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Falkenstein’s Sunbird ( Cinnyris venustus falkensteini (Fischer and Rchw.)).

Hab. : Kenya to Tanganyika. Plate : Shelley, Birds of Afr., ii, 66,

pi. 3, fig. 1. One example only.


Kenya Double-collared Sunbird ( Cinnyris m. mediocris (Shelley)). Hab. :


Highlands of Kenya. Plate : Shell., B. Afr., ii, 79, pi. 3, fig. 1.


Kenya Highlands Scarlet-chested Sunbird (Chalcomitra senegalensis

lamperti (Rchw.)). Hab. : Highlands of Kenya. New as a sub-species

to Aviculture ; the typical race from W. Africa, Ch. s. senegalensis, has

been imported about twice.


Mr. Mayer’s birds from New Guinea (see A.M., 1933, 226).


Yellow-breasted Sunbird ( Cyrtostomus f. frenatus (Muller)). Hab. :


New Guinea. Plate : Shell., Mon., pi. 49. One male.


Duke of York Island Sunbird (Hermotimia sericea corinna (Salvad)).

Hab. : Bismarck Archipelago. Plate: Shelley, Mon., pi. 39. Five

examples arrived.


A good many of these Sunbirds went to the Zoo either directly or later

and can be seen there. On a recent visit I remember seeing all but ceneigularis

and mediocris, and I may have missed these.


E. Hopkinson.



ADDITIONS TO BREEDING RECORDS; SOME CORRECTIONS


In the Additions to Breeding Records which have been appearing in

the Magazine recently, a few errors need correction.


(1) The three paragraphs on pp. 44 and 45, 1933, must be replaced by

the following :—


Records, p. 86, Nos. 370 and 371. The specific name of the Passerine

Parrakeet, (“ Blue-wing Lovebird ”) must be changed to vividus Ridgw.,

and that of the Guiana Parrotlet to passerinus Linn., and for this

a better English name is Green-rumped Parrotlet. Apart from this

change of names, Records 370 and 371 can stand, but to the second

add “ Tavistock ( Parrots , p. 155) says he did breed this species at

liberty and that it has also been bred at Brighton.”


Add. 371, i. Blue-rumped Parrotlet (F. cyanopygius Bp.). Bred by

Mrs. Goddard in 1927. (Medal.) A.M., 1928, 52.


Add. 371, ii. Green-rumped Parrotlet (F. passerinus viridissimus Lafr.).

Bred by Dr. Plath in Chicago in 1924, one young one being reared ; see

Aviculture {U.S.A.), 1932, p. 83, where a coloured plate showing about

six species is given. In the account the author unfortunately uses

“ vivida ” for this species, but from the context alone, one can see he

meant to write “ viridissima ”. Whitley in 1921 also reared a brood of

this Parrotlet, which I saw.


Add. 371, iii. Spectacled Parrotlet (P. conspicillatus Lafr.). A hybrid

record only.


Add. p. 225 of Records :—


Spectacled x Blue-rumped Parrotlet

{conspicillatus x cyanopygius). Bred by Mrs. Tomlinson in California teste

Plath {see Aviculture as above) in 1930; this cross was first reported

in the list given in the January, 1932, number of this American Journal



