722 Recent/t/ published Ornithological [P^orks. [Ibis, 



view. Each article is illustrated with a coloured jDlate, 

 apparently prepared by Mr. Inglis, though the name of 

 the artist is nowhere definitely stated. They are carefully 

 drawn^ though perhaps a little stifHy, but will enable anyone 

 to recognize the birci^ and will, no doubt, prove of great 

 service to all those who are interested in Indian farming. 



Flower on the Giza Zooloyicud Gardens. 



TReport on the Zoological Service for die year 1921, in which is 

 included the 23rd Annual lieport of tlie Giza Zoological Gardens. By 

 Major S. S. Flower, O.B.K., etc. Pp. 1-18, Cairo (Govt. Press), 1922.] 



Major Flower's annual report shows that the Giza 

 Zoological Gardens continues to prosper and attract large 

 numbers of visitors and that the collections are well 

 maintained. In ordej- to replenish the stock of animals the 

 Director made au expedition to the Sudan in the winter of 

 1920-1 and was able to secure some interesting specimens, 

 among them a Duck, FuUgula brunnea, from Kordofan 

 which does not appear to have been recorded from so far 

 north previously. Another addition to the Egyptian fauna 

 is the Barbary Partridge, Alectoris harbara, examples of 

 which have been obtained Iw Major E. A. T. Bayly in the 

 Mursa jNIatriih district of north-west Egypt. These are 

 probably referable to the form recently described by 

 Salvadori and Eesta as Caccabis callolatma, but not recog- 

 nized as distinct by Hartert in his last supplement to the 

 Vog. pal. Eauna. 



Grate on new African Birds. 



[Bemerkungen ilber einige neue atrilvanische Foruien. Von Hermann 

 Gi'ote. Journ. (Jruith. 1922, pp. ^97-404 ; also Urn. Mouatsber. xxx. 

 1922, ].p. yO, 87.] 



Dr. Grote has recently been devoting himself very 

 assiduously to the study of African birds, and in these two 

 papers provides new names of eight subspecific races as 

 follows : — Musophuya vlolacea savannicola from the grass- 

 lauds of eastern Cameroon^ Hypochera chalybeuta cameru- 

 nensis from S.E. Cameroon, Plocepasser superciliosus brun- 

 nescens E. Cameroon, Estrilda [Layonosticta) seneyala zedlitzi 



