Dr. E. Hopkinson—More Additions to Breeding Records 319


(Temm.) ). This has now been bred in England. Lord Tavistock

has reared four and gives a full account in A.M., 1934, 261.

p. 229. Add: Barnard’s Parrakeet x Redrump. One was bred

at the Zoo in 1933 and reared teste the Report. When in the

nest it was at first thought to have a Budgerigar as one of its

parents, but its appearance disproved that. I saw it in August,

a strong-flying youngster.


p. 230. Add: d, Redrump x Hooded Parrakeet. Seth-Smith in

A.M., 1933, 366, says one was bred at Keston in that year.

The hybrid bred by Whitley, 1931, was Bluebonnet x Red-

rump, not Bluebonnet x Crimsonwing as stated in A.M.,

1933, 51.


p. 104. No. 446. Canarian Pigeon. Emend the name to C. junonice

Hartert, 1916, as laurivora Webb and Berth. = trocaz. Heine-

ken, the Madeiran Pigeon.


Add : No. 446. i, Bolle’s Pigeon ( C. hollii Godman). Was

bred at the London Zoo in 1888, teste Newman. A.M., 1929,186

(= Aviculture , iii, 643).


No. 448. White-throated Pigeon. Emend the name to

C. halmaheira (Bp. 1855) as albigularis Bp. is preoccupied,

p. 231. Add a footnote : Allen Silver [A.M., 1934, 274) reports the

breeding of a hybrid Domestic Pigeon x Stock Dove ; of

two hatched one was reared for a short time after it left the

nest, but as it had defects in the legs was then killed. This is

the only record of this cross of which Silver knows,

p. 104. No. 451. Mourning Dove (Z. m. carolinensis (Linn.)). Captain

Stokes in A.M., 1934, 188, reports the rearing of a young bird.

Is this a first for the United Kingdom ? As far as I know,

it is the first recorded.


p. 105. Add : No. 455. i, Galapagan Dove ( Nesopelia galapagoensis

(Gld.) ). Some brought by Lord Moyne to the Zoo in 1933,

which nested that year, rearing two young birds, teste Zoo

Report. They did nothing in the following year,

p. 107. No. 468. Cape Turtledove. Add : The East African race,

S. capicola tropica (Rchw.)) was bred by Miss Alderson teste

Newman, A.M., 1929, 208.



