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1933, in the A.O.V. class, and also a young hen bred from

the cock exhibited and an imported hen. Authority, the

Cage Bird report of the Show.


p. 187. Add to the Angola Singing Finch entry. Teague (in lit.,

November, 1932) tells me that he bred some Angola Singing

Finch X Canary hybrids in 1928 and that one (at least)

of the young birds, which was sent to Horley, was still alive

in 1932.


p. 14. The Cape Canary entry, No. 65, requires amendment, for

Teague tells me (November, 1932 ) that he bred them “ Quite

freely in 1927 and 1928, and sent to other people two pairs

of the young he reared.”


p. 20. Add: Lapland Bunting (Calcarius lapponicus (Linn.)).


Teschemaker sends me (14th February, 1933) some extracts

from his old note-books, among which is the breeding by him

of this Bunting in 1916. Three young were hatched, one

of which lived in his aviary for a year or more. Details were

sent at the time (about June) to the correspondence columns

of Cage Birds.


p. 20 and A.M., 1932, 151. Harris’s Sparrow. From an account

of the discovery in the Auk., 1932, 166, the nest and eggs

were found in the spring of 1931, i.e. earlier (not later as

I wrote) than Shore Baily’s success.


p. 197. a, Indigo Bunting x Canary. One of the hybrids bred by

Thomasset in 1915 was still alive and well in 1929 when

I saw it.


p. 26. No. 116. White-winged Whydaii. Teschemaker writes

(14th February, 1933) that the young went to Dr. Amsler,

and that full details were sent to Cage Birds at the time.


p. 33. Painted Finch. No. 145. In a Summary issued in 1932, the

Painted Finch was marked with a query. Teschemaker asked

me why and, on looking up the records again, I find I was

following a wrong trail—a sentence in a more recent note in

the Magazine on this bird. I now see that both the records

given can stand. Mathias bred his birds from “ Willford’s pair ”

(his old pair or those he bred ?—E,H.); the young “ left the



