158 Sliort Notices of Ornitliohujleal PnhUcations. 



the following wild birds " characteristic of the Nile live 

 together in a state of comparative freedom " : Whale-headed 

 Stork, Saddle-billed Stork, Sacred Ibis, (-rowned Crane, 

 Demoiselle Crane, Grey Crane, Flamingo, Egyptian Goose, 

 Spur-winged Goose, and Brown-necked Raven. The total 

 number of birds in the gardens was G62, apportioned to 

 145 species. The Great Spotted Cuckoo (^Coccijstes glan- 

 darhis) was observed wild in the girdens. The Director, 

 Captain Stanley Flower, F.Z.S., is certainly to be con- 

 gratulated on the results of his labours. 



6. The ' Aquila ' (the Orqan of the Tlimgarian Bureau of 

 Ornitholof/ij), vol. xii. 1905, has reached us. It is printed in 

 two lanfTuaojes, Hungarian and German, but this number 

 contains an article in English by Professor Alfred Newton, 

 M.A., F.R.S., titled " The Naumann Festival at Cothen " *, 

 from which the following extracts are worthy of quota- 

 tion : — 



" Naumann is but a name to nine out of ten British 

 ornithologists, and the proportion of them who have held in 

 their hands a volume with that name on the title page must 

 be smaller still. Yet it was borne by two men who, taking 

 them all round, were the most practical ornithologists that 

 ever lived, for their personal knowledge of the birds of 

 (ycntral Europe was not exceeded by that of any of their 

 contemporaries, and it may be fairly doubted whether any of 

 their successors, vastly improved as are the modern means 

 of acquiring such knowledge, have attained to the like 

 acquaintance." Professor Newton gives a brief biographical 

 sketch of father and son, and winds up with a short appreci- 

 ation of their work. He says : — " Making every allowance 

 for the ordinary Englishman's linguistic deficiences, it is not 

 to the credit of our predecessors in this country, though there 

 are many of whom we may be justly proud, that until the 

 year 1850 not one of them seems ever to have heard of the 

 Naumanns and their incomparable works.'' In inserting 



* Originally published in ' Nature.' 



