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SALE AND EXCHANGE


Rare Rosy-rumped Waxbills (Estrilda rhodopyga), 55s. pair. Cock Sharna,

40a. Pair Pekin Robins, 17a. 6 d. Hen Red-crested Cardinal, 20a. All acclimatized.

— Thomas Bolton, Trelawn, North Bar, Banbury.


Strong Black-headed Gouldians, bred outdoor aviary, September; three

cocks, 30a. each; three hens, 35a. each; can supply two unrelated pairs. Cock,

1932, reared young last season; 35a.—B. Thomasset, Seend, Wiltshire.


Purple Sugar Birds, cocks 40a., hen 45a.; Yellow-winged, 40a.; Golden-

fronted Fruit-sucker, 40a.; Hooded Siskin, hen 40a. Aviary-bred Pectoralis hens,

17a. 6 d. All cage moulted; perfect. Or exchange Parrot Finches.— Collin,

Tynrodyn, Bangor.


Butler’s British Birds' Nests and Eggs, illustrated Frohawk, 6 vols., 30a.

Butler’s Foreign Birds, Cage and Aviary , 2 vols., 12a. 6 d. Nature, vols. xlvi, xlvii,

bound, 10a. lot. Butler’s Birds, Great Britain and Ireland, illustrations Gronvold,

Frohawk, 2 vols., 25a. Butler’s Foreign Finches, 2nd edit., 75a. Mitchell’s Birds

of Lancashire, 1884, 6a. Morris’s British Birds, 6 vols., 1851, 60a. Ure’s Fancy Pigeons,

2a. 6 d. Handcock’s Birds of Northumberland, 1874, contains Abel Chapman’s

book-plate and pencil notes, 8a. Tegetmeier’s Pheasants, 1904, 3a. Blackburn’s

Birds from Moidart, 3a. Adams’s Favourite Song Birds, 2s. Yarrell’s History British

Birds, 1871, 4 vols., 30a. Bird Notes, 1910, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, bound, 7a. 6 d.

each; 1921,1922, 1923, 1924, unbound, 10a. lot. Cage Birds Annuals, 1907, 1909,

1912-1917, 1930-4, 13 vols., 8a. lot. Seebohm’s Birds of Siberia, 1901, 7a. Od.

Astley’s My Birds in Freedom , 10a. Tavistock’s Parrots, 13a. Seth-Smith’s Parra -

keets, 1913, 35a. Green’s Parrots in Captivity, 1884, 3 vols., 50a. Beetham’s Home

Life Spoonbill, 4a. Evans’s Birds, 1899. Cambridge Natural History, 12a. Jardine’s

Naturalist Library , Selby’s 2 vols. on Parrots, Swainson’s Birds West Africa ,

worn copies, 5a. lot. Adams’s Humming Birds , 5a. Farrar’s Birdroom and Aviary,

also Through Birdroom Window, 5s. each. Green’s Birds I have kept, 3a. Dewar’s

Bird Calendar Northern India, 4a. Russ’s Speaking Parrots, 2s. 6 d., soiled. Morris’s

Letters to The Times, 2a. 6 d. Ten vols. Buffon’s Natural History, 1742, 20a. Marriot’s

Parrot Keeper's Guide, 2s. Bechstein’s Cage and Chamber Birds, 1900, 4a. Gedney’s

Foreign Cage Birds, 2 vols., 10a. Dewar’s Jungle Folk, 6a. Johns’s British Birds ,

Rev. Raynor’s copy with hundreds of marginal notes, 6a. Green’s Favourite

Foreign Birds, 2a. fad. Lumley’s Pigeons , 2a. 6c?. Fletcher’s Dragoons , 2a. 6 d.

Tegetmeier’s Pigeons, 3a. Poultry Book, 1873, 5a. Avicultural Magazine, bound

Vol. II, 1896 to October, 1912,17 vols., 6 gns.; unbound 1924, wanting October,

4a.; 1925-6, 10a. ; 1927, wanting January, February, 3a.; 1928 to date, 7a. 6c?.

per year; also Index Guide, 7a. 6 d .; 1930, except March, 4a. — Norcross,

“ Normanhurst,” Mount Road, Middleton, Lancs.


Pheasants, Impeyan, Swinhoe, Amherst (pure), Golden.—-H. Spencer, Yew

Court, Scalby, York.



WANTED


Royal Starling cock, Spreo Starling hen. Pheasants, Monaul hen, Koklass

hen. Paradise Shelduck, pairs of Flamingoes, Penguins, Cranes, Storks, Trumpeters,

hens.— George Blay, The Manor House, Ditton Hill, Surbiton.


Adult Tragopan, Elliot and Peacock Pheasants; also wanted hens in

exchange for cocks, Impeyan Pheasants and Swinhoe Pheasants.—H. Spencer,

Yew Court, Scalby, Yorks.



