Bird Life Through Ihe Camera. 275 
The nest is fairly bulky and in my aviaries has usually 
been constructed on the old nest of some other bird. 
Uescuiption: In the photos the dark markings are 
clearly brought out, so that I need not occupy space with 
describing these, merely indicating the various colour areas. 
Tiie adult male has the head, neck, breast and abdomen grey; 
crest black; back and rump grey with an olivaceous sheen; 
upper tail coverts brownish -grey tipped with white; sides 
of neck and breast tinged with a rosy hue; the wings are 
various greys, with bands of metallic green and violet-blue; 
central tail feathers brown, the others blackish, slightly glossed 
with purple, blue and green on the outer webs and tipped with 
white; bill blackish; naked skin round the eye pink; legs and 
feet pinkish -crimson. The sexes are similar^ but the female 
is slightly smaller. 
Thk Senecal Dove (Tutur senegalensis). This is a 
very beautiful and softly coloured African species. In the 
photo (No. 4) reproduced herewith, this species is figured 
nesting in an apple tree, one bough of which I had to remove 
to get the photograph, in which the sheeny areas and soft tones 
are well indicated and I hope these will come out well in 
the rei)roduction. This species is more frequently met with 
than any other of the Turtle tribe, and the rate at which they 
breed is so great that soon I shall have to liberate some. The 
Senegal should prove very useful as foster parents for some 
of the rarer and more dilflcult to breed species. 
Description: The adult male has the head, neck, and 
breast vinous; abdomen, vent and under tail coverts white; 
back chestnut with a lilac sheen; lower back and rump lead- 
grey; upper tail coverts brownish -grey; the wings are an 
arrangement of black, brown -grey, leaden -grey and grey, in 
which the latter hue predominates; the tail feathers are — 
commencing with the central ones — brownish-grey, the next 
two leaden-grey, and the others blackish-slate at the base, 
merging thi'ough grey to white at the tips; bill blackish; 
legs and feet crimson. The sexes are similar, but the female 
is slightly inferior in size and also richness of colouring. 
The Plumed Ground Dove (Lophnphnps plum^fcra): 
Another very beautiful Australian species which until compar- 
atively recently was quite rare, but is now fairly frequently 
