Records of Birds which have bred in Captivity. 57 
Records of Birds which have Bred in Captivity. 
Bv Dr. E. Hopkin'son. D.S.O., ALA.. .M.i;. 
I'"()r ;i ,L;uod many years 1 have been notiny dow n records 
of the different species of birds which have been bred in cajjliv- 
ity, taking;- as my starting point the hst given in Russ' great 
work on " Cage-Birds " — Then in 1914 appeared Mr. i'age's 
" Si)ecies which have reared young etc." which at once supphcd 
a niucli larger volume of material and a record right up to the 
date of publication. In this comprehensive work the writer 
gives two lists, (i ) " Species reared in (ireat Britain;"' (2) " Hy- 
brids reared in Great Britain " and an Appendix containing lists 
of species and hybrids reared abroad (i and ii), and (iii) canary 
crosses. These 1 have taken as my basis here and on them en- 
deavoured to build up a record as complete as possible to date, 
(the end of 1916), and at the same time to supply what was 
laecessarily missing' in them, namely, references to the events 
recorded which could be verified or the reverse. 
Whenever I have been able, the references I give are to 
the original account, but as in many cases such are unknown to 
me. I have had to content myself with the next best, a cjuotation 
from some book or paper referring to the event in question. 
Where I could, too, 1 give the reference to the first success. bu.t 
a record of these, as such, has not been my real object, for this 
is, as indicated by the title, to make a record of the birds which 
have reproduced themselves in captivity at some time or other 
without any necessary reference to the first occasion or first 
breeder, though these particulars are of interest and are inserted 
where known to the writer. 
The plan of the record is as follows : 
First comes the English name, (the one in most general 
use), and then the Latin one, that used in the British Museum 
Hand List. The first entry of the name is in most cases the 
letters " WTP," which denote that the record appears in Mr. 
Page's book. Next comes a reference to the breeding of the 
species in Great Britain. This is succeeded by the foreign record, 
in most cases from Russ, but in these I cannot claim even the 
attempt at completeness aimed at in the British records. The 
