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p. 55. Add: 245. i, Beechey’s Jay ( Cissolopha beecheii (Vigors)).


Bred by Sutcliffe in 1926 ; three young reared ; Medal.

See A.M., 1926, 102, 116.


Bower-birds


p. 56. 248. Australian Cat-bird. Delete the last three lines of

the record ; I inserted this in error.


p. 56. Add to the Begent Bird record ; In Australia Heumann bred

them ; see A.M., 1928, 119.


Wagtails, etc.


p. 58. Add to 257. Yellow Wagtail. Captain Stokes succeeded

again in 1926, rearing one young one. See A.M., 1926, 282.


p. 60. Add : Honey-eaters, and replace the footnote (2) with the entry :


267. i, Garrulous Honey-eater (Myzanthagarrula (Lath)).

Bred by Suggitt (one reared) in 1925—a first. See A.M .,

1925, 266, and 1926,116. Medal. And add another footnote :

Piping Crow\ Frank Finn in his Pets and How to Keej)

Them (1907) says : “ some time ago a pair of pinioned birds

bred in a low-branching tree in a garden in England, . . .

the young were successfully reared, with the exception of one,

which died when just fledged. The case was communicated

to me by Mr. Waterhouse, librarian of the Zoological Society,

and the young bird which died was given to the British

Museum.” Mr. Finn can give no further particulars or

remember which species it was, but is sure it was before

the war. I am afraid now that we shall never know more

of this apparently perfectly good record.


p. 61. Add : Pied Grallina ( Grallina cyanoleuca (Lath)), late picata.


A pair in Ezra’s aviary in 1928 after three failures hatched

out one young bird, which left the nest on 3rd August,

but died three weeks later from an injury to the leg. A

Medal was awarded. See A.M., 1928, 233, and 1929, 198 ;

also L’Oiseau, 1929, 171.


p. 64. 280. Grey-winged Ouzel. Add: Page’s was the first

recorded success, but Whitley tells me he reared two young

in 1906, one of which I saw still alive in 1931.



