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Reviews.



REVIEWS.



GAME BIRDS OF SOUTH AFRICA. *


Major Horsbrugh, a well-known ornithologist and sports¬

man and member of our Society, is to be heartily congratulated

on the first part, of his very practical book. It is obviously

written by one who knows the birds of which he writes, and by

condensing the description, distribution and synonymy into a

few concise lines he is able to tell us something of the habits,

food, method of approaching them from the sportman’s point of

view, and what is perhaps of most interest to us, how' they should

be treated in captivity. The author is a keen aviculturist, and

even with species which he has not kept, his suggestions founded

on observations made in the field cannot but be most valuable

to those who may be fortunate enough to procure any of the

species mentioned. The coloured plates which accompany every

species, and of which sixteen are included in the present Part,

are most accurately and carefully done and well reproduced, so

that the wrong identification of any species should be an im¬

possibility. Our only criticism of them is that the figures have

been drawn rather too large for the size of the page, and in some

cases, where both sexes are shown, the attitudes due to the

exigencies of space are rather awkward.


We can thoroughly recommend this book, which gives the

maximum knowledge about each species in the minimum of space.



WILD BIRDS OF THE GIZA GARDENS, f

The first list of the Wild Birds of Giza Gardens, which was

published in 1908 in response to the numerous enquiries from

visitors, was soon sold out, and the present list with alterations

and additions forms a second edition. The Gardens occupy some

52 acres, and in this space no less than 1S7 wild species have been

observed ; the majority of these are migrants or winter residents,



* The Game Birds and Water Fowl of South Africa, Part I, by Major Boyd Horsbrugh,

with coloured plates by Sergeant C. G. Davies, to be completed in four parts. London :

Witherby & Co. 21/- net.


+ Wild Birds of the Giza Gardens by Michael J. Nicoi.l. Cairo: Printed at The

National Printing Department. Price : 10 p.t. or 2/-.



