22 Favourite Foreign Birds. 



but which is really more like that of water being 

 poured from a narrow-necked bottle. The male is 

 of a beautiful dark chocolate colour on the back and 

 wings, and snowy white on the neck, breast, and 

 belly. The female is generally like her mate, but is 

 smaller, and her white breast is flecked with grey. 

 Those I had nested in my aviary on the top of a 



FIG. 7. THE TAMBOURINE PIGEON. 



small cage, but did not lay. This and the preceding 

 species are decidedly tender, and must be taken 

 indoors during cold weather, which seems to paralyse 

 them, and soon throws them into a decline. 



THE JAVA DOVE, Turtur risorius, var. alba, is 

 merely a white variety of the common Collared Dove, 

 which so many people will, erroneously, persist in 



