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the mother killed the father. The breeder gives a full account

in A.M., 1934, 222. The first breeding of any Pitta.

p. 85. No. 366. Red-Bellied Conure. For P. vittata (Shaw) read

P. frontalis (V.).


The record of the breeding of Prince Lucian’s Conure given

in A.M., 1933, 44, will have to go, for Delacour tells me that

birds bred by Mme Lecallier were not luciani but “ vittata ”

(i.e. frontalis V.), and that practically every bird imported as

luciani is “ vittata ”. He (Delacour) has once had a true

luciani.


p. 83. No. 357. Black-headed Conure. Add : Whitley tells me

he bred nenday in 1928, but never recorded it.

p. 86. Parrotlets. Additions to breeding records were given, A.M.,

1933, 396. The list of species bred now stands as follows :

No. 370. “ Blue-winged Lovebird ” {Forpus vividus


(Ridgw.) ) (late passerinus).


No. 371. Guiana Parrotlet {Forpus passerinus (Linn.) ), for

which a better name is Green-rumped Parrotlet. It has

been bred by Tavistock.


No. 371. i, Blue-rumped Parrotlet (. Forpus cyanopygius

(Sou.) ). Mrs. Goddard, 1927 {A.M., 1928, 52).


No. 371. ii, Venezuelan Green-rumped Parrotlet (. Forpus

p. viridissimus (Lafr.) ). Bred by Whitley in 1921 and Plath

in Chicago in 1924.


No. 371. hi, Spectacled Parrotlet (. Forpus conspicillatus

(Lafr.) ). A hybrid record, which should be added on p. 225

of Records as Spectacled X Blue-rumped Parrotlet. Bred

by Mrs. Tomlinson in California in 1930 teste Plath.

p. 87. Add : No. 376. i, Green-cheeked Amazon (A. viridigenalis

(Cassin) ).


No. 376. ii, White-browed Amazon (A. albifrons (Sparrm.)).

(Hybrid record.)


p. 225. Add : Green-cheeked x White-browed Amazon. Bred by

Whitley, 1934. Four flew in August and were fine birds by

end of September. All alive November, 1934.

p. 89. No. 384. African Ringneck. Tavistock tells me that Canon



