AUGUST


1935



Avicultural Magazine



CONTENTS



PAGE


The Rosy Twin-spot ( with coloured 197

plate) .....


The Breeding of Peter’s Spotted

Firefinch, by Mrs. K. Drake . 198


Lives of Some Aviary-bred Birds

at Mylor, by Mrs. K. Drake . 199


The Parrot Ban and the Future

of Aviculture, by C. S. Webb . 201


My Birds in Scotland, by Mrs.


R. G. Ashby . . . 205


Softbills, by Mrs. R. G. Ashby . 208


Mice in Aviaries, by D. Seth-


Smith .212


Successful Rearing of the Silky

Starling, by Alfred Ezra, o.b.e. 214

Precious has an Adventure, by

Miss B. de Pledge . ~. 215


The History of A 1, by Miss E. F.

Chawner . . . .216



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Bermudan Notes, by Sydney

Porter .... 218


Hard-hearted Hannah, by Dr. E.


Sprawson .... 224


Notes for 1935, by the Marquess

of Tavistock . . . 227


Fertility of Hooded Siskin and

Canary Hybrid, by Dr. Maurice

Amsler .... 229


In a Hampstead Garden, by A.


Sherriff .... 232


New Books : Some Birds of the

London Zoo ; The Birds of Mid¬

lothian .... 236


Mr. Seth-Smith’s Testimonial . 236


Correspondence, Notes, etc., Fur¬

ther Successes at Mylor ; The

Ornamental Pheasant Society ;

Breeding the Ceylon Bulbul;


Birds of a Tasmanian Garden 237



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