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published Book of King Penguins .” See this for a full and most

interesting account.


No. 678. Black-footed Penguin. Gillespie, as above, says :

“ We have also bred these, ... a large number have been

hatched, but most died when only a few days old. Two chicks,

however, were reared last February and March, and one is

being reared now (December, 1932).”


Whitley’s Brazilian Kails (L . rytirhynchus) were still

breeding freely in 1933.


No. 699. ii, Arabian Chukar. Whitley now (August 1933)

has only one cock left ; he only bred them the first two years,

and now the stock, both pure and hybrid, has died out.


No. 702. Hey’s Seesee. The Nubian race (A.h. cholmleyi

O-G.) has bred freely at the Zoo, teste Seth-Smith, A.M.,

1930, 93 (. Aviculture , iii, 689).


No. 709. Madagascar Partridge. Breeding freely with Ezra,

1933, 1934.—E. H.


No. 722. i y Formosan Bamboo-pheasant. Medal awarded

to Ezra, A.M., 1932, 33 ; he bred them again in 1933.


No. 735. White-crested Kalij. hamiltonii is the correct

specific name, and it is not a sub-species, as I stated in A.M.,

1933, 133.


Peacock Pheasant. Emend No. 763 as follows : Peacock-

pheasant (Polyplectron bicalcaratum (Linn.) ) (late Chinquis

Muller). Brisay, in his Dans nos Volieres (1889), p. 4, quotes

from the records of the Jardin d’Acclim., Paris, that these

birds have bred regularly these since 1863 ; another early

French record is in Bull., 1870. They have also been bred

at the London Zoo and in America. In more recent times

Delacour in L’Oiseau, 1932, 6, records the rearing of six

young with him, and from the Ibis, of 1925 (p. 452) we get

the evidence of Shore Baily’s breeding this Pheasant or, more

accurately, a sub-species. Here Dr. P. K. Lowe describes a

new race, P. b. bailyi from three birds, one male, two females,

received from Mr. Shore Baily, which “ were hatched in his

aviary and are identical with the parent birds ”, which were.



