268 
The MontJis Arrivals. 
-with ail ordinary Ring Dove, and all the eggs the first season 
were clear. Tlie second summer the pair built in a tree in the 
garden, and one egg in the first nest was fertile and hatched out. 
The young bird shows a few of the markings of the Turtle Dove, 
but has not the hooked beak. 
Have you ever heard of this double hybrid being produced 
before?* (Rev.) John M. Patkkson. 
NESTING OF THE BLACK LORY. 
SiK, — My young Black Lory ((?. ater') is now fully reared 
and quite independent of the old birds. It is a very well grown 
bird and except for the white skin round the eyes and below the 
beak a casual observer would not disliiignish any difference 
between it and the parent birds. 
The young Lory has however some small Ijlood red 
feathers in the neck. These feathers seem to mark the young 
of C ater. 
The period of incubation was about twenty-one days, and 
the bird remained in the nest fully two months. Wiieii it left it 
was fully fledged and able to fly fully about two days after. 
This bird was reared on my usual food, viz. : sop made of 
milk and barley water in which is mixed " B. C." food, with 
occasional biscuit or bread for a change. This is the first true 
Lory ever reared in confinement, and you may think it worth 
while to publish these notes. E. J. Brook. 
ZIbc riDontb's iliTiv>al5. 
Thk Black-Chkkkkd Lovkhird. .'^bont a year ago the siigge«itioii 
was made in this coluiim thai this species would prove as easy and as profitable 
to breed as the Budgerigar. A short time since I spent an afternoon in the 
aviary of a well-known avicultnrist who had bred abont a score of young, 
commencing with three adults only. There has been a fall in the market 
Ijrice of course, the retail price in the German bird-market at present being 
30/- per pair and even less in our own market. Other breeders liave, how- 
ever, not been equally successful. W.E.T. 
* If I leiiieinber rightly Mr. Newman has met with a similar . success with crossed 
birds in his aviaries. It wouUl be of great interest if he would kiudly supply a few 
notes. — Kl>. 
