■620 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



the largest in the world/^ But Capt. Flower lavishes still 

 greater praise on the energetic Director of the Zoological 

 Garden at Berlin, where the series of birds is " magnificent/' 

 especially of Passerines, Picarians, and Parrots. Such 

 rarities as Rhodonessa caryophyllacea and Didunculus strigi- 

 rustris shew that other groups are not neglected. Besides 

 many other public gardens, Capt. Flower also visited the 

 *' beautiful country-seat " of Heer F. E. Blaauw at Gooilust 

 in Holland, celebrated for its series of Water-fowl, and the 

 park at Woburn, where the President of the Zoological 

 Society of London keeps his unrivalled private Menagerie. 

 Nor did he neglect Aquariums and Museums, about which 

 much information may be obtained from this instructive 

 report, which does credit alike to the author's industry and 

 to his unfailing powers of observation. 



91. Gadow and Gardiner on Birds from the Coral-Islands 

 of the Indian Ocean. 



[The Percy Sladen Trust Expedition to the Indian Ocean in 1905, 

 under the leadership of Mr. J. Stanley Gardiner. — No. VITI, Aves, with 

 some Notes on the Distribution of the Land-birds of the Seychelles. By 

 H. Gadow, M.A., Ph.D., F.Pt.S., and J. Stanley Gardiner, M.A., F.L.S. 

 Trans. Linn. Soc, 2nd ser. Zool. vol. xii. pt. 1.] 



The series of reports on the rich collections made by the 

 Percy Sladen Trust Expedition in the Indian Ocean and on 

 its islands, now being published by the Linnean Society, 

 comprises a memoir on the birds collected and observed, 

 which was read at the meeting of the Linnean Society on 

 February 21st, 1907. The list is rather disappointing, as we 

 look for new discoveries on some of the little-known islands 

 in the Indian Ocean visited by the expedition, but find none ! 

 The '^ systematic list " contains the names of 37 species, but 

 " none of them are peculiar to the islands.'' Most of them 

 are marine birds, stray waders, or species introduced by 

 mankind, such as Foudia madagascariensis , Gracula religiosa, 

 and Francolinus pondicerianus. 



No attempt was made to collect birds in Mauritius or the 

 Seychelles. This was perhaps quite as well, as we learn that 



