THE DIVISIBILITY OK CHAHACTEHS. 



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This l)ird was I lie only one of thr fraternity 

 having a white niinj); it has i: tail-feathers. 

 'I'lic general color is gray; "''' wings are washed 

 with brown, increasing on long coverts ami 

 tertials. The lower web of the feather lias the 

 most In-own, and tin's is the only surest ion of 

 dark chequers, but there is nothing like a dis- 

 tinct chequer. Occiput freckled with while. 

 Iris bright red, with orange next to pupil. The 

 neck-spot is a little stronger than the one shown 

 in plate '.2, fig. 7, but only ''> to I rows show 

 black without lifting feathers. Feathers about 

 the same as those in plate ','>'2. During li)()7 .s 

 this hybrid acquired white tail-feathers. 



icrim 2. Head and neck-mark of an adult male hybrid (K 1) between a white male fantail (Culnnilxi Inticauda, 

 F) and a female blond ring-dove (Streptopelia risoria. 13). Hatched Dec. 1, 1897; age (3 years. X 1.2. Toda 

 del., Jan. 1903. 



Shows neck-feathers of first or Juvenal plumage; 

 first molt was, however, already in progress. The 

 rows of feathers are quite distinct and the distinctness 

 is not overdrawn in the figure; a little less distinct than 

 in the stock-dove (see text-figure 4). 



TEXT-FIGURE 3. Neck-mark of African owl pigeon, ('. titrlxilu, -about 3 months old. Natural si/.e. llayashi del., 1900. 



