FOREIGN BIRDS FOR CAGE AND AVIARY. 



pure white, smooth, and rounded oval in shape; they 

 measure 1.20 by .95." 



AIv friend, Mr. Frank Finn, gave me a pair of these 

 Doves in the spring of 1893. and I turned them out into 

 an aviary with two English Starlings and a Mocking 

 Bud. r tiled up a hamper lid near the roof in one 

 corner, and they scon commenced to lay, and continued 

 to do so from time to time until I parted from them. 

 Unfortunately, con-stant interruptions, due to the play- 

 fulness of mv Mocking Bird and the terrified i-ushes of 

 the Starlings' to es-cape him. kept the unfortunate Doves 

 from sitting in peace ; so that all the eggs got either 

 broken or addled. Eventually. I exchanged them for 

 other birds in 1895. In 1899 Major Horsbrugh brought 

 home a batch from West Africa, and I became possessed, 

 through his kindness, of a second "pair"; the.=e I 

 turned into an outdoor aviary, and a year or two later 

 into a fowl-run adjoining (later thrown into the said 

 aviary). Here one of them died on the 12th November, 

 1P02 " and was identified by the British Museum 

 authorities as Tnvhn- ihripims ; the other escaped, 

 together with two examples of (reopdia hiime)-ali.<. my 

 servant having entered the run to feed the fowls and 

 left the door open behind her. 



The London Zoological Gardens first exhibited three 

 specimens of this species in 1870, since which date 

 many specimens have been added to the Regent's Park 

 collection. 



Mr. T. H. Newman has published a long and interest- 

 ing article on this Dove in The Aviailliiml Magazine, 

 Second Series, Vol. V., pp. 318-324. 



Dkceptive Ttjbtle-Dovk (Turtiir deripkiis). 

 Above pale earth-brown, slightly tinged witl; 

 vinaceous on the front of the mantle, darker from the 

 centre of back posteriorly ; bastard-wing brownish- 

 black, partly .«late-grey on outer webs : flights brownish- 

 black, darkest on outer wehs ; outer wing-coverts, 

 excepting the primary-coverts, which are brownish- 

 black, pearl-grey, more or less tinged with brown and 

 with paler edges; lateral tail-feathers slaty -blackish on 

 basal half, pale brown shaded with grey and becoming 

 graduallv paler from within outwards, the outermost 

 feathers" being broadly grey whiti-'^h at tips; front of 

 head ashy, bluer at centre of crown, then shaded with 

 vinous at the back of all the feathers and becoming 

 quite vinous on the back and sides of neck and the 

 breast ; sides of head grey washed with vinous ; no 

 black feathers in front of "the eyes; chin and centre 

 of throat white ; a black half-collar, partly edged with 

 grey-whitish in front, at back of neck ; sides of rump 

 and" of abdomen leaden-grey, the latter faintly tinged 

 with brownish ; centre of abdomen whitish ; under tail- 

 coverts pearl-grey with whiter borders ; under wing- 

 coverts leaden-grey ; basal half of tail below black ; 

 terminal half pale pearl-gi-ey, becoming gradually 

 lighter towards the tips : biU apparently slaty-blackish ; 

 feet red; irides probably brown; orbital ring orange.* 

 Female probably a trifle smaller and with whiter fore- 

 head. Hab., "Dongola." (Salvadori.) 



Possibly Count Salvadori might regard this as 

 T. amhiijnns : but he himself .^ays of the latter : " It is 

 quite possible that a good series of specimens will show 

 that T. amh'K/uus, Boc, is not different from true 

 T. drrijiiens, the former being only somewhat smaller 

 and more gi'ey on the sides of the Jiead or che-eks ; but 

 I find that in two specimens from Sobat [Emin PcisJia) 

 .... the amount of grey on the cheeks is rather 



• Described from a male example identified as this species at 

 the British Museum: it differs very slirttly from SaWadon's 

 description, which was based upon a single example. 



variable, and although the difference in size seems con- 

 stant, I do not think it is sufhcient to indicate specific 

 difference." Hab., "Zambesi, Benguela, .and Sobat 

 River, at about 9 deg. N. lat." (Salvadori.) 



