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colour of the feathers was smoky black, not the full black of a true 

 black pigeon, but a very deep smoky brown. The contour feathers 

 were darker than the quill-feathers ; the primaries were distinctly 

 tinged with red, and in the young the contour feathers had reddish 

 tips, but these, as is usual in young pigeons, disappeared at maturity. 

 The red in the wing quill-feathers remained. The tail was long, most 

 of the feathers dark grey with a black band at the tip, and the outer 

 webs of the outer feathers whitish. In all the birds there were white 

 feathers, but the distribution of these varied somewhat. The rump 

 was generally grey, mottled with white, the upper and lower tail 

 coverts were partly or wholly white, and there were always some 

 white feathers in either tail or wings, and generally in both. The 

 distribution of the white feathers was not necessarily symmetrical on 

 the two sides of the bod)', and sometimes there were scattered white 

 contour feathers on the breast and under parts. The legs were dark 

 red, some of the claws generally dark, and the bill dark brown. The 

 tail feathers varied from 13 to 16 in number. 



White Fantail 



Red Tumbler 



10 Fi all dark with more or less white 

 of which 



? White I I I 



Fan tail x Fj j Fi <? x F] ? 



I 



I 



III I I I I 



1 dark 1 red 2 white 10 dark 4 dark 1 red 8 white 



(like F]) with some no white of which 



white , 



red ? X cT Fa white 

 (rose-wing) | 

 r ' 



2 dark 1 white 



like <J 3 (14 tail feathers) 



3 dark 



I 

 7 red 



Fig. 2. (Series B.) 



Two pairings were made between these F^ young. From the first, 

 only four young were produced, all of which died before they were fully 

 fledged. Two were quite white, one red with one tail feather nearly 

 white and the primaries speckled with white, and the fourth clo.sely 

 like the parents (dark smoky, with red in the webs and some white 

 feathers). From the second pairing between F^ young 23 young were 



