180 Recently published Ornithological Works. 
15. Report on the Zoological Gardens, Giza, for 1907. 
[Government of Egypt. Public Works Department. Zoological 
Gardens, Giza, near Cairo. Report for the Year 1907 (Ninth Annual 
Report) by the Director. Cairo, 1908. 30 pp.] 
Like most of the other British institutions which we have 
introduced into the Land of the Pharaohs, the Zoological 
Gardens at Giza seem to be in a very flourishing state. 
Capt. Stanley Flower informs us that the year 1907 has 
proved a t( record ” for the Gardens under his charge in the 
number of visitors, in the amount of gate-money taken, and 
in the increase of the Menagerie. The donations of living 
animals (225) exceeded in number those received in any 
previous year, and among the species which bred in the 
Gardens in 1907 were the Koodoo and the Addax, two fine 
antelopes w'hich are not known to have reproduced their 
kind elsewhere in captivity. A new aviary has been built 
for the Ibises and allied birds, and a new enclosure has been 
made for the Flamingoes. Amongst the birds which bred in 
the Gardens in 1907 were the Crowned Pigeon ( Goura 
coronata ) and Hey's Partridge {Ammoperdix,heyi ). 
We need hardly add that no lover of natural history who 
goes to Egypt should fail to visit the Giza Gardens, which 
are situated on the tram-line leading to the Pyramids. The 
three Shoe-bills ( Balceniceps rex) are still alive and well! 
16. Rothschild on Casuarius bistriatus. 
[Note on Casuarius bistriatus Oort. By the Hon. Walter Rothschild, 
Ph.D. Nov. Zool. xv. p. 392.] 
Mr. Rothschild recognizes Casuarius bistriatus, lately de¬ 
scribed by Dr. Van Oort (see 'The Ibis/ 1907, p. 541), as 
a good subspecies, but maintains that it ought not to be 
compared with C. beccarii, but with C. sclateri. of which it 
is a smaller form. He now enumerates eight subspecies of 
C. galeatus. 
17. Rothschild and Hartert on the Birds of Vella Lavella. 
[The Birds of Vella Lavella, Solomon Islands. By the Hon. Walter 
Rothschild, Ph.D., and Ernst Hartert, Ph.D. Nov. Zool. xv. p. 351.] 
Mr. Meek has now visited Vella Lavella, one of the 
