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Dr. E. Hopkinson—Breeding Records



Tavistock, 1934 ? Have they been bred since ? Hybrid records are :

Yellow-bellied X Adelaide, and Y.-b. X ROSELLA and further

crosses.


400. YELLOW-RUMPED PARRAKEET, P. flaveolus. First

success, U.K., 1904. The cross with the hen Rosella (a), is also on

record. U.K., 1905.


401. MEALY ROSELLA, P. adscitus palliceps. And hybrids

with female Rosella and Barnard’s parrakeets.


402. ROSELLA, P. eximius. Often bred ; also hybrids : a. Rosella

X Mealy Rosella ; b. X Stanley Parrakeet; c. X Yellow-naped ;

d. (X Redrump).


403. STANLEY PARRAKEET, P. icterotis. Hybrids :


Stanley X Rosella. Germany, 1935, and a further cross.


Stanley X Pileated Parrakeet. California, 1929.


BROWN’S PARRAKEET, P. venustus, 1928 (and ? an

earlier record), 1935, 1938 ; all U.K.


404. PILEATED PARRAKEET, Purpureicephalus spurius. First

success, U.K., 1909 ; since then elsewhere.


405. BARNARD’S PARRAKEET, Barnardius barnardi ; and

hybrids with hens of a. the Yellow-naped and Redrump Parrakeets.


406. Yellow-naped parrakeet, B. zonarius semitorquatus. Bred

at the Zoo in 1912. Crosses with hens of the following are also on

record, a. Barnard’s, b. Bauer’s, c. Yellow-bellied Parrakeet.


407. Bauer’s parrakeet, “ Port Lincoln,” B. zonarius. Bred

in Germany and France, but I have no record yet for the U.K. ; hybrids

with the hen Mealy rosella (a) were bred here in 1924.


408. BLUEBONNET. Both races, Northiella h. hsematogaster,

the yellow-vented, and N. hsematogaster hsematorhous, the red-vented,

have been bred. Whitley bred hybrids , Bluebonnet X Redrump,

in 1931.


409. Beautiful Parrakeet, Psephotellus pulcherrimus. Bred in

Austria, 1880 ; hybrids with the hen Redrump (a) are also on record

(Belgium).


410. (Golden-shouldered Parrakeet, Ps. chrysopterygius.) Only

a hybrid record (1901), with the female Many-coloured Parrakeet (a).