Heuglin says (" Ornithologie Nord-Ost Africas," Vol. 

 I., p. 853) : "• It lives, as a resident bird, in pairs and 

 in small and larger flocks ; preferablj- on thorny acacias 

 and A'a6(«/-trees. Its note is just as loud, and like a 

 mocking laugh, as that of Tuflur scmitorqualus. At 

 the wells of the Bainda Desert in October we came 

 across vast flocks of this laughing Dove. It is not timid, 

 and is fond of visiting the encampments of the caravans, 

 where it searches for food in the manure. Its food 

 consists besides in seeds of gi'asses. maize in the ear, 

 berries and fruits of Zizi/phus, Moringa, and the like." 



As previously stated, an example given to me by 

 ilajor Horsbrugh was identified as T . duiphns by the 

 authorities at the Natural History Museum ; so also 

 was a specimen recetived by iliss Aldei'son (cf. The 

 Ai-icuUural Magazine, Second Series. Vol. I., p. 237). 

 In May, 1906, Mr. Meade-Waldo presented six examples 

 to the London Zoological Gardens, and doubtless others 

 have, from time to time, been confounded with T. 

 srniitorqualus. I believe Mr. T. H. Newman has also 

 had this Dove. 



DocBLE-EiNGED TuRTLE-DovE (Turlur hitorquatuf). 



Above mostly earth-brown ; outer wing-coverts leaden 

 grey ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and flights 

 brownish-black ; lateral tail-feathers bluish-grey, darker 

 towards the base, the outer feathers with the entira 

 outer web bluisJi-grey ; crown grey, paler in front ; chin 

 whitish ; sides of head, neck, and breast rich vinous, 

 fading to white on lower abdomen, vent, and under 

 tail-coverts ; a broad black collar, edged in f I'ont with 

 white, on hind neck ; xinder wing-coverts and flanks 

 leaden-gi'ey ; tail below black on basal and whitish- 

 grey on terminal half ; bill black, red at base of gape ; 

 feet coral-red : iris orange-yellow ; orbital ring red. 

 Female nrobably with the forehead ])alcr than in the 

 male. Hab., " Java, Lombock, Siunbawa, Flores, 

 Solor. and Timor." (Salvadori.) 



Mr. Fraidc Fin.i (The Ibis. 1901. p. 443) speaks of 

 so gi-eat a number of this sjiecies being imported into 

 Calcutta as cage-birds that they were quite a drug in 

 the market. 



I have not come across any notes respecting the 

 wild life of this bird, nor does Russ quote any in his 

 work. He says : " It is only rarely imported alive ; in 

 the year 1839 it arrived in the Amstei-dam, and in the 

 year 1863 in the London, Zoological Gardens. In 

 Germany, the chemist Landauer has possessed it, and 

 in the year 1883 Bode, of Leipzig, imported it ; since 

 then it has always come to hand here and there 

 singly." The last example recorded in the ninth 

 edition of the "List of Animals" as having found its 

 way to the Regent's Park (Jardens was presented in 

 November. 1894. 



Cape Turtlk-Dove {Tiirtur rapirola). 

 Upper surface mostly greyish-brown, changing to 

 leaden-grey on outer upper wing-coverts and sides of 

 lower back and rump ; primary-coverts and flights 

 blackish, with pale narrow edges; central tail-feathers 

 browner, the lateral feathers black on basal half, grey 

 on terminal half of inner feathers and white on outer 

 ones; crown leaden-grey, paler on the forehead, 

 changing to vinous-grey on sides of head, neck and 

 chest ; front of cheeks and throat grey ; a more or less 

 defined black loral line ; a broad black collar, partially 

 edged in front and behind with grey, on the hind n«ck ; 



