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FOURTH SERJES

VOL. XI. No. 8.



AUGUST,


1933.



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THE



Avicultural Magazine



PAGE PAGE



My Tropical Aviary (with plate ),

by G. H. Gurney . . . 205


Capercaillie in Upper Tweeddale,

by F. R. S. Balfour . . 207


Of Fable and Fact, by The Hon.

Anthony Chaplin . . 209


Bourke’s Parrakeet, by Gerald

Martindale . . . .210


Some Reminiscences of a Collector,

by Walter Goodfellow . 213


Eared Pheasants, by Hans

Stefani (with plates ) . . 220


W. Shaw Mayer’s Collection . 225



Correspondence—Breeding Notes

from M. Decoux; A New Plover;

Queen Alexandra Parrakeets ;

Curious Behaviour of Barbary

Partridge; Successful breeding

of Australian Parrakeets; Elec¬

tric Heating; The Kea Parrot;


Gapes; Torpidity in the Troch-

ilidse; Humming Bird at

Liberty; Shamas Catching Fish;


Some Notes on the present

Breeding Season; Success with

Fire Finches and Cordon Bleus ;


An Unprecedented Tragedy;


The Call of the Maleo; Rearing

of a Young Derbyan Parrakeet 226



The Price of this Number is 2/6.



