224 Dr. E. Hopkinson—More Additions to Breeding Records



Australia, but they were wastrels, and although in Singapore

one sees cages full of Gouldians at times, often said to be

cage-bred, the evidence that they are so bred and not wild-

caught birds from Australia is lacking.


In Australian aviaries in different places I saw many

breeding pairs, often bringing off nests of five or more young,

but even there breeders tell me all is not always plain sailing

and stocks may die off after a year or two apparent perfect

success. The general opinion there seems to be they breed

better in indoor than in outdoor aviaries. If that is so in

Australia’s climate, how much more should it apply in ours !


p. 41. 179. Pintail Nonpareil. Line 4 : delete the last five words


and read instead : Decoux tells me that the best account

of the breeding of this species is Horst Wagner’s account

of his success in 1913, which is to be found in the 1914 volume

of Die Gefiederte Welt. They were also bred again in

Germany by Yoight in 1925, and Wagner also bred the

yellow-billed variety. There is no British record, as far

as I know.


p. 42. 180. Parrot Pinch. For the entry as it stands. read : Have


been frequently bred. In Prance the first breeder, according

to De Brisay’s Dans Nos Volieres, was Dr. Henri Adam in

1886, three young being reared, and Comely succeeded

again in the following year. For the United Kingdom

Dr. Butler mentions Wiener (the first teste Buss, in 1877),

Phillipps and others. [The paragraph about the yellow-bellied

variety is an error ; it refers to the Pintail Nonpareil.)


p. 42. 181. Peale’s Parrot Finch. For “ Cyanovirens ” read


“ pealii. Hartl. ”, and for the entry as given, read : Page ( B.N .,

1912, 223, 258, 311) says that “ two young (“ cyanovirens ”)

were reared at the Zoo in 1912 ”, but no such record appears

in the Beport for that year. The species has recently been

bred in California, teste Prestwich, A.M., 1929, 60.


p. 42. 183. Crimson Pinch. Line 4, after “ . . . another ” insert:


In Prance they were bred about 1894 by Taffatz at Chateau-

Goutier and by Forey at Montlucon, teste De Brisay



