FOURTH SERIES.

VOL. XI. No. 1.



JANUARY,


1933.



THE



Avicultural Magazine



PAGE PAGE



Officers for the year 1933 . 1


List of Members ... 3


Rules of the Avicultural Society 23


The Society’s Medal ... 26


Frontispiece : The Giant Pitta.


The Early Days of the Avicultural

Society 1


The Giant Pitta, by Sydney

Porter .... 6



On a Recent Visit to the Berlin

Zoo, by J. Delacour . . 21


The Chester Zoological Gardens,

by Denys Weston . . 22


The Breeding of Cabot’s Tragopan

Pheasant, by E. H. Lewis . 24



Breeding of the Splendid

Parrakeet, by S. Harvey . 8


Breeding Results at the Keston

Foreign Bird Farm, 1932, by

E. J. Boosey and Alec

Brooksbank . . .13


Rearing Chukors and Others, by

Capt. Reginald Waud . . 19



Reviews: Australian Grass


Finches; The Great Crested

Grebe Inquiry, 1931 . . 27


Correspondence, Notes, etc. : The

Ways of Parrakeets ; Pheasant

Notes; Cockatiels and Green

Food ; Flightless Cormorant at

the Zoo .... 29



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