no 



feather. The cross itself is not perhaps so difficult to 

 get, and it has been recorded on more than one 

 occasion, but in this particular case there is a point of 

 some interest. In the same compartment as in which 

 the grey male and green female parents of these 

 hybrids are living, there are also three other Green 

 Singing Finches, a cock and two hens. It is usually 

 thought that it is impossible to hybridize with any hen 

 so long as a male of her own species is in the same 

 enclosure, but here at any rate that rule has been set 

 on one side, for not only are the two households pal- 

 pably quite distinct, but the young birds also show 

 their parentage beyond any dispute. 



PERSONAL :— The readers of Bird Notes will join 

 with me in congratulating Dr. D'Kvelyn on his having 

 escaped the dangers and terrors of the awful fire at 

 San Francisco, so graphically described in the paper 

 he has been kind enough to contribute to our pages. 

 At the same time our sympathies go out to him for his 

 loss of home and all worldly effects, and also our hopes 

 that he may soon find an enhanced prosperity spring- 

 ing up out of the ashes of misfortune. 



W. Geo. Ckeswkll. 



IReview. 



A Pocket-Book of British Birds. By E. F. M. Elms. Small 

 8vo., cloth, 2/6. West, Newman & Co. 1906. 

 In seeking the suffrages of the ornithological 

 public by the presentation of this little book to its 

 notice, the author deserves every success. Strongly 

 enough bound to stand pocket wear, printed on good, 



