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Cock Swinhoe’s Pheasant-tailed Pigeon, hen Black-tailed Hawfinch, Yellow-

billed Cardinal (sex uncertain).—Capt. Reeve, Leadenham House, Lincoln.


Impeyan, Swinhoe, Amherst, Reeve’s, Golden, Silver Pheasants, Bamboo

Partridges, Budgerigars, various colours ; price on application.—H. Spencer,

Yew Court, Scalby, Yorks.


Dark Golden Pheasants ( Thaumalea picta var obscura), the most beautiful

fancy Pheasant; rare ; adult 40s., young 30s. ; guaranteed pure Amhersts,

adult 45s., young 35s. Manchurian Eared Brown, young 60s. each; franco

here, also Swinhoe, Golden, Silver ; good opportunity for refreshing of blood.—

Paul Schmidt, Senta, Yugoslavia.


Rosy-billed Ducks, 40s. pair ; Bahama Pintails, 60s. ; Wigeon, 30s.; Gadwall

25s. The above are 1934 hatched birds and pinioned. Golden Pheasants, 40s.

pair, in full colour.—Sir Charles Langham, Tempo Manor, Ennis Rillen, Ulster.


Amazon Parrot, talker, non-screecher; splendid condition; £9 9s.— Lady

Essex, Wingrave, Aylesbury.


Adult pairs aviary-bred Red-headed Parrot Finches, £12 ; Tricoloured, £8 ;

Pintailed Nonpareils, £2 10s. ; young Red-headed, £5 each (or exchange) ; pairs

adult Zebra Finches (some pairs averaged twelve young 1933), 17s. 6d. ; Guttural

Finches, 15s. ; Cuban (reared young 1934), £2.— Sweetnam, The Vicarage,

Taunton.


Avicultural Magazine, Volumes 8, 9, 10, 11, 1930-33 ; complete, unbound.—

Mrs. Archer, The Gate House, Abberton, near Colchester.


Butler’s Foreign Finches in Captivity, 60 hand-coloured plates ; first edition ;

very scarce ; also second and third editions ; Baker’s Indian Pigeons and Doves ;

Lucas and Le Souef’s Birds of Australia ; Royal Natural History, six volumes ;

Scherren’s Zoological Society of London ; Peel’s Zoological Gardens of Europe ;

Hudson’s The Naturalist in La Plata ; Sibree’s A Naturalist in Madagascar;

Dewar’s Bombay Ducks ; Wallace’s Malay Archipelago ; Pouchet’s The Universe ;

Browne’s Scientific Taxidermy. —John Frostick, 303 High Road, Streatham

Common, S.W. 16.


Purple Sugarbirds ( Coereba cceruled), extremely rare; privately imported by

me; few young cocks for disposal, 50s. each; probably one or two adults in

colour arriving 1st Nov., 70s. each.—C. H. Heal, Stanley Villa, Paulton, Somerset.


Aviary-bred Zebra Finches, 12s. 6d.; Cordon Bleu, 10s. 6d.— Dennis, Holme

Manor, Pulborough.



