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obtained from a dealer and whose country of origin is unknown.

I cannot find an account of this success elsewhere, but as the

young birds were “ identical with their parents ”, we can

safely consider them fully reared.


p. 160. For Marled Guinea Quail, AM., 1933, 136, read Marbled

Guiana Quail.


p. 263. Add two Turkey Hybrids.


(1) Turkey x Domestic Fowl. At the Natural History

Museum is a skin (or skins) of this cross, the hen being a

Rhode Island Red. They were, I believe, bred in Wales and

have been recorded, but where, I do not know. Can a reader

help?


(2) Turkey X Peahen. Mr. Willet Randal, U.S.A., in the

Game Breeder (N.Y.), January, 1934, 4, in an article on

Goose hybrids, mentions that he has once bred a specimen

of this cross ; five young were hatched, four nearly reached

maturity and one lived for several years. No details are

given and the account reads as if the event had occurred

so long ago that these had been forgotten.



THREE GOOD BOOKS


QUEST FOR BIRDS 1


New books on birds are constantly appearing, but we have rarely

read one that gave us so much pleasure as Mr. W. K. Richmond’s

Quest for Birds, for it is different from the majority of bird books.

The author does not take for granted the truth of all he has read, nor

does he regard as proved the various theories that have been pro¬

pounded to account for the actions of birds. He is a very careful

observer and deep thinker and wishes to prove the why and the

wherefore of bird problems before he accepts them as gospel truth.

He would be the first to admit that he may not always be right in his

views, but his arguments, against the generally accepted territory

theory, for instance, are full of common sense.


1 H. F. and G. Witherby, 7s. 6d. net.



