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as is also a female Red-sided Eclectus paired to a male Grand

Eclectus, and a pair of Eclectus in the large Canal-Bank Aviary

appear to be nesting. In this aviary the two young Leadbeaters’

Cockatoos, mentioned in last month’s Zoo. Notes, are flying and

can hardly be distinguished from the adults. This appears to be

the second instance of this species breeding in captivity, the

former being in Mrs. Johnstone’s aviaries at Rougham Hall,

Suffolk, as recorded in this Journal for August 1901.


On the North Bank a pair of Asiatic White Cranes have a

nest, and are sitting on one egg.


Common Mynahs, Green Cardinals,Wouga-Wonga Pigeons

and Bar-shouldered Doves have young, while a pair of Porphyrios

are sitting.


In the Seal Pond Enclosure a pair of Black-footed Pen¬

guins are sitting. Young Penguins would be very attractive

little creatures, and it .is much to be hoped that the nest may be

brought to a satisfactory conclusion. This species has been

bred on the Continent but never as yet in England.


Besides numbers of young Pheasants, three young

Cholmley’s Rock Partridges have been hatched in the incubator,

as well as a very remarkable hybrid between the last-mentioned

species and the Californian Quail. D. S-S.



THE GIZA ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.


The Report on the above institution for the year 1905 is to

hand, and it is satisfactory to find that the year was the most

important in the history of these Gardens. The Government

increased the subsidy, and thus enabled certain long-wished-for

reforms to be carried out. The price of admission was lowered,

and the number of visitors exceeded that of the previous year by

112,876.


An interesting exhibition has been provided in the form of

a collection of characteristic Nile birds which all live together

in a state of semi-freedom ; these comprise three Whale-headed

Storks, two Saddle-bill Storks, Sacred Ibis, Crowned, Demoiselle

and Grey Cranes, Flamingoes, Egyptian Geese, Spurwing Geese

and Brown-necked Ravens.



