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was bred successfully in the Royal Aviaries at Sofia for


sixteen years.


Add : 523. i, Black Kite (Milvus migrans (Bodd)). Bred

at the Zoo in 1929, teste Report.


524. Kestrel. For the record as it stands, read : In A.M.,

1896, 77, St. Quintin records the successful rearing of

Kestrels for two years running. Nzig. ( Einh ., p. 466)

says “ has been bred once ”.


Add : 524. i, North American Black Vulture (Coragyps

urubu (V.) ). Bred at the New York Zoo between 1917

and 1926 teste Crandall’s 1927 List. (Whitley thinks

“ C. atrata ” has been bred at the London Zoo.)


525. Eagle-owl. Add: Miss Chawner again attained

success in Mr. Spedan Lewis’s aviaries and records in A.M.,

1928, 195, the rearing there of one young one of the Virginian

Race ( B . b. virginianus). N.B.—The Arundel-bred birds

were also almost certainly of this race. With Whitley the

typical form has reared young each year since 1930. See

also A.M., 1928, 251 (Gurney—an early record) and 1929, 262.


527. Snowy Owl. For the entry as given read: Bred by

St. Quintin on two occasions about 1898 ; see A.M., v, 72,

182, teste Editor, A.M., 1926, 341. Meade-Waldo tells me

that he also bred them about the same time.


528. Scops Owl. Add to references : A.M., 1900, 77.


Add: 530. i, Boobook Owl (Syrnium boobook (Lath.) ).


Bred by Eleay in Australia in 1926, teste the Editor of the

A.M. (1926, 339) quoting the October Emu.



