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Fleming on the Birds of Toronto. 



[Birds of Toronto, Ontario. By James H. Fleming. Eeprinted from 

 * The Natural History of the Toronto Region,' 1913, pp. 1-26.] 



Mr. Fleming, who is a Colonial Member of the B. O. U., 

 has here reprinted his list of the birds of the neighbourhood 

 of Toronto originally published in the ' Auk ' for 1906 and 

 1907. The birds are 292 in number, and with each species 

 is given its status — resident, migrant, accidental, etc., etc. 



Flower on the Zoological Service in Egypt. 



[Report on the Zoological Service for the year 1912, in which is 

 included the 14th Annual Report of the Giza Zoological Gardens, By 

 Capt. S. i3. Flower, Director. 58 pp., 12 pis. Cairo (Govt. Press). 

 1913, 8vo.] 



In this report some account is given of the new laws pro- 

 mulgated in 1912 for the protection of the native fauna of 

 Egypt. A licence is now required to shoot birds or capture 

 them with nets, and the destruction or capture of a certain 

 number of wild birds useful to agriculture is entirely for- 

 bidden. The schedule gives only the French and Arabic 

 names, and among them are Larks, Orioles, Wagtails, 

 Flycatchers, Pipits, Bee-eaters, Hoopoes, and Plovers. 



The Cattle Egret, Ardea ibis, which is known to the 

 natives as '^ Abu gerdan '' [i. e. father of ticks), and which 

 was some years ago a most characteristic feature of Egyptian 

 agricultural life, has of late years been almost entirely 

 exterminated by plume-hunters, and only one breeding- 

 colony is now known to exist in Lower Egypt. This is now 

 carefully protected and watched. 



An attempt is also being made to found fresh colonies of 

 these birds by keeping specimens in large aviaries aud even- 

 tually giving them their liberty. Four of these have already 

 been built for this purpose in different parts of the country. 



Grinnell and Swarth on the Avifauna of the San Jacinto 

 Mountains. 



[An account of the Birds and Mammals of the San Jacinto area of 

 Southern California, with remarks upon the behaviour of geographic 



