Dr. E. Hopkinson—More Additions to Breeding Records 325


a photo of it on that day. The Medal was awarded

{AM., 1929, 198).


p. 74. 322. Senegal Turaco. Add to record: Stokes reared one


in 1921 and gives a full account in A.M., 1932, 3. Add:


323. i, Donaldson’s Turaco (T. donaldsoni). Bred by

Isenberg in California in 1929, “ four young from three

nests,” teste Aviculture, as quoted in A.M., 1930, 129.


p. 75. After Colies add :—•


Barbets


324. i, Abyssinian Barbet ( Trachyphonus margaritatus

(Biipp.)). Bred by Capt. Beeve in Lincolnshire in 1927,

one young one being reared. See A.M., 1927, 226, and

1928, 52 ; Medal. The young bird was still alive in 1928.


p. 76. 326. Hoopoe. Add after . . . Cork.” Miss Chawner tells


me in lit. (14 th October, 1932) that the young were reared,

for she had a pair of them which lived with her for a year,

p. 76. For the note on the Long-tailed Boller substitute : 328. i,

Lort’s Boller ( C. caudatus lorti, Shelley). Bred by

Whitley in 1929 after several years attempts, to which the

note on p. 76 refers. Whitley tells me that it was lorti not

abyssinicus, as I thought, which he bred.


[M. Decoux has been good enough to send me some corrections

regarding the books by the Marquis de Brisay mentioned in the first

part of Additions to Breeding Records, which appeared in the July

number, p. 149.


These are : (1) The date of Passereaux (there should be no article

Les) is before 1894, which is the date of a second edition. (2) For

U Aviculteur . . . read UAviculture . . . This is a reprint of articles which

appeared 1891 to 1893 in the Bulletin de la Societe d’Acclimatation de

France. (3) Insectivores . . . was published in 1898. (4) As important


as any, the correct spelling of my kindly corrector’s name is Decoux

without an accent.


Will others, who can, help me with further corrections and additions,

particularly records which have appeared in print, for although I have

had to include a certain number of others, printed ones are the real



