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suggested would have made but a slight addition to the cost of 

 printing. 



The ensuing part (the sixth) will complete the work, in which 

 Mr. Sharpe proposes to include all the species of birds found in 

 South Africa between the Gape Colony and Benguela on the 

 west, and the Zambesi on the east coast, this country forming 

 his Subregio capensis, and having natural boundaries. This is 

 about double the area dealt with by Mr. Layard in his original 

 work, and thus some idea may be formed of the labour bestowed 

 by Mr. Sharpe in the preparation of this new edition. 



Die Vogel der Zoologischen Garten. Von Dr. Ant. Reichenow. 

 1st Part. Leipzig: 1882. 8vo, pp. xxx. and 278. 



Dr. Reichenow has given to this Introduction to Ornithology 

 the title of ' The Birds of the Zoological Gardens,' because 

 his chief aim is to produce a work suitable for visitors to 

 institutions which he looks upon as being even more instructive 

 than museums. In accordance with this aim he gives an 

 account of the characters of the several species which he men- 

 tions under each genus ; desiring, at the same time, to avoid 

 confusion, he has selected only such forms as are likely to be 

 found in our vivaria. When we test our author so far, by 

 comparing him with the list of animals exhibited in our own 

 Zoological Gardens in London, we find that, if we select almost 

 at random two cases, there have been here exhibited more species 

 of the genus Larus than he enumerates, and just the same 

 number of Ocydromus ; perhaps the comparison is hardly a fair 

 one, for, as the management of the Zoological Society is at present 

 constituted, its Fellows and the public may any day be notified of 

 the arrival of some rare and so-called unique specimen. 



The first part of the work, which deals with what the author 

 calls " Park-Vogel," is alone now before us ; the second will treat 

 of the smaller birds which can conveniently be kept in cages ; this 

 of course so far as Nature will allow of a somewhat arbitrary 

 division. 



As Dr. Reichenow adds on to forms likely to be obtained for 

 zoological gardens an account of such genera as Didus, it will be 

 seen that his work appeals to a sufficiently wide audience, and we 



