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nearly every page of the Report. At the stock-taking, in 

 November, 797 specimens of birds were counted, referable to 

 207 species, amongst which the Pigeons aud Parrots were 

 most numerous. The new buildings erected in 1909 were a 

 new Vulture-cage and a new Crane-paddock. Amongst the 

 birds new to the collection were two Egyptian Lark-headed 

 Cuckoos (Centropus (egyptius) from the Fayum. Twenty 

 species of birds bred in the Gardens in 1909, and 16 others 

 laid eggs but did not succeed in hatching them. 



The collection of Egyptian bird-skius, formed maiuly by 

 Mr, Nicoll for the purpose of correct identification, con- 

 tained 1180 specimens on the 31st of December, 1909, as 

 compared with 675 at the corresponding date in 1908. 



Capt. Flower has prepared a new edition of his ' List of 

 all the Zoological Gardens in the World,^ arranged alpha- 

 betically, which is a very useful publication to all those who 

 are interested in this subject, and contains the names of the 

 Directors of the various Gardens. Over 100 of such institu- 

 tions are registered in the List. 



11. Fulton on the Bronze Cuckoo of New Zealand. 



[The " Pipiaharauroa " or Bronze Cuckoo ( Chalcococcyx lucidus) of New 

 Zealand, and an Account of its Habits. By Robert Fulton, M.D. Trans. 

 New Zealand Inst. 1909, p. 392.] 



This Cuckoo is a summer visitor to New Zealand, arrivini; 

 at the end of September and, like many Cuckoos, deposits 

 its eggs in other birds' nests. It departs from New Zealand 

 in February, and is said to go to "New Guinea,^' but more 

 evidence on this point is required. Mr. Fulton gives a long- 

 account of its " wicked ways," and concludes with a list of 

 previous authorities on the subject, 48 in number. 



12. Gladstone on the Birds of Dumfriesshire. 



[The Birds of Dumfriesshire. A Contribution to the Fauna of the 

 Solway Area. By Hugh S. Gladstone. London, 1910 : Witherby & Co. 

 8vo, pp. i-xcix, 1-482.] 



The Solway area, which contains not only Dumfriesshire, 

 Kirkcudbrightshire, and Wigtownshire, but also parts of 

 Ayrshire, Roxburghshire, and Northumberland, lacks a 



