. Foreign birds for cage and aviary . and edged ^Hth whitish; feet crimson pink,bill purplish towards the tip, flesh-pink towards the baseand on the cere; iris dark brown, the eyelashes apparently longer in the tarsus, the foreheadof a less pure white hue, and stained behind with had I known I should never have indulged my purchased a pair on Jlarch 25, 1905, and turned themout into my larger outdoor aviary. There they builttwo nests in a small fir tree, but laid no eggs. Thecock sang from dawn to dark, with hardly any inter-mission, and as the performance consists of a
. Foreign birds for cage and aviary . and edged ^Hth whitish; feet crimson pink,bill purplish towards the tip, flesh-pink towards the baseand on the cere; iris dark brown, the eyelashes apparently longer in the tarsus, the foreheadof a less pure white hue, and stained behind with had I known I should never have indulged my purchased a pair on Jlarch 25, 1905, and turned themout into my larger outdoor aviary. There they builttwo nests in a small fir tree, but laid no eggs. Thecock sang from dawn to dark, with hardly any inter-mission, and as the performance consists of a measuredrepetition of a perfectly monotonous penetrating Jioo-lino-hoo-hoo, sometimes one or two himdred times with-out a pause, it may well be understood how my neigh-bours blessed me. Eventually, in September, I broughtthe pair indoors and turned them into one of my bird-room aviaries, at the back of which, near to the oeUing,was a platform of branches and sticks, about a footwide and feet long. There the hen laid four or five. Nkobak Pigeons. 302 FOREIGN BIRDS FOR CAGE AND AYIAEY. eggs without making any proper nest, and. of course,nearly all of tliem fell through the interstices and weresmasfied. The hen made some attempt to incubate thosenearest the surface, but without result. About Novem-ber 18 she was taken ill and died on the 22nd. Onthe 27th I exchanged the cock bird for two pairs ofCockatieLs. After chasing the hen, the cock bird often flew up to alofty perch and sat pitching forwards and rhythmicallytilting his whole body forwards, evidently as an invita-tion to the hen to approach him. I noted the sametrick later -with other Australian Pigeons. The Wonga-wonga Pigeon fii-st reached the LondonZoological Garden.^ in 1859, and bred there the sameyear. It has bred repeatedly since then; in fact, Isaw a lien sitting the last time I visited the my hen did not lay when out of doors I cannot,imagine, but perhaps it is as well that she did not, mI might
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