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hatched from tlii-ee nests, thnu,yh only two became adult, a cock 
and a hen. I afterwards reared younK from this younf,' cock bird, 
and his descendants have hatched youny, I believe every year since. 
The youuf,' hen was mated for some years but never even laid an 
efJK, beiuK one of the few examples of perfect 1)arrenness that I 
have met with anions hybrid doves. 
Ill January 11K)4, I liot two more Turtle X Rarbary hy- 
brids. One developed an over-.urown l)ill ami was never mated. 
The other i)aired, in July, I'JO,'), with a \ Necklace X :| Barbary 
female. They were toj^ether for nearly a year,sixteen ej^^ys were laiil 
but none were fertile. I sei)arated them LSth June, 1 !•()(», and a 
week later the cock mated to a hen Turtle X Barliary with whom 
he has been ever since. Innunieralile ey^s have been laid, lint none 
have ever shown any si^Mis of l)einy fertile. This pair make most ex- 
cellent foster parents, they have reared such different birds as 
Domestic Piyeon, Brush Bronze-winy, Deceptive Doves and 
Aurita Doves. 
The last three Turtle X Barbary hybrids reached me in Sep- 
tember, lOO,'), they consisted of (me male and two females. They 
were not such fine liirds nor so distinctly marked as the two I ol)- 
tained in r.Hl4. A pair of these birds mated together in Feliruary, 
I'.HXi, they remained mated for about fourteen UKmths, many egj^s 
were laid, but none were fertile. I then gave the hen away and she 
was mated to a Barbary cock, again no eggs were fertile. In March, 
1907, the cock hybrid mated with a rather small Half-collared 
Turtle hen {7\ sciiiito/rjKft/ its). In the first nest one egg was fertile 
l)ut did not hatch, then followed eight eggs ( f'oio- ;/r,s/'.s) all unfertile, 
ami in August two more eggs were laid, one being again unfertile, 
but the other hatched and was reareil. It has proved to be a hen, in 
colour she is very light 1)eing much more of the colour of a Bar- 
l)ary Dove than her father, liut she greatly resembles a Half-collared 
Dove in shape. There is a distinct ashy shade on the crown and the 
eye is surrouiided with some dull red skin : she has mated to a De- 
ceptive X Barliary hybrid cock, and hiys rather small very round 
eggs, (luite unlikeeither those of tlie lialf-coUared or Bai-liary Dove, 
I have none of the Common Turth'dier only other ancestor) by me 
for comparison. I have not kept a record of the numl)er of 
eggs she has laid, liut last summer this pair hatched a young one, 
a truly remarkal)le hybrid : it was not however reared. 
In l'.)O.S, the Turtle X Barbary male and his Half-collared 
