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1928, 237, says that he saw in Laverga’s collection of water-

fowl in California a hybrid which looked like this cross.


545a. a, Asarcornis scutulata X Common Duck. Add:

See also UOiseau, 1927, 280.


547. Coscoroba Swan. Replace the bracketed sentence

with : Lord Tavistock confirms this and says that the young

bird referred to and a later brood were reared artificially.


Add: Abyssinian Blue-winged Goose ( Cyanochen


cyanoptera (Rupp) ). First bred by Blaauw in Holland in

1926, four young being reared under a hen ; see the Breeder’s

full account (with photos) in Ibis, 1927, 422.


Add: Orinoco Goose, a, Orinoco x Egyptian Goose.

Finn (A.M., 1928, 50) says that one example of this cross

was exhibited at the Zoo “ some years ago ”.


549. Blue-winged Snow-Goose. Add : , but ? where and

when. The first real record I know is in A.M., 1928, 114,

where Corsan records his success in Canada in 1915 and

mentions other later American successes; the fist in

Aviculture (U.S.A.), January, 1932, gives the National

Zoological Park as one of these.


550. Lesser Snow-goose. For the entry as given, read :

Bred by Blaauw in Holland about 1901 ; see Ibis, January,

1903, and A.M., 1904, 137. This was almost certainly the

first success, though Page includes in among the birds

which have been bred in the U.K. They have since been

bred in the U.S.A. (Jager), teste Crandall’s 1927 List.


561. Canada Goose. Add: The Times reviewer

(2nd November, 1926) points out that this Goose is not

uncommonly bred, and that the records must have been

overlooked.


Add : 563, i, Red-breasted Goose (Branta ruficollis

(Pallas) ). First bred at Woburn in 1926 from a pair out

of a flock which had enjoyed semi-freedom there without

any previous attempt at breeding. Four goslings were

hatched, three of which were reared in an incubator. See

A.M., 1926, 321 ; 1927, 65.



