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reared a full brood in 1929, which I saw ; and more in the

next year.


Add to b, Chocolate Mannikin X Chestnut Finch. Heerman

in Sydney reared one of this cross in 1929 ; I saw it in

January, 1930 ; it showed its double parentage distinctly,

p. 37. No. 161. Chestnut Finch. For the first three lines of the

record (Russ . . . record), read: The first breeder was

de Lainsecq in France in 1895. (De Brisay : Insectivores

. . . Appendix, p. 259, teste Decoux in lit., 15th January

1927, who adds that “ Russ’s record of Linden the first

breeder is incorrect ”. Continue : For the U.K., etc.

p. 207. 161. d, Chestnut Finch x “ Bengalese ”. Add : Whitley

bred them freely in 1929—two nests of four and five apiece ;

they continue to breed.


Add: f. Chestnut x Nutmeg Finch. Bred by Mackie in

Sydney in 1931, where I saw it. It was bred in the same

aviary where the Chocolate Mannikin X Nutmeg was

reared. Neither were beautiful to look at, though interesting

for their parentage, of which there seemed to be no doubt,

almost “ no possible shadow of doubt, no possible doubt

whatever ”. In another division of the same aviary was

another Munia hybrid, which the owner believed to be a

Three-coloured Mannikin X Chestnut, though the parentage

was uncertain ; it was certainly some Munia hybrid, quite

unlike the others in this aviary or any I saw elsewhere in

Australia.


Add here or under 164. Pectoral Finch. Pectoral Finch

X Chestnut Finch. Whitley showed one at the Crystal

Palace Show, February, 1927 ; it was not known where

or how it was bred, so which was the father and which the

mother is uncertain.


p. 37. 162. Yellow-rumped Finch. Delete the last three lines of the


record, and read instead : France, Decoux having been able

to record “ at least thirty bred in five years ”. See Bidl.,

1918, 331, and B.N., 1921, 29.


p. 208. Add: Yellow-rumped Finch, a, Yellow-rumped X



