CERTAIN CROSSINGS OF JAPANESE DOVES. 



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Table 5. 



Pair S. 

 cf Common pigeon (R 1) (gray w. dark bars); 8/12/99-7/15/02; 25 mo. (admista?). 

 9 T. orientalis (2); imported 5/24/97; 11/7/12; 15 + yrs. 



Fl. 



3/29/00; no development. 

 3/31/00; hatched; died at 

 4/8; no development. 

 5/27; no development. 



5/29 



6/15; no development. 



6/17 



7/10; no development. 

 7/12; no development. 





C 1. 4/19; failed to hatch. 

 C2. 4/21; thin shell, broke 



2/00. 



.5/20/02 23 : 



J 1. 5/20/01; no development. 

 J 2. 5/22/01 ; no development. 



K 1. 6/15; no development. 

 K 2. 6/17; no development. 



no development, 

 no develojjmeut. 



no development.' L 1. 7/6; 8 to 10 day embryo. ^ 



hatched; "died young." cf L 2. 7/8; hatched; escaped 2/28/02. 



' Old birds separated from Sept. 1900 till May 15, 1901. 



- In 1902 female T. orientalis (2) refused to mate with male T. orientalis (2). 



T.\BLE 



d" C. affinis dom. X orient. (A 1); 8/19/97; accident 4/30/02; 50+ mo. 

 9 Common pigeon (black). 

 The father of the bird here used as sire was partly white fantail. 



The sire of this female is also the sire of her mate (A 1); i.e., these two birds probably half brothf 

 female had laid 8 other eggs during the season before the following: 



9C 1. 8/6/99; hatched; white. 



C 2. 8/8/99; no development. 



D 1. 8/23; opened prematurely; live embr.vo. 



D 2. 8/25; no development. 



E 1. 9/7; developed about 7 days. 

 c^E 2. 9/9; like C. livia: i "fell dead suddenly" 4/14/01. 



F 1. 10/23; no development. 



F 2. 10/25; no development. 



G 1. 11/10; some development. 

 G 2. 11/12; no development Oi 

 ment. 



HI. 12/25; dead 1/18/00; "c 



cared for." 

 H 2. 12/27; no development. 



develop- 

 sex; well 



'29/00; hatched; black. 

 '31/00; chequered; trace red. 



me development. 

 ) development. 



R 1. 8/16; no development. 

 <fR2. 8/18; hatched, white; accident, 5/24/01, "a fine 

 bird and probably fertile." 



S 1. 9/30; hatched; dead at 9 days (exposure?) 

 S2. 10/1; hatched; black, dead 12/20/00. 



Copulation prevented 2 to 4 days before 

 laying T 1 and T 2. 



T 1. 9/30 1 

 T2. 10/2; 



I development. 

 3 development. 





K 1. 3/30; dead 17 day embryo. 

 K 2. 4/1; no development. 

 L 1. 4/12; some development. 

 L 2. 4/14; no development. 

 M 1. 4/30; dead 17 day embryo. 

 M 2. 5/2; helped from shell; complexion 



2 days. 

 N 1. 6/1; no development. 

 N 2. 6/3; some development. 

 cfO 1. 6/18; hatched; dead 7/21/00.= 

 £^0 2. 6/20; hatched; dead 9/1/00 (canker): "testicle very 



small." 

 9P 1. 7/20; hatched; "color of sire;" dead U/S/00; green 

 discharge. 

 P 2. 7/22; no development. 

 Q 1. 8/3; hatched; dead at 6 days. 

 Q 2. 8/5; 7 to 10 day embryo. 



' "Color of this bird, when adult, is a chequered ground gray, with spots black, closely like C. livia but plainly shading 

 towards the condition of spots in the male grandparent. Cooing like that of common pigeon, but not so loud. Delivery 



and quality of voice were quite like the common pigeon Too, the bird showed in its attitudes and behavior some 



slight and hard-to-describe differences. The testes were enormous in size, 6/8 inches long by 5/16 inch in shortest diameter." 



* "O 1 died July 21, age two weeks; short and somewhat irregular breathing noticed 2 or 3 days before death; bird was 



large and apparently healthy; do not know what the trouble was; perhaps some organic weakness of its hybrid constitution." 



10/23; hatched; dead at 27 days (overfeeding?). 

 10/25; hatched; color leaden gray, like C. a-iias. 



11/27; no development. 



11/29; "developed fully; why it did not hatch I 

 am unable to say. I opened it two days 

 after it was due and found the bird dead 

 but fully ready to hatch, the yolk having 

 been almost wholly taken up. The sire 

 now given to a chequered rock-dove that 

 has not been mated for two years (since 

 she came from England)." (F 26) 



This mating is given in the next part of 

 this table. 



