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p. 234. Add: 499. Brush Bronze-wing, a , Brush Bronze¬


wing X Bronze-wing. Several reared by Newman in 1912

and 1914. See A.M., 1929, 3.


p. 113. Add : 501. i, Smith’s Bronze-wing ( G. smithi (J. and S.)).


First breeder Mme Lecallier in France in 1922. See UOiseau,

1923, 234.


p. 114. Add: 505. i, Well’s Dove (L. wellsi (Lawr.)). First


breeder H. Bright ; see account in A.M., 1926, 221.

p. 114. 505. Verreaux’ Dove. Add : Giffard has bred them in

California, teste List in Aviculture ( TJ.S.A. ), January, 1932.

p. 115. 509. Cuban Ground-dove. Add : , and in the Aviculture,


1932, List by Giffard in California recently,

p. 115. 510. Hoary-headed Ground-dove. For the record as


it stands, read : First breeder Mme Lecallier in France in

1925 (see UOiseau, September, 1925). Later in the same

year Ezra also succeeded in England (A.M., 1925, 298 ;

1926, 116, Medal). Decoux has been a particularly fortunate

breeder, for in 1926 all his young hatched were reared ;

see UOiseau, 1925 and 1926.


p. 115. 513. Bleeding-heart Pigeon. For the entry as given, read :


First breeder Delaurier in 1878 at Angouleme in France,

where they bred freely ; for the United Kingdom the first

success was Miss Alderson's in 1893 (see A.M. (2), i, 132).

They have also been bred in America, teste Crandall’s 1917

List. Neunzig (p. 847) writes : “ They start to breed


regularly but do not sit well ; the eggs have been hatched

and the young reared by house Doves, and in this way a

French aviculturist reared more than twenty young from

a single pair.” (This was Delaurier teste Decoux.)

p. 116. 514. Bartlett’s Bleeding-heart Pigeon. Add: In


France Mme Lecallier has bred them, see UOiseau, 1926, 187.

p. 116. 515. White-breasted Ground-pigeon. Add: Ezra bred


them in 1931, rearing two young (A.M., 1931, 330) and they

appear in Crandall’s 1927 List as having been bred in

California by Giffard.


p. 116. Add : 515. i, Buff-iiooded Ground-pigeon (G. xanthonura



