170 Bird Notes from the Zoological Gardens.


BIRD NOTES FROM THE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS,



Jan.



The following is a list of the birds received during the

month of January 1904 :


5. x Raven (Corzms corax) .. British Isles,


S. 2 Sulphury Tyrants ( Pitangus sulphuralus)


13. 1 White-backed Piping Crow ( Gymnorhina leuconota)


14. 3 Inipeyan Pheasants {Lophophorus impeyanns)


14. 2 Rufous Tinamous ( Rhyncliotus rufescens)


14. 1 Ring-necked Parrakeet ( Palccornis torqnata) s


20. 2 Herring-Gulls ( Lams argentatns)


22. 1 Barn Owl (Strixflammea)


22. 2 Waxwings (Ampelis garrulus)


26. 1 Crown Hawk-Eagle (Spizaeius coronalus)


26. 1 Philippine Hornbill ( Penelopides ajfmis)


27. 1 Rougli-legged Buzzard ( Archibuteo lagopus)


27. 1 Hybrid Chilian Pintail (bred between


Dafila spinicauda and Pcecilonetta bahamensis)


2S. 2 Kestrels (7 innunculus alaudarius) .. British Isles.


29. 2 Blue-aud-Yellow Macaws (Ara ararauna) .. S. America.


30. 1 Blue-rmnped Parrakeet (Psiltinus incertus) . . Malacca.



S. America.


Australia.

Himalayas.

Argentina.

India.

.. Europe.


.. British Isles.

.. Elurope.


.. Africa.


Philippine Islands.

.. Europe.



The Philippine Hornbill was presented to the Zoological

Society by our member Mrs. Johnstone, and is the first example

of this rare species received by the Society. The Blue-rumped

Parrakeet has not been represented in the collection for some

thirty years. It is a somewhat uninteresting-looking bluish-

green bird, which feeds, Mr. Davison tells us, “on the small

gummy flowers of a plant that always springs up where forest

has been felled and burnt. It goes about in small flocks of

fifteen or more, and is not at all shy or wild.”



