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since, and also in Japan (P. c. karpowi) teste Hachisuka,


р. 76. c, Japanese x Ring-necked Pheasant. d,

Japanese x Soemmering’s Pheasant. c and d have

both been bred in Japan, teste Hachisuka. e, Japanese x

Amherst Pheasant. This cross has been obtained in

Tunis by M. Labbe ( L’Oiseau, vol. ii), and also vol. iv, teste

Hachisuka, who saw three of M. Labbe’s birds in 1927.

/, Japanese x Golden Pheasant. In Japan, teste

Hachisuka. g, Japanese Pheasant x Domestic hen.

ditto .


p. 310. Emend the hybrid entry 753 to agree with above, and add the

following male parents : Common Pheasant, Silver Pheasant,

Domestic Fowl (a Bantam cock, teste Hachisuka), and a

hybrid of which the father was a Jap X Golden cross and

the mother a Japanese Pheasant.


p. 260. 754. Soemmerring’s Pheasant. For the entry as it stands,

read: a, Soemmerring’s X Reeves’ Pheasant. Bred

by Delacour at Villers-bretonneux before 1913 ; see B.N.,

1920, 16, and L’Oiseau, 1927, 278. b, Soemmerring’s x

Golden Pheasant. In Japan, teste Hachisuka, p. 76.


с, Soemmerring’s X Common Pheasant. In Japan, teste

Hachisuka (P. c. karpowi ).


p. 157. 757. Mikado Pheasant. Add: , recently quite freely

with Delacour at Cleres, see L’Oiseau, 1932, 7.


p. 261. 757. Mikado Pheasant. Add to a. Hachisuka says this

hybrid much resembles C. humiae. Add to b. : , and L’Oiseau,

1927, 278.


p. 261. 759. Golden Pheasant, a, Golden X Common Pheasant.


Add : Delacour had a male specimen alive, see L’Oiseau,

1927, 279.


p. 157. Add: 761. i, Ceylon Junglefowl (G. lafayetti). Two

broods were reared at the Zoo in 1928, teste Seth-Smith,

A.M., 1929, 24. A first. Have recently been reared at the

Calcutta Zoo.


p. 261. Junglefowl. a, Sonnerat’s x Red Junglefowl. Delacour

says {L’Oiseau, 1927, 277) that these hybrids are easily







