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FOURTH SERIES

VOL. XI. No. 9.



SEPTEMBER,


1933.



THE



Avicultural Magazine



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CONTENTS


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The Masked Grassfinch (with

coloured plate), by Edward J.

Boosey .... 337


Some Reminiscences of a Collector,

by Walter Goodfellow . 340


Notes on New Zealand Birds, by

Sydney Porter . . . 346


Breeding Ruppell’s Starling, by

Alfred Ezra. . . . 357


Some Desultory Notes from”lT~'””~~**

Somerset Aviary, by The^Rev.


J. E. Sweetnam . . 358



Successful rearing of the Mada¬

gascar White-backed Duck,

by Alfred Ezra. . . 361


Breeding of the Spurwing Goose

(with plate). . ■ • 362


The Keston Foreign Bird Farm,

by D. Seth-Smith . . . 364


Reviews: The Care and Propagation

of Waterfowl ; Advice on the


Rearing of Pheasants ; The


Aquarium. . . • .367


Correspondence : The Barbary

Partridge. .... 368



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