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Show 1869.] BIRDS IN THE SOCIETY'S GARDENS. 627 Society's Gardens during the previous twenty years*. To this I now beg leave to add a list of the birds that have produced living young in the Society's Gardens during the same period, drawn up in a corresponding manner. The first Table contains the names of the species of this class that have bred in the Gardens from the 1st of January 1848 to the 31st of December 1868, arranged according to the last edition of the List of Vertebrates, and the number of instances in which each species has produced living young during this period. The second Table gives the total number of species that have bred in each order of Birds, and the corresponding number of species of the same order enumerated in the List of Vertebrates. A comparison of these two columns will give some approximate idea of the comparative frequency of breeding in captivity in the different orders of this class of animals. TABLE I. No. of instances of breeding in each species during the years 1848-68. I. PASSERES. 1. Song-thrush 2. Blackbird 3. Pied Wagtail 4. Spot-sided Finch 5. Rufous-necked Weaverbird 6. Black-crested Cardinal 7. Cardinal Grosbeak Turdus musicus merula Motacilla yarrelli Amadina lathami Hyphantornis textor Gubernatrix cristatella Cardinalis virginiana . III. PKEHENSORES. Undulated Grass-parrakeet Turquoisine Parrakeet Elegant Parrakeet Crested Ground-parrakeet 5. Blood-rumped Parrakeet... Melopsittacus undulatus Euphema pulchella elegans Calopsitta novee-hollandice Psephotus hcematonotus .. IV. ACCIPITUES. 1. Black Kite ' Milvus niger ... 2. Great Eagle-owl | Bubo maximus V. COLUMBAE. 1. Naked-eyed Pigeon 2. White-crowned Pigeon 3. Triangular-spotted Pigeon 4. Cambayan Turtledove 5. Vinaceous Turtledove Barbary Turtledove Dwarf Turtledove Zenaida Dove Barred Dove Columba gymnophthalma. leucocephala guinea Turtur senegalensis vinaceus risorius humilis Zenaida amabilis ... Geopelia striata ... 1 1 3 1 3 1 1 3 13 5 6 1 3 1 6 4 2 13 28 2 2 17 9, No. of ditto in each order. 11 28 PROC. ZOOL SOC. * See P. Z. S. 1868, p. 623. -1869, No. XLI. |
