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Dr. E. Hopkinson—Breeding Records



Dr. E. Hopkinson by letter dated 11th September, 1936, and was duly

confirmed the same month by MM. Meerschaert and Happe, members

of the Council of the Belgian Ornithological Society.


In March, 1937, the same pair of Mitchell’s Lorikeets, having been

wintered in their outdoor aviary (or more exactly in their brick shelter),

nested again, one healthy young being this time reared to maturity.

This bird is also still alive, but a little later I had the misfortune of

losing the female of my breeding pair.


Nesting records in Holland. —A pair of Mitchell’s Lorikeets, owned

by Mr. P. W. Louwman of Wassenaar, started to nest in the beginning

of February, 1937, and I am told, without definite details, that a young

bird was reared. In September, 1937, the pair nested for the second time,

but when one of the youngsters was about three weeks old, he died in

the nesting box, and the other one died a few days later. A pair of

young from the same old pair was born in December, 1937, and reared

this time to maturity, the birds being apparently fully adult by mid-

March, 1938.


I shall only mention pro memoria the first record of the Mitchell’s

Lorikeets nesting in captivity, which took place in 1897 at the Berlin

Zoo, when two eggs were laid but no young reared.


I am trying at the present time to rear in captivity other Lorikeets

of the same group ( Trichoglossus cyanogrammus and Trichoglossus

massense) especially in order to describe their nestling plumage, which

I expect will be of the black headed type. Up to now they have not yet

shown any desire to nest.



BREEDING RECORDS : SUMMARY III


By Dr. E. Hopkinson

{Continued from p. 245)


It will be as well here to repeat the meanings of the different printings

given with the first part, (p. 191). Capitals indicate that the species

(or hybrid) has certainly been bred : large capitals that the record is

self-sufficient, small ones that the actual breeding can be taken as



