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(A.M., 1932, 73) that the record of breeding at the Zoo

(as in my Records and elsewhere) is the result of a clerical

error in the Zoo Official List, 1883, “ hatched ?? having

been printed instead of the correct “ purchased Harvey,

of Adelaide, has had great success in 1932 and now has

about a dozen young Splendid Parrakeets flying in his

aviaries.


p. 100. 425. Budgerigar. Blues and all sorts of other colours and

shades except red, are now being bred. About 1925-26 the

prices of blues, etc., soared immensely, £50 a pair or more,

but by 1928 had dropped to about £5, and now except for

extra-special exhibition specimens, they are so commonly

bred that I should think 10 s. may be taken as an average

price.


p. 100. 426. Swift Parrakeet. For the record as it stands , read:


First bred in 1887 by A. Bousse at Fontenoy-le-Sainte in

France ( Neunzig , p. 753, says Belgium.) He had a male

which nested successfully with two females ; one had five,

the other four young, all of which lived to adulthood.

De Brisay, Comely, and others also bred this Parrakeet

successfully; see De Brisay , Dans Nos Volieres . . p. 33.

I know no record for the United Kingdom, but was told when

in Tasmania last year that it had been bred occasionally

there in aviaries.



REVIEWS


COLOURED CHARTS OF INDIAN BIRDS


A series of five charts, each containing a number of coloured figures

of Indian birds, has been published by the Bombay Natural History

Society. Each chart measures 40 by 36 inches, and no less than

210 species are illustrated on the five charts, while Chart No. 5 contains

also figures illustrating the topography of a bird and the various types

of beaks and feet of the different orders. The illustrations are decidedly



