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rumped Serin (which. I take to mean the Angola) x . . .

Canary. . . .


p. 14, No. 67. St. Helena Seed-eater. For from No record . . .


(1. 2) read No record for the United Kingdom till Shore-Baily’s

success in 1925 and 1926 [see A.M., 1926, 328). Neunzig

gives nothing further for abroad, except as to hybrids.


p. 188, No. 64, e. Grey Singing Finch x Canary. A recent success

is recorded in A.M., 1927, 278. (Hartley.)


p. 188, No. 65. Add: Cape Canary X Canary. This cross has

been reared by Teague, teste Teague, A.M., 1932, 84, and

also vice versa.


p. 188, No. 68. Add: f. Green Singing Finch x Greenfinch.


One reared by Gilpin in 1930, teste Gilpin, Cage Birds,

6th September, 1930.


p. 190. Canary hybrid Records, a, b, and c. But are not these

records errors (clerical or otherwise) for the common crosses

the other way ?


p. 19. Add No. 88, i. Yellow-breasted Bunting [Emberiza

flaviventris Steph.). In A.M., 1930, 340 A. Martin puts on

record his breeding of this species in 1911, a full report of

which was sent to Canary and Cage-bird Life at the time.

The one young bird reared was shown when a year old at

Kettering.


p. 19. For “ saharce ” read “ sahari ” ; delete the last para, of the

record and read instead: In 1926 Arnault succeeded in France ;

see UOiseau, 1927, 28. “ Le premier elevage du Bruant

stride en captivite.” This in view of Meade-Waldo’s earlier

success should be amended by the addition of 44 en France ”.


p. 20. Add: 94, i. Harris’s Sparrow, Z. guerula (Nuttall). Bred

by Shore-Baily in 1931 ; see A.M., 1931, 252. The first

success anywhere and the first known eggs, though these

were discovered later in the same summer in far North

America.


p. 22. Pileated Finch. Add : More recent successes in the United

Kingdom have been Shore-Baily in 1928 [A.M., 1928, 17) and

Thomasset in 1931 ; two reared [A.M., 1931, 303).



