132 Dr. E. Ho'pkinson—More Additions to Breeding Records



p. 148. Add : 705. i, Double-spurred Francolin (F. bicalcaratus

[Linn.) ). Mr. Meade-Waldo tells me (1930) that he bred

this species and published a record in an early number of

the Magazine, but this reference has escaped me.

p. 148. 709. Madagascar Partridge. Add : Ezra bred them

(for the first time in the U.K.) in 1931, rearing two chicks

(A.M., 1931, 331).


p. 149. 712. Roulroul. For the record as it stands, read : First

bred and successfully reared by Whitley at Paignton in

1926 ; I saw the two young when about three months old

and they were still alive in August of the following year,

but the mother had unfortunately died. Foi a full account

by the breeder and a coloured plate see A.M., 1926, 321,

and 1927, 253. Although the Roulroul has a place in Page’s

book, the only previous record was one of incomplete

success, Ingrams ; see A.M. , 1908, 38.

p. 151. 722. Chinese Bamboo-pheasant ( thoracica ). Add : Gurney


records success in 1932 in A.M., 1932, 207, a first for the U.K.

p. 151. Add : 722. i, Formosan Bamboo-pheasant (B. sonorivox).


First bred in 1929 by Mme. Lecallier in France ; see L’Oiseau,

1929, 95. In the following year Ezra bred them in England

(A.M., 1930, 289 ; 1931, 81, Medal),

p. 151. Add : 723, i, Western Horned Tragopan (T. melano-

cephalus). Ghigi and Delacour in A.M., 1930, 234, say

“ very rare, but it was bred formerly ”.

p. 256. 724. Add : Temminck’s x Horned Tragopan. Bred by

Delacour in France in 1926 and 1927 ; see L’Oiseau, 1927, 279.

p. 151. 725. Blyth’s Tragopan. For the record as it stands, read :


Ollivray in France bred five young in 1891, teste De Brisay,

L’Aviculture Chez L’Eleveur, p. 82.

p. 151. 727. Eared Pheasant (C. auritum). Add : In 1929

Delacour received a number of “ Blue Crossoptilons ”,

that is this bird. They were unfortunately all males, but

he bred some hybrids from one of them,

p. 257. Add : 727. Eared Pheasant (Blue Crossoptilon), a, Blue

X Brown Crossoptilon (= manchuricum). Bred by



