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the female was noticed feeding the young, and this only when meal¬

worms were thrown to them. The young one is exactly like the female

and the only way it can be distinguished is by a ring that was placed

on its leg while in the nest. The other egg mysteriously disappeared

from the nest. I am told this bird has never been reared successfully

before this.



RARE BIRDS FROM PERU


By Dr. E. Hopkinson, C.M.G., D.S.O.


Our member, Alastair Morrison, came down from Cambridge last

summer and forthwith departed for Peru to collect and study the wild

life there. He has recently returned with his collections and is now

working on them. Of these and his experiences generally we may,

I hope, shortly have a full account from his pen. In the meantime I

give a list of the rarer birds he brought home alive with notes as to

previous importation, etc., as far as the records I have go.


Andean Teal, Anas fiavirostris oxyptera Meyen. Delacour in

Avicultural Magazine, 1933, 21, tells us that he saw this duck in

the Berlin Zoo in 1932, and I think this is the only previous importation.

The typical species, A. f. fiavirostris V., has been in the London Zoo,

according to the list of animals kept (Low, 1929).


Puna Teal, A. versicolor puna Tschudi. Versicolor used to be fairly

commonly imported, but then disappeared till about 1935 ; this is a

first arrival of A. v. puna.


Crested Duck, A. specularioides alticola Meneg. Another first

arrival, though the typical race (from Chile southwards to the Falklands)

has once been in the London Zoo, and once at Berlin.


Andean Goose, Chlo'ephaga melanoptera (Eyton.) Bare, but has

been at the Zoo and elsewhere, and has been bred in captivity.


Andean Buddy Duck, Oxyura ferruginea (Eyton). One of the Still-

tailed Ducks : never imported before.


Bidgway’s Ibis, Plegadis ridgwayi (Allen).


Andean Gull, Larus serranus Tschudi. Both these also new.


Besplendent Lapwing, Ptiloscelys replendens Tschudi. Another



