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first arrival in Europe, but has, I think, been imported for American

collections.


Whiteley’s Ground-tyrant, Agriornis s. insolens Scl. The typical

race, A. s. solitaria, Scl. has been in the London Zoo (one specimen in

1932), but this is the first arrival of insolens.


Sharpe’s Yellow-rumped Ground-finch, Pseudochloris u. sharpei

Berl. and Stolzmann. New. Common in the Puna, teste Morrison.


All the above came from the Andes, 14,000 feet up, in the Lake

Junin district, where the collector made his headquarters. The next

three were collected on or near the coast.


Peruvian Brown Grosbeak, Neorhynchus d. masesus (Bp.).

Capt. Hammond had a Sporophila-like bird for a year or more, about

1930, which had been identified at the Nat. Hist. Museum as

“ Neorhynchus ? species I saw it ; it was rather different from the

birds brought by Morrison, who has kindly given me a true pair.

Another was mentioned in our pages (1931, 227, 289) as having been

seen in a German collection, and this bird was, I believe,

Capt. Hammond’s. Except for this, this consignment is quite new.


Streaked Saltator, Saltator striatipectus Lafr. There v/ere two in

the Zoo in 1908, “ new,” and the only previous arrival.


Bonaparte’s Warbling Finch, Poospiza bonapartei Scl. Also new.

A few other species of this genus have arrived within the last year or

two, and one, P. whitei, was bred by Allen Silver in 1937 :

see Avicultcjral Magazine, 1938, 98.



BREEDING OF THE NEW GUINEA RED-SIDED

PARROT (ECLECTUS PECTORALIS P. L. S. Muller)

IN CAPTIVITY IN COLOMBO, CEYLON


By W. C. Osman Hill, M.D.


I have kept Eclecti 1 of various species for the past six years and have

found them very delicate when first imported but hardy when fully

acclimatized. Individual male birds occasionally make good, tame, and


1 I am aware that this generic title is not valid according to the strict rules of

zoological nomenclature, but the name Lorius, Boddaert, 1783, is provokingly

inappropriate and I cannot bring myself to use it.



