i., 1849-50, p. 2648.

[355] Knox, 'Ornithological Rambles in Sussex,' p. 91.

[356] 'The Zoologist,' vol. vii.-viii., 1849-50, p. 2566; vol. ix.-x.,
1851-2, p. 3207.

[357] Bechstein, 'Naturgesch. der Stubenvoegel,' 1840, s. 20.

[358] 'Ornithological Biography,' vol. v. p. 517.

[359] A case is recorded in 'The Zoologist,' vol. i.-ii., 1843-45, p. 453.
For the siskin breeding, vol. iii.-iv., 1845-46, p. 1075. Bechstein,
'Stubenvoegel,' s. 139, speaks of bullfinches making nests, but rarely
producing young.

[360] Yarrell's 'Hist. British Birds,' 1839, vol. i. p. 412.

[361] Loudon's 'Mag. of Nat. History,' vol. ix., 1836, p. 347.

[362] 'Memoires du Museum d'Hist. Nat.,' tom. x. p. 314: five cases of
parrots breeding in France are here recorded. _See_, also, 'Report Brit.
Assoc. Zoolog.,' 1843.

[363] 'Stubenvoegel,' s. 105, 83.

[364] Dr. Hancock remarks ('Charlesworth's Mag. of Nat. Hist.,' vol. ii.,
1838, p. 492), "it is singular that, amongst the numerous useful birds that
are indigenous to Guiana, none are found to propagate among the Indians;
yet the common fowl is reared in abundance throughout the country."

[365] 'A Week at Port Royal,' 1855, p. 7.

[366] Audubon, 'American Ornithology,' vol. v. pp. 552, 557.

[367] Moubray on Poultry, 7th edit., p. 133.

[368] Temminck, 'Hist. Nat. Gen. des Pigeons,' &c., 1813, tom. iii. pp.
288, 382; 'Annals and Mag. of Nat. Hist.,' vol. xii., 1843, p. 453. Other
species of partridge have occasionally bred; as the red-legged (_P.
rubra_), when kept in a large court in France (_see_ 'Journal de Physique,'
tom. xxv. p. 294), and in the Zoological Gardens in 1856.

[369] Rev. E. S. Dixon, 'The Dovecote,' 1851, pp. 243-252.

[370] Temminck, 'Hist. Nat. Gen. des Pigeons,' &c., tom. ii. pp. 456, 458;
tom. iii. pp. 2, 13, 47.

[371] Bates, 'The Naturalist on the Amazons,' vol. i. p. 193; vol. ii. p.
112.

[372] Temminck, 'Hist. Nat. Gen.,' &c., tom. iii. p. 125. For _Tetrao
urogallus_, _see_ L. Lloyd, 'Field Sports of North of Europe,' vol. i. pp.
287, 314; and 'Bull. de la Soc. d'Acclimat.,' tom. vii., 1860, p. 600. For
_T. Scoticus_, Thompson, 'Nat. Hist. of Ireland,' vol. ii., 1850, p. 49.
For _T. cupido_, 'Boston Journal of Nat. Hist.,' vol. iii. p. 199.

[373] Marcel de Serres, 'Annales des Sci. Nat.,' 2nd series, Zoolog., tom.
xiii. p. 175.

[374] Dr. Hancock, in 'Charlesworth's Mag. of Nat. Hist.' vol. ii., 1838,
p. 491; R. Hill, 'A Week at Port Roya