172 Wild Birds in the Giza Zoological Garde?is.


shown. Mr. W. Cook’s Yellow-eyed* and Scimitar Babblers

were both almost new to aviculture and extremely interesting.


This was a wonderful Class, for there were several more

birds of great rarity and interest and one could not help feeling

for the exhibitors in their bad luck at receiving no prize. Mr.

J. Dewliurst sent a very good pair of Mouse Birds or Coley’s,

most difficult birds to keep in clean condition in a cage. A nice

Black-headed Sibia was shown by the same exhibitor. Mrs.

Sandy sent a beautiful pair of Mexican Green Jays, Mr. Maxwell

a Blue-winged Siva,f Mr. Cushing a Pitta, Mrs. Frostick a very

fine Sulphur-breasted Toucan and Mr. Millsuni a Rufous-chinned

Laughing Thrush.


I was very sorry to hear from Mr. Maxwell that his Cuban

Trogon which caused a sensation at the London Cage-bird Show,

had died shortly after it was entered for the present exhibition.


D. S.-S.



WILD BIRDS IN THE GIZA ZOOLOGICAL

GARDENS.


Captain .Stanley S. Flower, in conjunction with Mr. Michael J. Nicoll,

has prepared a very instructive report on the Wild Birds observed in the

Egyptian Zoo. at Giza.


For the last ten years great care has been taken to encourage and

protect the wild birds in these Gardens, with the result that both species

and individuals seem to have increased considerably, no less than 166

species having visited these Gardens of their own accord. I11 song-birds

Egypt is not deficient as has been stated “a visit to the Giza Gardens when

the Nightingale, the Rufous Warbler and the Olivaceous Warbler are in

song will at once dispel this illusion.”


The Report is divided into two sections, viz., Species of birds found

wild in Egypt, which have visited the Giza Zoological Gardens of their own

accord ” ; no less than 155 species being contained in this list, and “ Foreign

Species of birds, which presumably must have escaped from captivity else¬

where in Egypt, which have visited the Giza Zoological Gardens of their

own accord. October 1S98 -October 1908.”


A great many of the species enumerated in the first list are European

species on migration. Even the Fieldfare and the Redwing occasionally go



* An account of this species -with coloured plate appeared in this journal Vol. 1 (N.S.)


page 83.


t Avicultnral Magazine Vol. VIII. (First Series), p. 243.



