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been obtained with males of the Rosella, Bauer’s, and Red-

rump Parrakeets.


p. 228. 402. Rosella. a, Rosella x Mealy Rosella. Add:


which no doubt deals with the hybrid bred by Arthur in

1891 and exhibited at Preston Show. See “ Parrots ”

[Cage-birds Handbook, 1927) by Finn and Arthur.


p. 290. Hybrid entry . 402. Rosella. To the list of male parents add :


the Yellow-bellied Parrakeet and the Barraband, the last

teste Tavistock’s Parrots . . . p. 198. (But which way

was it ?—E.H.)


p. 94. Add : 403. i, Brown’s Parrakeet (P. venustus (Kuhl) ).


Tavistock records success in 1928 in A.M., 1928, 234, and

says that it had been previously bred in Fifeshire by Miss

Drummond, who published an account either in A.M. or

B.N., but this I cannot find.


p. 229. 403. Stanley Parrakeet. Add : b, Stanley x Pileated

Parrakeet. Prestwich in A.M., 1930, 29, puts on record

that two such hybrids were reared by Patrick in California

in 1929.


p. 95. 404. Pileated Parrakeet. Add: They were bred in

California by Dr. Leon Patrick in 1930 ; see A.M. y 1930, 335,

and L’Oiseau, 1931, 715.


p. 95. 406. Yellow-naped Parrakeet. Amend the entry: First

success, the Zoo in 1912 ; that at the Zoo in 1862 given

by Neunzig is an error.


p. 229. 495. a , Barnard’s x Yellow-naped Parrakeet. Add:

Also reared by Whitley in 1927.


p. 230. 408. Bluebonnet Parrakeet. Add: 5, Bluebonnet x

Crimson-wing. Whitley in 1931, teste Whitley in lit.

30th July, 1931.


p. 230. Add: 416. Elegant Grass-Parrakeet and 418. Tur-

quoisine. 416. a, Elegant x Turquoisine. Neunzig

(p. 751) says that “in 1879 a hybrid Elegant and Tur¬

quoisine was bred ”, but not where, nor definitely that

the cross was this way.


p. 98. 419. Splendid Grass Parrakeet. Seth-Smith has shown



