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if let alone, it is not quarrelsome. It is a free breeder, but like 
many other species one may possess several pairs before secur- 
ins^' what may be properly called, a " breeding- pair." I have 
found it quite hardy. 
EcTROPKAN TuRTr.K DovK (T . coininunis ) . This pleasin.q' 
species will be well known to my readers as a summer visitor to 
the British Isles — it is very similar in its habits, etc., to T. risori- 
iis. but is the better for being- taken indoors during the winter 
months, though an unheated room is all the protection it needs. 
It nests annually in the garden next door to mine in a huge pear 
tree, but though my garden supplies exactly similar accommoda- 
tion T am unable to trace its ever having nested therein. On one 
occasion young have been reared in my aviary. It is given to 
(I'lsliing about rather wildly in captivity and, unless the aviary 
is a large one, is rather disturbing to the other inmates, but my 
p iir were not pugnacious, even to other doves, unless attacked, 
when il was well able to " hold its own." 
A'tnackoits Turtlk Dove fT. 7'inaccns ) . A very pleas- 
ing species, which, however, did not breed with me, though I 
once had a true pair, but there were too many species of doves at 
that time in quite a moderate-sized aviary, and the Vinaceous 
niade no attem])t to nest. 
It is a native of Tropical N. .Africa. 
Its popular name aptly describes its principal coloura- 
tion — tlie general vinaceous hue is washed with pinkish on the 
head and neck, the back and wings are browner and the latter 
variegated to some extent with black; there is a broad black 
collar on the back of the neck, narrowly edged with whitish-buff 
above: the greater part of the lower plumage is white. 
It has bred freely at the London Zoo and is a good species 
for a mixed aviary, but it is very seldom imported and I had no 
opportunity of replacing my pair when an unfortunate accident 
gave them their freedom. They flew right away! 
'Red r.Rorx'i) or PAR i RinfiK IOovk ( G co1r\i^au uioiifana ) 
A pretty species, which spends nearly its whole time upon the 
grf)un(l, though with me it has always nested at as high an eleva- 
