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nearly every page of the Report. At the stock-taking, in 
November, 797 specimens of birds were counted, referable to 
207 species, amongst which the Pigeons and Parrots were 
most numerous. The new buildings erected in 1909 were a 
new Vulture-cage and a new Crane-paddock. Amongst the 
birds new to the collection were two Egyptian Lark-headed 
Cuckoos ( Centropus cegyptius) from the Fayum. Twenty 
species of birds bred in the Gardens in 1909, and 16 others 
laid eggs but did not succeed in hatching them. 
The collection of Egyptian bird-skins, formed mainly by 
Mr. Nicoll for the purpose of correct identification, con¬ 
tained 1180 specimens on the 31st of December, 1909, as 
compared with 675 at the corresponding date in 1908. 
Capt. Flower has prepared a new edition of his f List of 
all the Zoological Gardens in the World/ arranged alpha¬ 
betically, which is a very useful publication to all those who 
are interested in this subject, and contains the names of the 
Directors of the various Gardens. Over 100 of such institu¬ 
tions are registered in the List. 
11. Fulton on the Bronze Cuckoo of New Zealand. 
[The “ Pipiaharauroa ” or Bronze Cuckoo ( Chalcococcyx lucidus) of New 
Zealand, and an Account of its Habits. By Robert Fulton, M.D. TVans. 
New Zealand Inst. 1909, p. 392.] 
This Cuckoo is a summer visitor to New Zealand, arriving 
at the end of September and, like many Cuckoos, deposits 
its eggs in other birds’ nests. It departs from New Zealand 
in February, and is said to go to New Guinea/’ but more 
evidence on this point is required. Mr. Fulton gives a long 
account of its “ wicked ways/’ and concludes with a list of 
previous authorities on the subject, 48 in number. 
12. Gladstone on the Birds of Dumfriesshire. 
[The Birds of Dumfriesshire. A Contribution to the Fauna of the 
Solway Area. By Hugh S. Gladstone. London, 1910 : Witherby & Co. 
8vo, pp. i-xcix, 1-482.] 
The Solway area, which contains not only Dumfriesshire, 
Kirkcudbrightshire, and Wigtownshire, but also parts of 
Ayrshire) Roxburghshire, and Northumberland, lacks a 
