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therapeutics, and have little faith in the few remedies I have seen

tried. If what I have written may be some help in the recognition

and prevention of certain common diseases of cage birds, my purpose

will have been accomplished.



MORE ADDITIONS TO BREEDING RECORDS 1


By Dr. E. Hopkinson, C.M.G., D.S.O.


[Continued from page 52)


Pigeons


p. 101. Add: 429. i, Black-capped Fruit-pigeon ( Spilotreron


melanocephalus (Forster) ). Bred for the first time by Whitley

in 1932 ; see A.M., 1932, 267. The one young bird left

the nest able to fly well, though only about a third the size

of its parents and with the body feathers still mostly repre¬

sented by down.


p. 101. No. 431. Red-crowned Fruit-pigeon. Add: see also

Bull., 1917, 416, and L’Oiseau, 1929, 94.


p. 231. Add: 433. Guinea Pigeon, a, Guinea x Domestic


Pigeon. This cross was reared by Whitley in 1929 and

again in 1930 ; I saw the birds, which show their paternal

relationship distinctly.


p. 103. Add : . i, Araucanian Pigeon (C. araucana (Linn.)).


First breeder, Fellay at Maxime-sur-Mer in France in 1922 ;

see UOiseau, 1924, 204.


p. 103. No. 442. Porto Rico Pigeon. Add: Whitley bred them

in 1926 and they have continued to do so with him since.

They have also been bred in the U.S.A. They are ground-

nesters at Paignton.


p. 104. No. 446. Canarian Pigeon. Add: Meade-Waldo (in

lit. 25.1.1930) tells me that he also bred this species about

the same time as St. Quintin and that he also bred Bolle’s


1 The page references and numbers are (as in previous instalments) those of


Records of Birds Bred in Captivity (Witherby, 1926); new records are indicated


by the addition of i, ii, etc., to the record-numbers.



