Recently published Ornithological Works. 509 



Flower on Indian Zoological Gardens. 



[Report on a Zoological Mission to India in 1913 by Capt. L. S. 

 Flower, Director Egyptian Government Zoological Service, Pp. 1-100, 

 12 pis. Cairo (Govt. Press), 1914. 8vo. Price 5s.] 



Last summer Capt. Stanley Flower was sent on a mission 

 to India to inspect the Zoological Gardens and other scientific 

 institutions there, to report on the management, and to 

 arrange for exchanges with the Gardens at Giza. In the 

 present report he gives an account of his journeys of nearly 

 8000 miles in India and of the characteristic features of all 

 the collections visited. It is for the most part with the 

 larger mammals and reptiles that he was concerned, but 

 there are many references to birds which should be inter- 

 esting to readers of ' The Ibis.' 



A table on page 6 gives a list of twelve zoological gardens 

 at present existing in India, and of these three were of special 

 importance — Calcutta for its large collections, containing 

 many rare species; Trivandrum, which, owing to the work 

 of Mr. H. S. Ferguson, is a most complete and scientifically 

 arranged institution ; and Peshawar for the admirable way 

 in which the animals are looked after. 



A series of twelve photographs, including one of the aviary 

 in the Peshawar Gardens, illustrates the report, and were 

 mostly taken by Capt. Flower himself. 



Grinnell on Berkeley Birds. 



[A second list of the Birds of the Berkeley Campus. By Joseph 

 Grinnell. Condor, vol. xvi. 1914, pp. 28-40.J 



It is a pleasant practice in the States to set a University 

 or College in an area of open "ground ; this, planted with 

 trees and grass, often forms a beautiful setting to the various 

 buildings. 



The State University of California, which is at Berkeley, 

 situated on the landward or eastern shore of the Bay of 

 San Francisco, on the opposite side to the city of the 

 same name, is fortunate enough to be surrounded by a large 

 park or campus of 550 acres, rising from an elevation of 



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