Dr. E. Hopkinson—More Additions to Breeding Becords 149


MORE ADDITIONS TO BREEDING RECORDS


By Dr. E. Hopkinson, C.M.G., D.S.O.


A first list of additions to my Records of Birds Bred in Captivity

(Witherby, 1926) appeared in the 1930 volume of the Magazine (p. 18).

More information having accumulated, the time seems ripe for another

instalment, to include both Addenda and Corrigenda. The pages

referred to are those of the original volume, and the numbers also

indicate the position any new entry would take there.


Preface, p. ix, 1. 7. For the De Brisay paragraph , read : The records

given in various books by this author. Colombes Exotiques,

Paris, 1888 ; Dans nos Volieres, Paris, 1889 (Game-birds,

Parrakeets, etc.) ; Les Passereaux (? date) ; Insectivores

Fibres et Captifs (? date) ; L’Aviculteur chez VEleveur (? date),

p. ix, 1. 14. For “ Two lists . . . etc., . . read : Three lists of birds

which have been bred in the United States compiled by

Lee S. Crandall in 1909 (Bidl. N.Y. Zool. Soc., p. 580, 1917

(p. 1447) and 1927 (p. 37).


(Lists of species bred in America have also appeared in recent issues

of Aviculture, the Journal of the Avicultural Society of America.)


Lists of many hybrids are given in Hachisuka’s Variations Among Birds,

in English, but published in Japan, 1928. Some of them are new to me; when

mentioned below, these appear as Hachisuka, 1928.


Finches


p. 1,1. 3, of No. 4. For 1934 read 1924. I should very much like more

information about this record ; Mycerobas has so rarely been

imported.


p. 2, No. 8. Bose-breasted Grosbeak. Add: Whitley bred them

easily in 1926 and 1927 ; in one case four young were reared

from one brood.


p. 3, No. 5. Black-tailed Hawfinch. Add: But a recent success

(three young reared) is recorded by C. W. Greatorex in

Cage Birds, 20th April, 1929.


p. 3, No. 10. 1876 was the date of Buss’s success with cyanea.


p. 3, No. 10, i. Add: Lazuline Grosbeak, C. parellina (Bp).


Decoux says ( A.M., 1924, 95) that it was bred in France



