KEEPING AND BREEDING THE TROPICAL MOCKINGBIRD Mimus gilvus gracilis
by Gary Bralsford.
REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOUR OF THE SADDLE-BILLED STORK Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis AND DEVELOPMENTAL BEHAVIOUR OF THE CHICKS (with photo of chicks aged 15 days and 18 days)
by J. J. Elston, K. Unger and R. Dunn.
DIARY OF A WEEK SPENT PHOTOGRAPHING BIRDS AT WELTVOGELPARK WALSRODE (with several photographs of rare and unusual birds)
by Pierre de Chabannes.
A NEW PARROTLET FROM COLOMBIA, Forpus flavicollis (with photograph)
by Paolo Bertagnolio and Luigi Racheli.
THE RUFOUS-LEGGED OWL Strix rufipes
by Peter Stock.
BOOK REVIEW: INTERNATIONAL ZOO YEARBOOK Volume 44.
NEWS & VIEWS
Includes: a review of breeding results around UK collections; news from Wuppertal Zoo; another excellent breeding season at Loro Parque; a further six Spix’s Macaws Cyanopsitta spixii and two Lear’s Macaws Anodorhynchus leari raised at AWWP in Qatar; the Orange-bellied Parrot Neophema chrysogaster in more serious decline than previously thought; and efforts to boost the number of Gouldian Finches Erythrura gouldiae in the wild in Australia.