Dr . E. Hophinson—More Additions to Breeding Records 137



Add to end of record : When in Australia in 1930 I found that

they were considered fairly easy breeders there in suitable

surroundings. Smith, at Brisbane, has great success in

an aviary made by enclosing about a hundred square yards

of bush He had 37 young birds reared that season when

I saw his place, and had done about as well in other years,

but when I was there again in 1932 he was having bad luck,

for he had only reared two chicks, mainly owing to rats and

snakes. When the mound is made the hens are shut up in

pens adjoining the main run, as otherwise they hunt the

young about till they kill them; the cock turns over the

mound almost daily, and always loosens the earth over the

eggs due to hatch, so that Mr. Smith says that he must

remember the date of laying of each egg.

p. 165. Add : 806. i, Mallee Fowl (. Leipoa ocellata ( Gld .)). Have

been bred in Australia several times, two breeders being

Bedchambers and Downer of South Australia. I saw


the breeding birds and their five young of the year when I

visited Adelaide in 1932. For a description of this, etc.,

see A M., 1932, 120.


Tin amo us


p. 166. 810. Cinerescent Tinamou. Add: the name cinereus

is, however, again used in the Medal award, A.M. , 1926, 116.


Add: 810. i, Partridge Tinamou ( N . perdivaria (Kiltl .)).

Shore Baily ( A.M. , 1929, 251) records success in 1929.


This lengthy list reaches its end here, but it is really an endless

job, for new records are naturally being made and I am still asking

for more in this line, that is new records, particularly printed ones,

and corrections needed for the old. Notes to the Magazine would be

the most useful.—E. H.



