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The Giza Zoological Gardens.



THE GIZA ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.



Captain Stanley S. Flower, the Director of the Zoological

Gardens at Giza, near Cairo, sends us a copy of the second

edition of the Guide to that institution ; it contains also an

excellent plan of the Gardens. Eighty-five species of Mammals,

126 of Birds, and 41 of Reptiles and Batrachians are represented

in the Gardens at the present time.


We are pleased to note that the three specimens of the

Shoe-bill Stork {Balceniceps rex ) are still alive and well. With

the exception of a specimen living in the Governor-General’s

Palace Garden at Khartoum, these are the only examples known

to be living in captivity at the present time. We give below an

illustration of this remarkable species from Mivart’s Elements

of Ornithology, by the kind permission of the Publisher.



Balce?iiceps rex.



