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The success of an institution like the Calcutta Zoological Gardens can be 
judged of only by the number of species exhibited in it, the services it renders 
to the advancement of zoological knowledge, and the measure of patronage 
extended to it by the public. We can most confidently assert that the Com- 
mittee’s efforts to develop the Gardens agreeably to the terms of the original 
prospectus and their management of the animals in it have been eminently 
successful. We are agreeably surprised to find that the work under review 
contains notices of 10 orders, 46 families, 106 genera and 241 species of 
mammals, and 24 orders, 52 families, 242 genera and 402 species of birds, + 
that had been exhibited in the Gardens up to 1891. Considering that the 
Gardens are only in the sixteenth year of their existence, they rival in 
respect of the number of species many European and American institutions of 
a similar kind, among which may be mentioned .the older establishment in 
the London Regent’s Park, which, according to the first edition, published 
in 1862, of the “ List of Vertebrates in the London Zoological Gardens,’ had 
up to that year exhibited in them only 188 species of mammals and 409 of 
birds, 
The work has been admirably got up, printed and bound in the usually 
excellent style of the Bengal Secretariat Press, and contains 351 large octavo 
pages of closely printed matter. Its value has further been enhanced by the 
addition of three excellent full-page photo-etchings, executed in the Survey of 
India Offices, respectively delineating views of the Carnivora-house, the Deer- 
sheds and the Water-fowl enclosure, 
We are convinced from a perusal of the work that it would not only make 
a capital hand-book, which would “be of great use to the numerous nobles 
and other persons who on a smaller scale keep collections of animals or birds 
in captivity,” but would also form an admirable text-book of zoology for those 
of our schools and colleges in which natural history is taught, 
SARAT CHANDRA MITRA, M.A, BL, 
Es 
* Besides the omissions noted above, the following mammals, which have already been 
exhibited in the Gardens, have not been included in the present work: the Black-crested 
Ape of Celebes (Cynopithecus niger, Desm.) Egyptian Fox (Canis cerdo, Gmel.); the Markhor 
(Capra falconeri, Hiigel), and a flying-squirrel from Burma, named Sciuropterus phayrei, 
Blyth, which Dr, Blandford, in his work on Mammalia, in the Fauna of British India series, 
page 367, has identified with Sciwropterus sargitta. 
+ The undermentioned birds, though at one time exhibited in the collection, have been, 
most probably through oversight, omitted from this work: Yellow Troupial (Xanthosomus 
Aavus, Gmel,); the Himalayan Jay (Garrulus bispecularis) ; the Neck-lace throated Laughing- 
thrush (Garrulaz moniliger) ; Pelecanus onocrotalus, Linn ; the Bahama Duck (Dajila baha- 
mensis, Linn,) ; the Prionitwrus setarius of Celebes ; the Greater Bird of Paradise (Paradisea 
apoda, Linn.); the Long-tailed Glossy Starling of West Africa (Lamprotornis aéneus, Linn.); 
the Variegated Sheldrake of New Zealand (Tadorna variegata); the Little Brown Owl of Java 
(Scops lemipiji), and the Carpophaga chalybura, Bp, of the Phillipine Islands, 
