86 MY FOREIGN DOVES AND PIGEONS. 
ridge dove that it is ‘tin danger of extinction, the 
hens are especially difficult to obtain.” 
I personally have found the cocks harder to get 
than the females. I think the latter seem stronger 
than the male birds. 
Jardine tells us that the Partridge dove lives con- 
stantly on the ground, and roosts on the Jowest 
branch of a tree; he further adds, its nest is built 
on the ground, and that the young ones can sooner 
follow their parents than those ‘‘which nidificate 
at a distance from the ground.’’? ‘‘It inhabits 
elevated and rocky districts, where it runs with 
great swiftness.’’ It must be remembered, how- 
ever, that Jardine wrote so long ago as 1835, and 
old records are not always found to agree with 
modern observations. 
LIFE IN CAPTIVITY. 
It is some years ago since I first kept this gentle 
little dove. If I remember rightly, the first two 
birds I had were never able to fly. I bought them 
as a pair, being ignorant of the difference of 
colouring of the sexes, but both were cock birds. 
The latest pair I had should have done well, for 
they had been used to aviary life in Jamaica before 
they came to me, but I was so unfortunate as to 
Jose the cockbird; the hen I still have, and she 
seems strong and healthy, and keeps in very good 
plumage. 
She is out now for the summer, but musc be 
brought in for the winter months, as this dove 
cannot stand too much cold. 
The Red Mountain dove is so gentle and timid 
a bird that it will allow any dove to torment it, 
and so it is rather difficult to know with what other 
doves to place it, if you are not fortunate enough 
to be able to give a separate compartment to each 
pair of birds. In my case some Senegal doves 
were in fault, and when I caught the Partridge 
doves to remove them I was shocked to find how 
thin the cock was; he began to eat at once on 
being put into a fresh place, and I fear he must 
have suffered without my knowing it. For a time 
this bird looked better, but eventually died. His 
hen is the bird I still have, and she scems quiic 
happy and contented, not caring to come much 
into the open, but passing most of her time in the 
inner shelter. 
This hen has a mania for nests, and used often 
to sit in the turf-lined box where the Partridge 
Bronze-wings were sitting, and these birds being 
most amiable themselves never resented her 
presence. My hen is now interested in the nest 
pans I have put up for my Bleeding Hearts, and 
I am sure if she had a mate she would nest. 
A correspondent in Yorkshire had two hens a 
little time ago, and another gentleman in Stafford- 
shire has two hens and a cock. He tells me that 
one of the hens is so tame that she will feed from 
his hands, although he has only had the birds a 
little time. 
Mr. Sutcliffe was so fortunate as to secure four 
pairs of Partridge doves during his recent tour in 
Jamaica, and as this dove is getting so rare in its 
native land it would be well if it could be saved 
from extinction by being bred in English aviaries, 
but as far as I know this has only twice been 
accomplished—once at the Zoo in 1863 (it was first 
kept there three years previously), and once by Sir 
William Ingram in 1905. 
All the specimens I have kept were imported 
privately, and the last time I wrote for some they 
could not be had. Last May three birds (a cock 
and two hens) were offered for sale in England 
for about 60/-, but it is a dove that is only seldom 
in the market. 
Sir William Ingram has given us some interest- 
ing notes on this pretty little dove. He found it 
the most friendly and amiable of all his doves, and 
even after the hen-bird had to have a toe amputated 
she still remained as tame as before the operation. 
The first nest built by the Partridge doves, 
during their second season in the aviary, was dis- 
turbed by other doves. The nest was made of 
sticks and straw placed on a beam; the second nest 
was built in an old hamper nailed against the wall. 
Here, though much disturbed, the Partridge doves 
reared one young bird; the second egg, though 
fertile, did not hatch; it was a fawnish colour. The 
young bird on leaving the nest ran about like a 
partridge and very seldom used its wings; in colour 
it was a very dark brown on the upper parts, the 
feathers being edged with rufous; the legs were 
light red. 
The parent birds kept much to the ground, 
seldom flying from the floor of the aviary, although 
they built their first nest at the highest elevation 
they could find. This may seem strange, but I 
have known such strictly ground birds as quails 
lay a clutch of eggs in a pigeon nest basket fixed 
some seven feet or more from the ground. 
BLEEDING HEART PIGEON. 
(Phlogoenas lusonica). 
Habitat.—Luzon, Philippines. 
Length.—About 10 inches. Shape, long-legged 
and stoutly built. 
Colouring.—Adult male—Forehead white shad- 
ing into delicate grey; back of crown to eyes dark 
purple; back of neck, upper back and shoulders 
(coming right down the sides of the neck to the 
wings) washed with very rich opal tints. In one 
cock I have the lights chinge from green to bluc; 
