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p. 26. No. 117. Yellow-backed Whydah. Line 3, after 256, add:

and 1926, 116, Medal).


p. 199. Add: 116, White-winged Whydah. [a) White-winged

Whydah x Grenadier Bishop. Smith of Brisbane,

Queensland, bred and reared one bird of this cross in a large

aviary of seed-eaters. I saw it in January, 1930, and again

in March, 1932. When in full colour it is wholly black, but

when I saw it there was the usual out-of-colour tinge of brown.

In shape it is something between the father and mother, tail

short, bill cream white, with no shade of bluish as in the

father. No red or yellow anywhere. The bird was bred in

1926, so is now six years old ; it is a cock and has tried to

pair with two or three Orange Bishop hens, but with no result.

[Add this hybrid in its proper places on pp. 272, 273.)


p. 31. Correction under 137, West African Quail Finch. It was

Decoux, not Delacour, who was the first to breed atricollis

in France ; he had success both in 1921 and 1922. ( See


L’Oiseau, 1922).


p. 32. 139, Brown-capped Fire Finch. Add to the record : Decoux


bred them in France in 1926; in A.M., 1926, 334 he describes

his success, “ two young reared. The first success in France

though the species had been previously bred in Germany,

seven young having been reared by Neunzig, 1925-26.

(.Bulletin de la Soc. . . . d’Acclim., 1927, p. 24).”


p. 32. Add No. 139, i. Jameson’s Fire Finch (L. jamesoni, Shelley).


First breeder Decoux in France in 1928 in a small outdoor

aviary ; three young reared. See L’Oiseau, 1929, 34.


p. 32. 141. Green Avadavat. Add: Davis (A.M., 1931, 154)

records the successful rearing in a cage of two young birds

in India.


p. 200. Add: 133, c, Bib Finch x Avadavat (? which way). Smith,

when I visited his aviaries outside Brisbane in 1930, showed

me a bird which he had bred the previous year ; he was

certain that the parents were these two species, but as the

event came entirely as a surprise and as there were several

examples of both the parents in the aviary, he could not say



