. Bird notes . etimes morel white eggs. It is to be hoped that at the end of this dreadful warthis spei i<s will be more frequently imported, for it is a mosfinte:esting and beautiful bird, in spite of the somewhatstartling contrasts of the colour arrangement of its plumage. {To l)c contimicd). Some Doves I Have Kept. Bv \\.M. .Snoki {Concluded from page 50). ^ TURTLK IJOVE {furtur senutorqua-fus). An uninteresting species, closely allied to the commonBarbary Do\f. I have liad three or four of these birds andthey nested frequently, the eggs always proving infertile.
. Bird notes . etimes morel white eggs. It is to be hoped that at the end of this dreadful warthis spei i<s will be more frequently imported, for it is a mosfinte:esting and beautiful bird, in spite of the somewhatstartling contrasts of the colour arrangement of its plumage. {To l)c contimicd). Some Doves I Have Kept. Bv \\.M. .Snoki {Concluded from page 50). ^ TURTLK IJOVE {furtur senutorqua-fus). An uninteresting species, closely allied to the commonBarbary Do\f. I have liad three or four of these birds andthey nested frequently, the eggs always proving infertile. Ifancy that they were all hens, as I ha\e ne\cr seen themdisplaying to each other. They did not live very long uitlime. ) Dovi {Ocyphaps lopliotes). This very hand-some. Australian pigeon iias nested se\eral times with me, butwiithoui success. They look \ery nice in a large aviary andtheir display is amusing, but as I found them rather quarrel-some auL. tiieir rapid and somewhat hawk-like flight seemed. p 03 Some Doves / Have Kepi. ^^^ to disturb tlio small birtls in tho ;iviar\ . 1 disposed of themafter one season. I believe that these birds have bred freelyin this country in a wild state Violet Do\k {Lcptoptila jamaicensis). Another verystriking looking pigeon, not very fre(|uently im]>orted. HabitatWest Indies. 1 found them ver)- fi?e brt-eders, but theyhad the bad habit, eonuuon to some pigeons of leaving theiryount2 brfore tl^ey could properly cater for themselves. Thefew young onr-;, f fully rrared kept in their nest until theywere string on the wing. Those that I^ft the nest, beforethey could properly fly all died, atttiupts to hand rear themproving unsucecs ful. 1 think that this bird in a wild stateconsumes a good deal of lixc food. My birds were \-ery fondof garden worms, and would also lake mealwoiins spent much of thcii- time upon tiie ground and werevery active. \\ HiTF-CK(>v,\i i ^N ( I encore pliahi).Another fine biril
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