320 Dr. E. HopJcinson—More Additions to Breeding Records


p. 108. Add : No. 472. i, Indian Euddy Turtledove ( (Enopopelia

t. tranquebarica (Herm.)). Newman (A.M., 1929, 210) says

that he bred them “ some years ago ”.


p. 118. No. 522. i, Lammergeyer. Have been bred at the Sofia Zoo

since 1916 and are still breeding. Details of this, for which

I am indebted to Mr. Grunzig, of New Jersey, U.S.A., I gave

on p. 39 of this year’s volume of the Magazine (1934). Another

account of this remarkable breeding success, supplementary

to that in Der Zooloische Garten for 1928, from which I quoted,

is to be found in Mitteilungen aus der Konigl. Naturwiss. In-

stituten im Sofia, Band i, 1928, 145-155.


Add : No. 524. ii, Condor ( Vultur gryphus (Linn.) ). Bred in

the Berlin Zoo in 1927 and the young one was still alive in

1933 ; two more were hatched in 1928, but did not live, teste

Hampe, AM., 1933, 459.


p. 121. No. 541. Spurwing Goose. Bred for the first time in captivity

at Whipsnade in 1933. I saw the brood (eleven young) in

August, when they were about a month old. The mother had

retired into the wild to lay her eggs, and the first knowledge

of her success was her return to her mate followed by her

large family. She was, I believe, one of the many birds and

beasts sent by Governor Armitage from the Gambia, West

Africa ; if so she must have been the bird I had for a long

time about my Compounds in that part of the world, and

which I then knew as “ Janet ”. A full account with a

photo of the family was given by Seth-Smith in A.M.,

1933, 362.


p. 122. No. 548. Orinoco Goose. First bred at Knowsley, 1844,

as recorded in Gray’s Gleanings from the Knowsley

Menagerie, 1846.


p. 238. No. 559. d, Chinese Goose x Canada Goose. Add : In the

Game Breeder [New York) for January, 1934 (p. 4) Mr. Eandall

records this cross as bred by him (using the white variety of

the Chinese Goose as gander) in America ; the hybrids seem

to be easily reared and are used as decoy birds. The article

is headed “ Canada x White Chinese Goose ”, but the account



