All rights reserved. March, 1916. 



BIRD NOTES: 



THE 



JOURNAL OF THE FOREIGN BIRD CLUB. 



The Breeding Season 1915, in Boyers House 



Aviaries. 



''y W. Shore Baily. 

 {Concluded from page 27). 



My Diamond Doves, too, were a failure, a most un- 

 usual experience witli nve. but 1 think that a change of blood 

 was wanted here, as this species so seldom fails— it is one 

 of the most chaiTning of the Dove-tribe. 



Neither Bleeding- Heart nor Cape (Masked) Doves 

 attempted to nest. 



Necklace Doves were quite a success, eight really strong 

 young ones being reared, I'our hybrids were also success- 

 fully reared from a male Necklace mated with a Seneg"al 

 Tuitle Dove. The hybrids are very pretty birds, favouring 

 the Senegal in size and colour, but having a spotted collar 

 like the Necklace; the spots, however, are black and bronze in- 

 stead of black and white as with the latter bird. I exhibited 

 one of them at the recent Holborn Show. 



I'INCHKS: .Among these the Zebra I'inches were the 

 most prolilic, one pair rearing fourteen young (jnes, and 

 strange to say all the nests were open cup-shaped ones {vide 

 plate), being constructed either ui boxes or shrubs; thus 

 niiit(C-riiilly differing from the domed nests constructed in Dr. 

 Lovell-Keays' aviaries (The domied nest is typical of the species 

 -Ed.]. Late in October at least four pairs of these young 

 l>ird^■ were incubating at the same time, and all in open cup- 

 shaped nests. Chi( ks were hat( hed, but the bad weather in 

 November killed them alll. 



The story of my success with Black Seed-fniches has 



