308 R. R. Minchin—The South Australian Zoological Society


Grenadier Weavers. —Five young hatched and four reared.


Western Blue Bird. —Five young hatched and all reared.


Orange-headed Ground Thrush. —One young hatched and reared.


Yellow-billed Magpie. —-Five young hatched, but only two reared.


Royal X Superb Starling. —One young hatched and reared.


Abyssinian Cliff Chat. —Two young hatched, but only one reared.


Blacksmith Plover. —-One young one hatched and reared.


Pekin Robins. —Two young hatched but both died at ten and

twelve days respectively.


Fytches Bamboo Partridge.— Only one hatched, which lived

only nine days.


White-eared Bulbul. —Two hatched. One died two days after

leaving nest. The other one was drowned.


Other birds that had eggs but did not hatch were the following :

Black-cheeked Cardinals, Taha Weavers, Kookaburras, Scarlet-back

Tanagers, Yellow-rumped Serins, Kingfishers, Black-tailed Cossyphas,

Rufous and White Rails, Water Thick-knees, Royal Starlings, Superb

Starlings, Japanese Blackbirds, Fair Pigeons, Wonga-wonga Pigeons,

and Mountain Witch Doves.


In my large animal enclosure a good many Mandarins and Carolines

(full-winged), one Bar-headed Goose, two Sarus Cranes, five White

Peafowl, seven Black-shouldered Peafowl, six Crested Guinea Fowl,

one Madagascar White-back Duck, were successfully reared.



THE SOUTH AUSTRALIAN ZOOLOGICAL

AND ACCLIMATIZATION SOCIETY


By R. R. Minchin


During the year ended 30th June, 1937, 152 birds of thirty-eight

different species were bred in the Gardens. The kinds dealt with here,

are only those that are deemed of sufficient interest to record and such

birds as Budgerigars, African Lovebirds, and some of the Finches, etc.,

are omitted.


Torres Strait Fruit Pigeon ( Myristicivora spilorrhoa). — A pair

living with a pair of Satin Bower-birds attempted to build in a shrub,



