

 out^' on Philip Island. 



A sketch of a great forward movement in Bird-Protection 

 is given in part 2, with which may be coupled the '^Minutes 

 of Conference of State Government Representatives on 

 Bird-Protection " that follow in part 4. 



59. Flower and Nicoll on the Wild Birds of the Giza 

 Gardens. 



[Zoological Gardens, Giza, near Cairo. Special Eeport No. 3. Wild 

 Birds of the Giza Gardens, 1898-1908. By Stanley S. Flower and 

 Michael J. Nicoll. Cairo, 1908. 8vo. Ill pp.] 



On several previous occasions we have alluded to the 

 various birds that resort more or less frequently to the 



