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A. macao, Scarlet Macaw. This was the Macaw bred at liberty at

Lilford (not chlorojptera), teste Delacour. Also a bare record in the

U.S.A. before 1932. Hybrids, macao X militaris. Italy about 1900.


A. chlorojptera, Green-winged Macaw. Hybrids only : A. chlorojptera

X ararauna, New Zealand, 1930-6.


A. militaris. Hybrids only [macao X militaris).


A. maracana, Illiger’s Macaw. Zoo, 1931. Also a much earlier

record in Germany, but a weak one.



ORNAMENTAL PHEASANT SOCIETY NOTES


By Jerome Lambert


I can now officially announce that the O.P.S. summer general

meeting will take place on Thursday, 21st July, at the offices of the

London Zoological Society. Our meeting will be held at 11 a.m. in the

morning and this will be followed by a luncheon in the Zoological

Gardens. Members of the Avicultural Society will now probably

know that an Avicultural Society general meeting will be held on the

same day but in the afternoon. It is hoped that by holding the two

meetings on the same day many members of both Societies will be

convenienced. I am convinced that all members of the O.P.S. who are

members of the Avicultural Society will attend both meetings and

I am hoping that at the O.P.S. meeting I shall have the pleasure of

taking some names of our members who wish to join the Avicultural

Society. There is no nomination required for membership of the

O.P.S. and so I anticipate that some members of the Avicultural

Society may feel inclined to attend our meeting in the morning and

join at the same time. I will mention that the subscription is a modest

6s. per annum and the two half-yearly journals are inclusive of this

sum, surely good value for money if one takes into consideration the

fact that the world’s leading phasianists contribute to the pages and



