Bird Notes from the Zoological Gardens.



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BIRD NOTES FROM THE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.



By Frank Finn, B.A., F.Z.S.



So far as we have gone in the present year there has

been a fair number of species added for the first time to the

Regent’s Park collection, as follows :



Jan. 15th.



May Sth.

Apr,. 25th.



Api,. 27th.



June 29th.

Juey 23rd.

Juey 25th.



Sept. 7 th.

Sept. 26th.



Oct. 17th.

Oct. 27th.





1 American Golden Plover, Charadrius


dominions. Captured at sea between Australia and New


Caledonia.



2 Ross’s Snow-Geese, Chen rossi.


5 South African Kestrels,


Tinnunculus rupicolus.


i barge African Kestrel,


7 innunculus rupicoloides.


3 Grey-breasted Bullfinches,


Pyrrhula griseiventris.


1 Long-tailed Rose-finch, Uragus lepidus. ..

3 Whistling Swans, Cygnus columbianus.


1 Sclater’s Crowned Pigeon, Goura sclateri...


1 Himalayan Whistling-Tlirusli,


Myiophoneus temmincki.

1 Lesser Blue-winged Pitta, Pitta cyanoptera.


1 Winking-Owl, Ninox connivens.


2 Gold-fronted Finches, Metoponia pusilla ..


1 Thrush, gen. and sp. inc.


(the female of some Merula , F. F.)


2 Scoreby’s Gulls, Leucophaeus scoresbii.


1 Christmas Island Dove,


Chalcophaps natalis.


2 Wharton’s Fruit-Pigeons,


Carpophaga wharton i.



Arctic America.

South Africa.



Japan.


China.


N. America.

New Guinea.


India.


N. Queensland.

Kashmir.



Southern Chili.

Christmas I.





Owing largely, no doubt, to the wretched weather we have

had this year, the breeding-results have been very poor, but the

following birds have been bred :



Ape. 17th. 2 Black Swans, Cygnus atratus.


June 16th. 1 Brush-Turkey Talegalla lathami.


Oct. 1st. 4 Jameson’s Gulls, Larus novce.-hollandice.

,, 1 Black-headed Gull, Larus ridibundus.


,, 2 White Ibises, Eudocimus albus.


Oct. 19th. 1 Glossy Ibis, Plegadis falcinellus.


Oct. 31st. 6 Black Swans, Cygnits atratus.



