Recently published Ornithological Works. 539 



The Eleventh Annual Session of the R. A.O. U. took 

 place at Sydney ; and the Report, with the retiring President's 

 Address, is given in full. Mention is made in it of the 

 increased scarcity of Lopholmnus antarcticus and of the 

 proposed pi'otection of Birds-of-Paradise in British New 

 Guinea. 



59- Flower on the Giza Zoological Gardens. 



[Zoological Gardens, Giza, near Cairo. Report for the Year 1911. 

 By the Director. Cairo, 1912.] 



The thirteenth Annual Report on the progress of the 

 Zoological Gardens at Giza, near Cairo, gives a most satis- 

 factory account of tins Institution, which is well known to 

 all visitors to Egypt. Birds are obviously not of such im- 

 portance in Zoological Gardens as Mammals, and the greater 

 part of the information supplied in this Report relates to 

 the latter. But Birds are by no means forgotten at Giza, 

 especially when Shoe-bills (Balceniceps rex) are among the 

 ''exhibits." 



60. Hai'tert on two Paradise Birds. 



[Notes on the Paradiseidse figured on Plates VII. and VIII. Nov. 

 Zool. xviii. p. 604.] 



Coloured figures of Falcinellus astrapoides and Astrapia 

 rothschildi are now given (see 'Ibis,' 1911, pp. 361, 366). 

 The first of these is a most remarkable bird, only known 

 from the single example at Tring. Of Astrapia rothschildi 

 a good series has been received from the Rawlinson Moun- 

 tainsj together with a nest and an egg. 



61, Hellmayr on the Titmice. 



[Genera Avium, conducted by P. Wytsman. Part XVIII. Paridae, 

 by C. E. Hellmayr. Brussels, 1911. (With three coloured plates.)] 



This is a second edition of the memoir on the same subject 

 published in ' Das Tierreich ' in 1903. 



Mr. Hellmayr divides the Paridse into six subfamilies— 



