0 Forest Birds. 
ground. When the bird has been sitting some few 
days, the top of the nest assumes a whitish appear- 
ance, caused by a white powder deposited from the 
bird’s plumage. 
Two or three broods are reared in a season, the first 
eges being laid in April, sometimes in March, and a 
Woodpigeon has even been found sitting on two eggs 
in September. The young are hatched in seventeen 
days; they are at first covered with yellowish down, 
and their eyes are covered by a film for the first 
nine days. They are fed from the beaks of the 
parent birds with a whitish secretion, often de- 
scribed as milk, which is supplied from the crops 
of the old birds. This manner of feeding the young 
applies to all the pigeon family. 

WooDPIGEONS AT WESTMINSTER. 
_ From an instantaneous photograph. 
