640 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



from Kordofarij and a Slender-billed Gull (Larus gelastes) 

 from Lake Menzaleh. 



A new Museum oi Natural History is being constructed 

 in the Gardens^ and the zoological collections formerly pre- 

 served in the Egyptian Government School of Medicine at 

 Cairo have been handed over to the care of the Zoological 

 Service. Doubtless, Mr. Nicoll and Mr. Bonhote will be able 

 to get together and arrange for exhibition and study a good 

 representative collection of Egyptian birds for this new 

 institution. 



Uuder the fostering care of the staff of the Gardens, 

 much progress has been made in the protection of birds and 

 the institution of shooting licenses; and the number of Egrets, 

 over a thousand of Avliich were hatched and reared in captivity 

 and liberated in 1913, have increased and multiplied all over 

 the country — a most satisfactory piece of work. 



Foster on the Birds of Hertfordshire. 



[The Birds of North Hertfordsliire, being Notes on the Birds of Hitchin 

 and surrounding District of North Herts. With Tables of Dates of x4.rrival 

 of Summer Migrants since the Year 1908. By Arthur H. Foster, 

 M.B.O.U. etc. Pp. 1-32, 1 pi. Hitchin (Paternoster and Hales), 1914. 

 8vo.] 



Mr. Foster has published his list of 192 species of birds 

 which are known to have occurred in north Hertfordshire, in 

 separate pamphlet form, prefaced by a photograph of a Stone- 

 Curlew approaching its nest, from the camera of Mr. Bicker- 

 ton^ and a few words of introduction by the same gentleman, 

 who has made a speciality of the birds of this county. 



Among the rarer species occurring is the Stone-Curlew 

 already mentioned, which still breeds regularly in one locality 

 in the district. Other birds more numerous here than in 

 any other part of the same county are the Red-backed 

 Shrike^ the Dotterel^ the Hooded Crow^, and the Twite. 



Guryiey's Bird-report for Norfolk. 



[Ornithological Report for Norfolk (1913). By J. H. Gurney, F.Z.S. 

 Zoologist, 1914, pp. 161-182, pi. ii.] 



Mr. Gurney's I'eport of all matters of ornithological interest 



