168 Recently/ published Ornithological Worka. 



Mr. L. G. Cliaudler writes on the Pardalotes, aud H. S. Dove 

 on Petroeca vittata. Similar articles in the earlier number 

 deal with the Victorian Sericornes (Mr. A. G. Campbell), 

 Ptilotis cassidix (Messrs. F. E. Wilson and L. G. Chandler), 

 Catarrhactes chrysocome in captivity (Mr. E. B. NichoUs), 

 and the Regent Bird (Mr. P. H. Gilbert). 



In conclusion, we may refer to shorter articles or notes — on 

 the "Destruction of Birds ^' by Mr. J. W. Mellor, on subfossil 

 Bird-remains from King Island, Bass Straits (including 

 those of Di'omcEus minor), from Mem. Nat, Mus. Melbourne, 

 on the taming of wild Blue-bellied Lorikeets by a lady (pi.), 

 and the insertion of a portrait of our lost Ornithologist, 

 Dr. Bowdler Sharpe, in the " Notes and Notices." 



9. Finn on Asiatic Waterfoivl. 



[The Waterfowl of India and Asia. By F. Finn. Calcutta, 1909. 

 121 pp.] 



This is a revised edition of the author's work ' How to 

 know the Indian Ducks,' and furnishes a useful summary 

 of all that is known of the various species, brought up to 

 date, with brief notices and descriptions of the non-Indian 

 forms. It is apparently meant in the first place for Anglo- 

 Indians, and keys to the species are formed for their benefit. 

 Heads of the Ducks likely to be met with by local sportsmen 

 are given as aids to identification. A first Appendix is 

 devoted to a " Synoptical Table of the Indian Anatidte," a 

 second to a "Table of colours of full-plumaged males," and 

 a third to " Aviaries for Ducks." 



10. Flower^s Report on the Zoological Gardens of Giza. 



[Zoological Gardens, Giza, near Cairo. Report for the Year 1909 

 (Eleventh Annual Eeport). By the Director. Cairo, 1910.*] 



The Keport on the Zoological Garden at Giza, near 

 Cairo, gives us a very favorable account of its progress in 

 every department during the year 1909. Of course, the more 

 prominent objects in all such institutions are the Mammals; 

 but Birds, as will be seen by the Report, are I y no means 

 neglected at Giza, and allusions to them will be found in 

 * Cf. Report for 1908, * Ibis,' 1909, p. 701. 



