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cage-birds, which include all the usually kept birds and even such

delicate ones as Nightingales and Long-tailed Tits. He says this

evidence must stand, for it surely is not credible that in law-abiding

England we have such a lot of law-breakers about, as there must be

if all these birds are not bred in confinement. I can give no opinion

on that but, although I wrote in the Preface to the original work that

my object was to give as complete a list of records as possible and let

them stand on their own merits, I feel that the line must be drawn

somewhere, and I do it here, regarding all these advertisements as

business announcements, not records. This may be inconsistent, but

I cannot help that. Nightingales, perhaps, but Long-tailed Tits are

beyond the limit, while “ Linnets in perfect plumage bred in my own

aviaries ”, at Is. 6 d. also takes a low of swallowing. By the way, as

I was asked the other day, is there any really good record of the

Linnet having been bred ?


Now we come to the Additions proper.


In the 1932 and 1933 volumes of the Avicultural Magazine

(pp. 149, 191, 223, 319 ; 42, 79, 99, 131) a record of additions to my

Records of Birds Bred in Captivity (Witherby, 1926) appeared. Since then

more have accumulated and are given here. The arrangement is the

same as in the earlier instalment, the references being to the pages

and numbers of the original work.


p. 3. Add : No. 12. i, Black-throated Saltator (S. atricollis V.).


Bred for the first time by Whitley in 1933 ; three young left

the nest about 1st June ; I saw them in August and think

they are all still alive (September, 1934).

p. 5. No. 19. The reference should read, B.N., 1915, 219, not 239.


p. 7. Add to the Chaffinch entry No. 28 : and Blaauw tells me


(in lit., 5th April, 1933) that he bred the Algerian race (F. c.

spodiogenys) at Gooilust “ many years ago ”.

p. 179. No. 29. Add : A recent record of the rearing of a Brambling-

Chaffinch hybrid appeared in A.M., 1932, 179 (Sweetnam).

p. 9. The Black Siskin (S. atratus (D’Orb. and Lafr.)), it seems,

must be added as No. 38, i, for Whitley tells me (1933) that

a “ Bolivian Black Siskin ( C . atrata) ” was exhibited by

Mr. G. P. Malcolm at the Scottish National Show, January,



