88 Dr. E. Hopldnson—Macaws Bred in Confinement


going back, laid three eggs and would not sit ; and Brown’s and Yellow-

rumps got no further than looking at their nests. Ringnecks reared

6 good young, including 2 lutinos, and 1 new hen mated to a defective

lutino-bred cock lost her young one in the nest. One pair of Plum-

heads lost their young in the nest and another reared 4 rickety young

which were killed by accident and by vermin. A Slaty-head paired to

a Plumhead reared good young, as did a pair of Layards, Malabars,

and Derbyans. Other completely successful pairs were Swifts, Tahiti

Blue Lories, Rock Peplars, Kings, and Yellow-fronted New Zealands.

Two pairs of Crimsonwings did well, but a third pair had two rickety

young and one good one. Leadbeaters’ Cockatoos reared rickety

young and Roseates, Blue-fronted Amazons, and Racket-tailed Parrots

lost their young in the nest. A young Grey Parrot hatched very late

also died in the nest but was almost certainly killed by cold. Hooded

Parrakeets very late in the year reared, in a heated shelter, one fair

young one and 3 rickety ones. A Barraband paired to a King, reared

3 strong hybrids and one inferior one, not, however, rickety. A pair

of Solitary Lories are incubating at the time of writing.



MACAWS BRED IN CONFINEMENT


By Dr. E. Hopkinson


Recently two inquiries about this and a letter from Mr. Allen

Silver about a hybrid breeding success in Essex, have made me look

up my records.


These will interest the inquirers and, I hope, others.


Blue and Yellow Macaw (Ara ararauna (Linn)).—The earliest

record is to be found in Lauder and Brown’s Parrots published in 1833.

Here we have a good account of real success between 1818 and 1822

at Caen in France. In that period 62 eggs were laid in 19 broods ;

25 hatched and 15 of the young lived to good old age.


In Die gefiederte Welt, 1901, p. 303, there is an account of success



