104 Dr. E. Hopkinson—More Additions to Breeding Records



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Herons, etc.


Two other Ibis hybrids must be added. (1) Threskiornis

molucca tictipennis (Gld.) x T. aethiopicus bernieri (Bp.),

which is recorded in the Zoo List of Birds (Lowe, 1929,

p. 492) as having been bred at the Zoo in 1887. (2) Black¬

headed Ibis ( melanocephala) X Spoonbill, the authority for

which is Heck’s Liebender Bilder . . . (1899), which gives

a series of photos on inhabitants of the Berlin Zoo. One

of these shows a young Ibis-Spoonbill hybrid with its parents,

which was bred in the Gardens.


Add : 632. i, Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias (Linn )).

The list in Aviculture ( U.S.A.), January, 1932, records the

breeding of A. herodias x occidentalis (two races) in the

Washington Zoo.


Add: 636. Night-heron. a, Night-heron x Little


Egret. Hachisuka (p. 61) says that several of these hybrids

have been bred at the Hakazaki Aquarium, Fukuoka, Japan,

and that the hybrids resemble the father. The first record

was T. Kuroda , Tori, iv, 1904.


645. Common Crane. Mr. Seth-Smith (A.M., 1927, 343)

shows that my record is incorrect, for “ there is no doubt

that a chick was hatched at the London Zoo on 23rd June

1863, and that it lived twenty-seven years ”. Tavistock

(in lit., 8th January, 1927) tells me that they were bred at

Woburn to the second generation.


Add : 646. i, Sandhill Crane (M. mexicanus). Has been

bred at the Washington Zoo. teste the List in Aviculture

(U.S.A.), January, 1932.



Waders


p. 140. 657. Southern Stone-Curlew. Add : Whitley reared one

young bird in 1929, which is still alive, and Delacour in

A.M., 1928, 269, says that it has often been bred in confine¬

ment in its own country. See also A.M., 1929, 264.

p. 140. Add: 659. i, Crowned Lapwing (Stephanibyx coronatus).


Three reared at the Zoo in 1929, which were all alive in



