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obtained and fertile, and Finn ( A.M. , 1931, 177) mentions

two Sonnerat’s X Javan hybrids.


b, Javan X Red Junglefowl. Add : One young one reared

out of several hatched, teste Delacour ( L’Oiseau , 1926, 361).


Add: g, Domestic cock (Bantam) X Japanese Pheasant.

“ This cross was bred in Tokio and is alive now.” Hachisuka,

1928, 49.


Delete “ and the Domestic hen ” at the end of hybrid entry ,

760-762.


763. Peacock-pheasant. Add: In L’Oiseau, 1932, 6.

Delacour records the rearing of six P. chinquis ghigii


in 1931.


Add: 764. i, Palawan Peacock-Pheasant (P. emphanum

(late napoleonis) ). Bred for the first time by Patton in

California in 1930, teste Aviculture ( U.S:A .), of October ,

1930, and the list given in the January , 1932, number.


Add: 765. i, Rheinhardt’s Argus ( Rhenardius ocellatus

(Verr) ). One reared at Cleres by Delacour in 1931, a first ;

another chick lived 10 weeks ( UOiseau , 1932, 6).


M. Jabouille in Assam had once got as far as rearing a

youngster to 40 days (l, c, 1926, 359).


766-768. Peafowl. Add : the two species of Pavo hybridize

easily to the third and fourth generations ( Hachisuka ,

p. 69, where he gives an exhaustive account of Game-bird

hybrids with illlustrations of many, pp. 62-85).


e, Peacock X Fowl. Add : Hachisuka (p. 74) gives a photo

of such a hybrid and its mother, the hen.


769. Guineafowl. a, Guineafowl x Pea-hen. Hachisuka

(p. 72) gives a photo of two of these hybrids and says they

have only been bred twice, once in Germany, once in Italy ;

he gives the reference, A. Ghigi, Monog. di Gallene di Faraone ,

1927, p. 61, Palte, 36.


Add: 773. i, Zambesi Crested Guineafowl (N. lividi-

collis, Ghigi).


773. ii, Mozambique Crested Guineafowl (N. barbata,

Ghigi).



