THE INDIAN GREEN-WINGED PIGEON. 291 



The sexes are much alike in colour but the female 

 is decidedly smaller than her mate. 



I bought my first pair, as usual, from the late Mr 

 Anton Jamrach, and very nice birds they were, as were 

 almost all I ever obtained from the same source. I 

 was very proud of my beautiful pair of Pigeons and 



THE INDIAN GREEN-WINGED PIGEON. 



put them into the aviary, where they immediately made 

 themselves at home, strutting about and looking as if 

 they thought that the whole place belonged to them. 

 As the cock at once began to drive the hen about, 

 bowing and strutting and inflating his crop as he walked 

 along rapidly behind her through the grass, I thought 



