FOURTH SERIES.

VOL. X. NO. 11.



THE



NOVEMBER,


1932.



Avicultural Magazine



CONTENTS



The Parson Finch ( with coloured

Plate) . . . . .265


Breeding the Blue Sugar-bird, by-

Mrs. Dewar Murray . . 266


Breeding the Black-capped Fruit

Pigeon ( with Plate), by Captain

H. S. Stokes . . . 267


The Breeding of Barnard’s

Parrakeet, by Dr. Evelyn

Sprawsqn .... 267


Attempts to breed Violet-eared

Waxbills, by Elsie Robinson 273

The Story of a Quaker Parrakeet

by Sydney Porter . . 275


Review : The Trail that is Always

New ..... 280


Correspondence, Notes, etc. : A

Hybrid Macaw in New Zealand

(illustrated); Extraordinary

behaviour of Queen Alexandra’s



Parrakeets; Bluebirds; Further

Notes on Pheasants; Norfolk

Island Parrakeets ; Bird Lice ;

A Blue Masked Lovebird in

California ; Successful Breeding

of the Crimson Finch; Slugs and

Young Birds; A proposed Stock

Book for Rare Species ; Gapes

and its Treatment; Gapeworms

in Starlings; The Zoo “ List

of Animals ” ; Monauls and

Tragopans; Strange Bird

Friendships; Early Importa¬

tions of Paradise Bird and

Swallow Fruit-Eater; The

Crested Dove at Large ; Birds

from the Amazon; Sexing

Young King Parrakeets;

“ Senegal Finches ”


Officers for the year 1933 .



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