Abstract
The first fertile egg ever produced by a pair of captive California condors was laid 3 March 1988 at the San Diego Wild Animal Park. It was removed and placed in an incubator, in the hope that the pair would produce another. The egg hatched on 29 April. (Ornithological Newsletter Number 64, June 1988). A field study on the horned currasow being conducted in Amboro National Park, Bolivia will have to be terminated immediately if more funding is not forthcoming. The study is needed if Amboro is to become an internationally important cracid reserve. Those interested in contributing or in general correspondence should write Guy Cox...