THE BARRED OR ZEBRA DOVE. 



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chance against the wind, and rain, and frost, not to 

 speak of the fog of November and the following months 

 to the end of March, which last I feel certain they 

 would never have reached alive? 



The favourite food of the Barred Doves is white 

 millet, so called, but really sorghum, and Canary-seed, 

 but they will also eat hemp, though I do not think it 



ZEBRA OR STRIATED DOVE. 



agrees with them, being too heating, and should not 

 be allowed, except perhaps a little in the winter by 

 way of stimulant. 



Spray millet is good and wholesome by way of change, 

 but my Doves did not appear to care very much for 

 it. I have seen them try to swallow some of the 

 small yellow maize but not very successfully, and I 



