46 Dr. E. Hopkins on—More Additions to Breeding Records


p. 89. No. 384. African Ring-neck. Add to the record: Lord

Tavistock tells me that he remembers Canon Dutton

breeding the African Ringneck some years before the war.


p. 89. Add: 384. i, Derbyan Parrakeet ( Psittacula derby ana

(Fraser) ). Bred by Dr. Leon Patrick in California for the

first time in 1930, two young being reared ; see Aviculture

(U.S.A.), Nov., 1930 (teste AM., 1931, 23) and UOiseau,

1931, 73, where the award of the French Medal for a first

success is announced. Dr. Patrick tells me (15th August,

1932) that he bred them again in 1931 and 1932, one of the

1930 cocks being the father of three of the 1932 birds.


p. 90. Add: 386. i, Malabar Parbakeet (. Psittacula peristerodes

(Vigors) ; late columboides). First breeder : Tavistock in

1927 ; four young reared. In the previous year one young

one had been hatched, but only to live ten days. See

UOiseau, 1928, 36. In 1931 Ezra reared a brood (AM.,

1931, 236).


p. 90. 387. Vernal Hanging Parrakeet. Delete the last three

lines of the entry and add as a footnote: From D.G. W., 1908, 367

and Nzig ., p. 734, it appears that Mme J. Prowe of Moscow

was almost successful in 1907 in rearing the Blue-crowned

Hanging Parrakeet (L. galgulus (Linn) ), for one chick

was hatched and lived thirty-two days. This is probably

the “ breeding in Russia, Gef. Welt, 1907 ”, mentioned by

Shore-Baily and referred to in an editorial note in UOiseau,

1926, 107.


p. 91. 389. Black-tailed Parrakeet. For the record as given read :


The first to breed the “ Rock Peplar ” in the United Kingdom

was Mrs. Johnstone in 1903 ( AGB., ii, 208), but they had

been bred many years before in France ; see Brisay, Dans

Nos Volieres. They have been bred fairly often more recently

and on both sides of the Atlantic.


p. 91. 390. Alexandra Parrakeet. Add: Ezra in 1931 reared

a brood of four from a pair he had received the previous

winter ; full account by the breeder, AM., 1932, 9.


p. 227. 390. b, Alexandra x Crimson-wing Parrakeet. For



