196 Dr. E. Hoplcinsoiv — More Additions to Breeding Becords


several years. I have never seen any previous record of

this ; will the breeder not provide one and an account of

how he feeds them ? as far as I remember he found them

do best on plain canary-seed.


p. 39. 172. Sydney Waxbill. Add after . . . killed In the U.S.A.,


Judge Mortimer Smith has bred them, teste Crandall’s

1927 List.


p. 40. 173. Rufous-tailed Grassfinch. Line 1, after . . . Nzig.,


363 insert: The first breeder was Taffatz in France in 1894,

teste De Brisay, Insectivores . . . Appendix, p. 248, and con¬

tinue “ In the U.K. . . ., etc.”.


p. 213. 174. Long-tailed Grass Finch, a, Long-tailed Grass


Finch x Masked Grass Finch. Add: I saw one bred

by Harrison in Sydney in 1932.


b, Long-tailed Grass Finch x Black-rumped Bicheno.

Mackie bred this cross in Sydney in 1931, where I saw it.

The mother was a Bicheno—the black-rumped annulosa,

I am nearly certain.


Add: d, Long-tailed Grass Finch x Nutmeg Finch.

Whitley reared one in 1929 or 1930, which was still alive

in 1931 ; it was a bird in which one could safely say even

an expert in hybrids would have difficulty in naming its

parents correctly ; a salient feature was the red bill. N.B .—

The father was the red-billed sub-species hecki.

p. 214. 175. Parson Finch. Add: e, Parson x Zebra Finch.


Bred by Mackie in Sydney in 1931 in a mixed aviary ; I saw

the bird in 1932.


p. 40. 177. Masked Grass Finch. For the record as it stands, read :


“ One of the easiest birds to breed,” says Neunzig (p. 368).

Decoux tells me that according to De Brisay ( same reference

as the Rufous-tailed Grass Finch), Taffatz in France

in 1894 was the first breeder. Continue “ In Great Britain,

etc. (to end) ”.


p. 214. 177. Masked Grass Finch. Add: a, Masked Grass

Finch x Zebra Finch. One bred by Mackie in Sydney

in 1931, which I saw in his aviary the next year.


(To be continued.)



