314 Dr. E. Hopkinson—More Additions to Breeding Records


1931 and 1932 and that a pair of the 1932 young took a first

prize at the C.P. Show.


p. 216. Grey Waxbill x St. Helena Waybill. Teague writes me

(5th September , 1932) that the entry in A.M., 1932, 225, should

read : “ Teague reared two in 1928 and three in 1929, five

in all; a pair from the 1929 birds were exhibited at the 1930

C.P. Show.” Deferences as given in A.M., 1932.


p. 45. No. 191. i, Violet-eared Waxbill. The entry in “Additions”,

A.M., 1932, 226, can be amplified to read : Teague (in lit.,

4th February, 1933) tells me that “ Mr. Geo. Adlesparre had

these Waxbills breeding in his aviary at Durban, Natal, in

1915 ”, and that he (Teague) saw the young. In Vogel ferner

Lander, 1832, 24, there is a record of success in Germany,

Herr Thiess of Zwenkau being the breeder ; this was in 1931,

and three young were reared. This must be the first record

for Europe, and is the success referred to by Decoux in

A.M., 1932.


p. 49. Add: Festive Tanager (Tangara cyanocephala (Muller) ).


Bred for the first time by Mrs. Pearce in 1934 ; one young

bird reared, thriving, although blind in one eye, at the time

of report to A.M., 1934 (p. 220).


p. 50. and A.M., 1932, 319. Yellow-winged Sugar-bird. A success


in the United Kingdom is now on record, A.M., 1934, 219,

where the breeder, Mrs. Drake, gives a full account of the

event; two young were alive at the time of writing, and had

left the nest, and one was still alive, Mrs. Drake tells me,

two months later (4th September).


p. 50. Add : No. 220. ii, Blue Sugar-bird (Dacnis cayana (Linn.)).


In A.M., 1932, 266, Mrs. Dewar Murray records the successful

rearing of one young bird in 1932 ; it was deserted by its

parents when fourteen days old and after that reared by hand

and was five months old at the date of report.


p. 53. Add : No. 230. i, White-winged Myna (Sturnia malabaria

Jerdon). Bred by Ezra in 1932, a “ first ”, one young one

being reared. See A.M., 1932, 319 ; Medal, 334. More eggs

and young in 1933, but none reared (A.M., 1934, 159).



