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shows that the cross was the other way, i.e. Chinese gander

X Canada Goose.


Add: Emperor Goose x Boss’s Snow-Goose. Delacour, in

L’Oiseau, 1931, 731, and 1932, 395, records the breeding with

him of this cross, and Whitley, 1931, has a hybrid, given him

by Delacour, which he thinks Delacour described as a hybrid

Blue Snow Gander x Emperor Goose, but he cannot be

quite sure.


p. 126. No. 573. Eulvous Tree-duck (D. fulva (Gm.)). Captain

Stokes tells me (October, 1932) that Delacour bred this duck

in 1932, rearing a lot under hens.


p. 126. No. 578. Grey-headed Shelduck (C. cana (Gm.) ). The entry

should read : Bred in St. James’s Park in 1930, and by

Delacour in France in 1932, teste Seth-Smith (. A.M. , 1932, 328).

p. 132. Add : No. 612. i, Bed Shoveler (S. platalea (V.)). Delacour

tells me (1934) that this, the South American Shoveler, was

imported in 1933 and bred by Wormald in 1934.

p. 133. Add: Madagascar White-eyed Pochard (. N. innotata

Salvad.). Bred at Cleres in 1934, teste Delacour.


No. 617. i, White-backed Duck ( Thalssornis leuconotus

Eyton). Add to the record in A.M. , 1933,103, Ezra bred more,

(four, I think), in 1933, see A.M., 1933, 361.

p. 134. No. 626. Glossy Ibis. They were bred at the Zoo in 1895,

teste Seth-Smith, A.M., 1932, 328.


p. 135. Add : American Wood-stork (Mycteria americana Linn.,

1758) (late Tantalus loculator Linn., 1766). Bred for the first

time at the Milwaukee Zoo in 1932 ; three young reared.

The parents had been in the Zoo since 1924, but never

attempted to breed till they were put for the winter with

other similar birds into a large, heated, and well-lighted aviary.

Here they started nesting operations in February and hatched

their young on 9th April. In the September the three young

were still flourishing and out of doors. A full account with

a photo of the old and young birds in the nest and a description

of the palatial quarters they occupied appeared in the

September, 1932, number of the Washington Park Zoological


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