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i'.liN(;ALESE X NUTMEG FINCH, thore has been more than one note 



al)out it in B.N Henstock, our pubhsher, bred it first, and two 



of the hybrids hved for quite a few years in my aviaries." W.T.P. 



(C) " Re 17b. Cissopsis Icveriana. My record IS the Zoo one. I 

 saw the young- 1:)ird on tlie wing and finding insects . . . for itself." W.T.P. 



(D) " Re 856. So far as I know frontalis has not been bred in 

 luigland : sijiiainifroiis lias lieen l)rcd by several, Teschemaker first." W.T.P. 



(E) •' GOLDFINCH and SISKIN Hybrids." (List 2), " I have seen 

 all these at the large Bird Shows." W.T.P." 



(F) " Spiiiiis irtcricus x CANARY. I have seen this hybrid, but 

 have no detail : — not bred by a member of the F.B.C." W.T.P. 



(G) " LINNET X CUT-THROAT. I saw the hybrid, but we refused 

 a medal for it. as there was so little observed data." W.T.P. 



(H) " HOUSE SPARROW x YELLOW SPARROW." (This 

 cross) " has been bred in England by Suggitt (first) and myself later." W.T.P. 



(I) The " CAPE CANARY (S. canicollis) has been bred." W.T.P. 

 (J) " ZEBRA WAXBILL x AVADAVAT is authentic. It was bred 

 by Dr. Scott .... I have a skin of one of them." W.T.P. 



LIST I. 



RlXORDS OF BlUDS BRKD IN CAPTIVITY, 



which may be considered complete. 



FRINGILLIDAE. 

 GREENFINCH. Fairly frequently. And Hybrids. 



GREENFINCH x HIMALAYAN SISKIN. Hypacanthis spinoidcs. 

 teste Shore Baily, A.M. 1919, 92. 

 x MEXICAN ROSEFINCH, Carpodacus mexicanus 

 X " SIBERIAN ROSEFINCH." See B.N. 1916, 

 206, 256; 1917, Insets, pp 22, 31; 1918, 123. 



2. CHINESE GREENFINCH. And Hybrids. 



CHINESE GREENFINCH x GOLDFINCH. 



CHINESE GREENFINCH 



■ hybrid X GREENFINCH. 



5, HAWFINCH. 



6 YELLOW-BELLIED GROSBEAK, Pheucticus chrvsogaster. 



ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK. 



8. BLACK-HEADED GROSBEAK, Zamelodia melanoccphala. 



9. BLUE GROSBEAK. 



TROPICAL SEED-FINCH, Oryzobonis torridns. 

 Abroad. Holland. Blaauw. See A.M. 1918, 40 



10. WHITE-THROATED FINCH. SporophUa albi'rvln-. 



W'HITE-THROATED FINCH x GREY FINCH. 



11. GREY FINCFI, Sp. grisea. 



