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Correspondence.



THE SOCIETY’S MEDAL.


Mr. W. E. Teschemaker is apparently entitled to a medal

for breeding the Crested Lark, an account of which appears in

this number.


Will any member, who knows of a previous instance of

this species having been bred, kindly communicate with the Hon.

Sec.?



CORRESPONDENCE, NOTES, ETC.



THE WHOOPING CRANE.


Sir, —Since writing the note on “ Wintering Cranes in New England ”

(p. 223) I have some further evidence of the existence of the American

Whooping Crane which a short time ago I thought was either extinct or on

the verge of extinction.


Mr. Charles W. Ward writes me that he saw “altogether about a

dozen Cranes” along the Gulf Coast of Louisiana during February, 1912,

and Mr. Mcllhenny, of Avery Island La., confirms this in a letter to me,

in which he states there are still a few between Vermillion Bay and the

Texas line.


Mr. G. D. Tilley, of Dareiu, Cinn., received one live Whooping Crane

last winter, but I could not find out any details as to the date or place of

capture, nor do I remember where this bird was finally sold.


The above information may be of interest to English aviculturists,

vague as it necessarily is. John C. Phillips.



YOUNG QUEEN ALEXANDRA PARRAKEETS, ETC.


Sir,—I have two more of these hatched from another pair of birds,

There were three, but one died in the nest; why I do not know, for it was

well-grown.


I also have a brood of three young Shamalis, which have left the


nest.


An Orange-headed Ground Thrush has her nest, with three eggs,

built in a small fir tree. The nest resembles a Blackbird’s, but is more tidy

outside; the eggs are large for the size of the parent bird, and are a warm

buff, spotted like a Blackbird’s egg with rufous, chiefly at the rounded

ends; but I have only just peeped at them.


There is also one young Blue Robin ready to leave the nest.


Hubert D. Astley.



