24 SJi07't JS^otices of Ornithological Prihlicathws. 



Langkuil, on 20th January, 1910. One of the primary 

 wing-feathers bore the No. 167, on the left leg was an india- 

 rubber ring and on the right an aluminium ring with the 

 legend: "215 JEHS. 08-9." If any one of our readers 

 should know something of the history of the bird, the Editors 

 of this Journal will be pleased to hear from him. 



VIII. — Short Notices of Ornithological Publications. 



1. TAe Ibis, a Quarterly Journal of Ornithology, 



April 1909 No. contains "Contributions to the Ornitho- 

 logy of Egypt. — No. II. Birds of the Province of Giza : 

 Part 1,^' by H. J. Nicoll, F.Z.S., M.B.O.U. 



This is a long list of the birds occurring in the Giza 

 Province of Egypt, by the Assistant Director of the Giza 

 Zoological Gardens, although the author himself doubts its 

 completeness. It is illustrated by a fine lithographic plate of 

 Scotocerca inguieta (Cretzschm.). 



July 1909 contains Part 2 of Mr. Nicoll's just mentioned 

 paper. We have here also a continuation of Mr. A. L. 

 Butler's " Contributions to the Ornithology of the Sudan,'" 

 the portion under notice relating to the birds observed on 

 the Red Sea coast in May 1908. Of more interest to South 

 African ornithologists than the above-mentioned papers is 

 one by Gerard H. Gurney, F.Z.S. ^c, entitled " Notes on 

 a Collection of Birds made in British East Africa.'' The 

 field-notes are in many cases excellent, and there are 

 of course many references to well-known South African 

 species. 



October 1909. This number commences with an article on 

 the birds of Cyprus by our one-time Editor and President 

 Mr. J. A. Bucknill, M.A., &c. Part 3 of Mr. Nicoll's 

 " Contributions to the Ornithology of Egypt (Province of 

 Giza) " also appears herein. We have also the description 

 of a new bird (with coloured plate) : P seudocalyptomena 

 graueri, genus et species nova. 



