Dr. E. Hopkinson—The Greenfinch in Captivity 175


same date Teschemaker also bred some “ Greenfinch X Himalayan

Siskin hybrids ” which were different to his. Shore Baily’s hybrid

was exhibited at the L.C.B.A. Show, 1914, and figured in Bird Notes

(1915, p. 11). The figure suggests in shape the more Greenfinch-like

spinoides rather than tibetanus. More evidence and more records

are needed. On what we have at present to go on, I take it that the

spinoides hybrid has certainly been bred, and perhaps the tibetanus

ones as well, for Teschemaker’s hybrids may well have been this, as

he recorded the breeding of Spinus tibetanus about that time.

Greenfinch x Himalayan Siskin ( Hypacanthis spinoides (Yig.)).

See above.


Greenfinch


Greenfinch X -■ hybrid.


Himal. Siskin


Bred by Bright in 1920. See B.N., 1920, 178.


Greenfinch


-hybrid x Greenfinch.


Himalayan Siskin


Bright records the rearing of two young hybrids in 1917 (B.N.,

1917, 195). He gives the cross the other way round, but Page records

it as above. Which was correct ?


Chinese Greenfinch x Himalayan Siskin (H. spinoides).


Shore Baily in B.N., 1919, reports the rearing of six young hybrids

of this cross. He evidently had males of both the European and Chinese

Greenfinches (see above under No. 2).


Chinese Greenfinch X Goldfinch.


Were bred at the Zoo, fertile hybrids which crossed again with the

European Goldfinch, teste A. G. Butler, i, 138. But I believe that the

hybrids were really the other way round, Goldfinch X Chinese

Greenfinch.


The above hybrid X Goldfinch, teste Butler ; again I think it

was vice versa.


Greenfinch x Chaffinch.


Recorded by Page, but I think that his statement was based on

B.N., 1912, 215, where the cross the reverse way is recorded. I have,

however, a letter from the late Mr. G. Crabb, in which he tells me that

he had (in 1919) a specimen of this cross in his collection of skins, which



