Recently published Ornithological Works. 545 
Sparrow-Hawk ( Accipiter brevipes). The Pied Kingfisher 
(Ceryle rudis) is the dominant form of the Alcedinidse in 
Egypt; on the 5th of May, 1902, twenty-four of these birds 
were counted in one part of the Giza Gardens. Our 
Cuckoo ( Cuculus canorus) is a “ regular visitor in small 
numbers, in spring and autumn,” but has never been heard 
to emit its characteristic love-note there. Such are some of 
the “ plums ” that we venture to pick out from this 
interesting memoir, which should be in the hands of every 
bird-lover who goes to Egypt. 
60. Gadow’s ‘ Southern Mexico / 
[Through Southern Mexico, being an Account of the Travels of a 
Naturalist. By Hans Gadow, M.A., Ph.D., F.R.S. 1 vol. 527 pp. 
Witherby & Co. Price 18s. net.] 
A well-written record of journeyings in a little known 
part of the world, interspersed with notices of its animals 
and plants, and profusely illustrated by original photo¬ 
graphs, is sure to be an attractive piece of work, and 
Dr. Gadow's volume comes well under this category. 
Though a few 7 English travellers have written about Mexico 
of late years, and a magnificent work on its Biology is now 
nearly complete, that country has been left mainly to our 
cousins on the north side of the Republic, where railways 
and hotels have rendered it easy of access. Dr. Gadow and 
his w 7 ife, however, selected for their investigation the most 
remote portion of Mexico, where the American invader had 
hardly penetrated and “ wild nature ” is in many places still 
almost undisturbed. 
Although it might be suppposed that the 6 ‘ Strickland 
Curator,” even when abroad, would not fail to devote his 
main investigations to birds, Dr. Gadow did not take this 
severe view of his duties, and rather turned his attention to 
the inferior class of Reptiles. Nevertheless we find a certain 
number of “ birdy ” passages in the volume. A lively de¬ 
scription of the curious ways and manners of the <c garra- 
pateros ” ( Crotophaga sulcirostris) is given. This <e funny- 
looking” Cuckoo is ever present in the grassy part of the 
