PLATE 3 



A. Adult male owl-homer hybrid No. 2 (to the lefti. Adult female Turtur turtur x T. 



orientalis hybrid No. 8 (to the right). X0.3. 



B. Hybrid male (C 2) from owl-homer hybrid X T. turlur X T. orientalis hybrid. Hatched 



May 3, 1908; photographed at 6 months. X 0.4. Color gray-reddish <B 

 secondaries and long coverts. The medium coverts have marks of a bar. This 

 is one of the larger hybrids. 



C. Hybrid female (E 1) from owl x homer hybrid X T. turtur x T orientalis hybrid. May 



28,1908. Photographed at 5 ^months. X0.35. Color light-gray; central marks 

 of feathers weak. Chequering present, but weak, on the long coverts. 



