liiceiithj jju/j/ishcil Oniit/io/o(/ica/ JJ'orks. 545 



Sparrow-Hawk [Accipiter brevipes). The Pied Kingfisher 

 {Cenjle I'udis) is the domicant form of the Alcediiiidre in 

 Egypt; on the 5th of May, 1902, twenty-four of these birds 

 were counted in one part of the Giza Gardens. Onr 

 Cuckoo {Cticiilus canorus) is a "regular visitor in small 

 numbers, in spring and autumn/' but has never been heard 

 to emit its characteristic love-note there. Such are some of 

 the " plums " that we venture to pick out from this 

 interesting memoir, which should be iu the hands of every 

 bird-lover who goes to Egypt. 



60. Gacioiv's ' Southern Mexico.* 



[Through Sou<^bern Mexico, being: an Account of the Travels of a 

 Naturalist. By Hans Gadow, M.A., Ph.D., F.Il.S. 1 vol. 527 pp. 

 Witherby & Co. I'rice 18s. net.] 



A well-written record of journeyings in a little known 

 part of the world, interspersed with notices of its animals 

 and plants, and profusely illustrated by oiiginal photo- 

 graphs, is sure to be an attractive piece of work, and 

 Dr. Gadow's volume comes mcII under this category. 

 Though a few English travellers have written about Mexico 

 of late years, and a magnificent Mork on its Biology is now 

 nearly complete, that country has been left mainly to our 

 cousins on the north side of the Republic, where railways 

 and hotels have rendered it easy of access. Dr. Gadow and 

 his wife, however, selected for their investigation the most 

 remote portion of Mexico, where the American invader had 

 hardly penetrated and '^ wild nature " is in many places still 

 almost undisturbed. 



Although it might be suppposed that the '' Strickland 

 Curator,^' even when abroad, would not fail to devote his 

 main investigations to birds. Dr. Gadow did not take this 

 severe view of his duties, and rather turned his attention to 

 the inferior class of Reptiles. Nevertheless we find a certain 

 number of '' birdy " passages in the volume. A lively de- 

 scription of the curious ways and manners of the "garra- 

 pateros '' {Crotophaga sulcirostris) is given. This "funny- 

 looking" Cuckoo is ever present in the grassy part of the 



