1920.] Recenthj puhlhhed Ornithological JVorlat. 501 



BonJwte on the destruction of Migratory Birds in Egypt. 



[Bird-liming' in Lower Egypt. By J. Lewis Bonbote: with an 

 Introduction by Major Flower. Cairo, 1919. Pp. i-ii, 1-9 (Ministry 

 of Public Works, Egypt).] 



Ill tliis paper tlie author and Major Flower inveigh 

 against the wliolesale massacre of the smaller birds on the 

 northern Egyptian coasts, which is so prevalent at Damietta 

 and llosetta, though nearly stopped at Alexandria. They 

 describe the methods of using bird-limed twigs or reeds 

 at the spots where the flocks of migrants usually alight, 

 and descant on the harm done by killing the species 

 which are useful in destroying injurious insects. The 

 Agricultural Department is doing its best to end the traffic 

 with Europe in small birds; but it is very difficult to watch 

 the districts involved efficiently, or to suggest effective 

 means of prevention. 



Boubier on the Migration of Birds. 



[Les cinq Eventails de Migration des Oiseaux de la Faune Pale- 

 arctique. By Maurice Boubier. Geneva, 1919 (extract from Bull. 

 Sec. Zool. Geneve).] 



The author, having gathered all possible information on 

 the species of birds which migrate southwards from the 

 paliearctic area, concludes that they move in five fan- 

 shaped arrangements. His facts seem accurate and are 

 carefully considered, hut his deductions lose much of their 

 value from the fact that he has omitted in his argument 

 a great part of western South Africa, with the whole of 

 Australia and the South Seas. 



Coivard on British Birds. 



[The Birds of tlie British Isles and their Eggs. By T. A. Coward. 

 First Series (Corvidaj to Sulid;e). London, 1919. Pp. i-vii, 1-376 j 

 L'42 + 6o pis.] 



j\Ir. Coward is certainly to be congratulated on this 

 excellent little book. It is impossible to read it without 

 feeling that the author is one who has lived among the 



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