198 Mr. John Sergeant,


It will be noticed that all the hybrids that bred were males,

though the only female tried (the Necklaced x Senegal) laid

freely : also I believe the female Turtle x Barbary has produced

eggs.


With regard to the utility of Columbian hybrids, it would

seem doubtful whether the hybrids, recently bred by Mr.

P. St. M. Pod more,* originally between a cock domestic Pigeon

and a hen Wood-pigeon ( Columba palmnbus), and subsequently

from a hybrid cock (Domestic Pigeon x Wood-pigeon) mated to

a domestic hen Pigeon will eventually prove of more practical

value than the above Turtle dove hybrids. It is interesting to

note that almost precisely similar results should have been

obtained in two distinct families of the same order almost at the


same time. -


EXPLANATION OF PLATES.


Plate I. fig. i. i Common Turtle x f Barbary hybrid <J.


n »> 2. g- v >> X -g- ,, j> ?•


(Bred from fig. i).


,, ,, 3. Necklaced x Senegal hybrid ?.


Plate II. fig. 4. Necklaced x Barbary hybrid


„ „ 5- i „ x „ hybrids, juv.


(Bred from fig. 4).


,, ,, 6. Necklaced x Barbary hybrid.


(Same as fig. 4 but in nest plumage).



NOTES ON PARRAKEETS.


By John Sergeant.


Referring to the Hon. Canon Dutton’s remarks in the

February issue in his letter on the above subject, anent the

susceptibility of the King Parrakeet to cold. My experience

bears out Mr. Dutton’s in regard to the hardiness of this lovely

bird.


I had a pair, King and Queen, for nearly three years in an

outdoor aviary, which was occupied by various species of the

beautiful Broad-tail family. On frosty mornings when I had



* cf. Zoologist, 1903, p. 401.



