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structure are hardly altered, but the colours chiefly affected are

the pure pigment colours, especially reds and yellows. He

suggests that this alteration is not so much due to lack of suitable

food as to lack of light. When we remember that birds from

damp and dull climates tend to become duller and darker, and

that those species of tropical birds such as Sunbirds, Humming

Birds, Kingfishers, that spend their life in brilliant sunshine,

are the brightest of all birds, there may be something to be said

for M. Maillard’s suggestion.


We have received a Prospectus and a specimen plate of a

new work on Australian Birds, by Mr. G. M. Matthews, a well-

known member of the B.O.U. This work promises to be the

most complete account of the birds which has been issued since

Gould’s famous book, and will be lavishly illustrated with hand-

coloured plates. It will be issued in parts at two guineas each,

and it will be completed in about thirty parts. Part I. containing

some of the Ratite Birds (Emus and Cassowary’s) will appear

this month.


Capt. Flower has just issued a reprint, brought up-to-date,

of his List of the Zoological Gardens of the World. In England

we notice the addition of two new Gardens since last year : one

at Halifax in Yorkshire, under the management of Mr. A. R.

McKill, and the other in the Edgbaston Gardens at Birmingham.


A paper on the subject was published by Capt. Flower in

the Zoologist , for May, 1909, p. 161.


While on the subject of Gardens, we may note that pro¬

posals to open Zoological parks in Edinburgh, Glasgow, and

Liverpool are being actively considered at the present time.



REVIEWS.


FOREIGN BIRDS FOR CAGE AND AVIARY.*


A notice of the first part of this useful work appeared in

the Avicullural Magazine of December rgoS, and we now have

the pleasure of calling the attention of our members to the



* Foreign Birds for Cage and Aviaty.


By Arthur G. Buti.er, Ph.D., P.L.S., F.Z.S., M. B.O.U. Part II. Illustrated.

London: The “Feathered World” Office, 9, Arundel Street, W.C.



