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(Bp.) ). Bred by Mrs. Goddardin 1927 and the Medal awarded

for a first success in the United Kingdom (A.M., 1928, 52).

p. 86. Add: 371, ii, Green-rumped Parrotlet (F. viridissimus

( Lafr .)). Bred by Dr. Plath in Chicago in August, 1924

(teste Plath in lit. 28th October 1952) ; one young bird was

reared which the breeder kept for two years and then gave

away. Whitley at Paignton in 1931 reared a brood of

Parrotlets, which he identified as viridissimus, and this must

be the first record for the United Kingdom. I saw the birds

(old and young) all green and certainly neither what we used

to know as “ Blue-wing Lovebirds ”, which used to arrive

in such numbers from the Argentine, nor the Blue-rumped

Lovebirds bred by Mrs. Goddard which I also saw.

p. 225. 1 Add: The rearing of some Parrotlet hybrids is recorded in

the List given in the January number of Aviculture (U.S.A.).

The record is : Forpus v. vividus X F. ccelestis: bred by

Mrs. Tomlinson in California and the parents identified as

above by Plath.


p. 87. Add : 373. i, Orange-elanked Parrakeet ( B. pyrrhopterus

(Lath.) ). First breeder: W. Lewis in 1925 ; three reared

out of five hatched (A.S. Medal) ; see A.M., 1925, 292 ;

1926, 71, 116.


p. 89. 380. Alexandrine Parrakeet. Add: Ezra in A.M.,

1931, 331, writes that he now has nine blue-bred young

hatched 1929-31, the parents being the blue cock he has

had so long and a green hen ; one at least of the 1929 birds

is a hen, and this should go a long way to the arrival in

the near future of home-bred blues,

p. 89. 383. Bing-necked Parrakeet. Add : Ezra ( same reference

as above) has seven lutino-bred young, but all are apparently

hens, most of whom have laid. Tavistock has this year

(1931) reared two good lutino young from one of his pairs

of lutinos.


1 The generic name of the Parrotlets has to be changed from Psittacula

to Forpus , and that of the Ringnecks from Palaeornis to Psittacula.



