NOTES ON A VISIT TO PAKISTAN by Philip Schofield Philip's account of his visit to Pakistan June-August 1978, as a volunteer worker with the World Pheasant Association project to reintroduce the Cheer Pheasant ( Catreus wallichii ) onto the Margalla Hills. There is also a list of the 110 bird species he saw during his stay in Pakistan.
CAPTIVE BREEDING OF THE WHITE-BELLIED BUSTARD ( Eupodotis senegalensis ) AT JACKSONVILLE ZOOLOGICAL GARDEN by Alison S. Cox August 1999-October 2002, 11 chicks were hatched. The mortality rate in the first 160 days was 45%. Inadequate parental care contributed to three of the five deaths, nutritional bone disease was suspected in the other two cases. The author describes how they dealt with parental neglect stemming from chick favouritism and dietary factors related to calcium metabolism which were identified as risk factors in the successful propagation of this species. A graph plots the growth rates of six parent-reared chicks. Photos illustrate a chick with a 'dropped wing' and a treatment for 'angel wing'.
THE CAPTURE OF EIGHT MONTSERRAT ORIOLES AND THEIR SUBSEQUENT ESTABLISHMENT AND BREEDING AT JERSEY ZOO by Andrew Owen An account of a visit to the island of Montserrat in the Caribbean, where the Montserrat Oriole ( Icterus oberi ) had become endangered after much of its forest habitat was destroyed by volcanic activity. Andrew describes how he captured the birds, established them in aviaries there and subsequently brought them back to Jersey Zoo, where six young were reared in 2000, eight in 2001, 10 in 2002 and seven in 2003.
A HISTORY OF THE GENUS Picathartes IN CAPTIVITY, 1948-2002 by Marvin L. Jones Lists the Grey-necked Picathartes ( Picathartes oreas ) kept in captivity from 1948, when the first arrived at London Zoo, and includes several hatched at Frankfurt Zoo. Also listed are the earliest White-necked Picathartes ( P. gymnocephalus ) kept in captivity, starting with the one which arrived at London Zoo in 1954 (the list is continued in the following issues). Roland Green's 1948 painting of P. oreas is reproduced.
THE AVICULTURAL MAGAZINE AND ME: A SYMBIOSIS by Derek Goodwin Derek describes how in 1945 he returned to England, as a soldier of 25, from service in Egypt, Libya and Malta and was granted four weeks leave. On a visit to the Zoological Department of a London store, he saw on sale some old copies of the Avicultual Magazine, including one for January 1929 with an article on the Common Bronzewing ( Phaps chalcoptera ), illustrated with a beautiful painting of this Australian pigeon. As a result of this he joined the society and, in 1946, after being demobbed, got a job in the Bird Room of the British Museum (Natural History) - events which changed his life.
THE SOCIETY'S VISIT TO BLACKBROOK ZOOLOGICAL PARK (APRIL 15th 2003) by Philip Schofield This collection had some 300 bird species, of which 130 were waterfowl, including many sea ducks, some of which can be difficult to keep in conventional collections, but do well high on the Staffordshire moors. Members and their guests also saw the only UK-bred Marabou, hatched there in 1999, other storks, pheasants, junglefowl, ibis, owls, fruit doves, bleeding hearts and crowned pigeons, etc.
BOOK REVIEWS. Photographic Guides to the Birds of India, South-East Asia and Indonesia, Swan Keeper's Handbook and Growing and Collecting Wild and Cultivated Greenfood and Seeds.
CD REVIEW. Bird Song of The Gambia & Senegal - an aid to identification (3-CD set).
NEWS & VIEWS. Included are items on the breeding of the Bearded Barbet ( Lybius dubius ) in the UK and USA, Tawny Frogmouth ( Podargus strigoides ) at Paultons Park, Toco Toucan ( Ramphastos toco ) at Leeds Castle aviaries and London Zoo, and the Green Aracari (Pteroglossus virdis), also in the UK. Reference is also made to the successful hand-rearing of Greater Bird of Paradise (Paradisaea apoda) and King Bird of Paradise (Cicinnurus regius) chicks, and the first ever captive breeding of the Flame Bowerbird (Sericulus aureus ardens), at Al Wabra Wildlife Preservation, Qatar.
Vol. 109, No.3, ends with a report on a workshop on Ecosystem Health held at Lake Bogoria, Kenya.
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