'J'lic Caf'i' hove. 
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aiul fro in front of the nest the whole time, his movements beiny 
too quick for the exposure speed Hght permitted, for out of 
live exposures ah, save the one reproduced, showed double 
iiyures of some portion of the bird. 
1 am afraid, owiny to the wide mesh of the netting", 1 
shall lose most of the young when hatched, but I shall take as 
many of the young as I can as soon as they are old enough to 
leave their mother, and confine them elsewhere. 
1 have found young pheasants easy to rear on insectile 
mixture (custard for first few days), seed, dried ants' " eggs," 
and a few gentles — they soon take to a seed diet. 
A ccoiUDiodatioii : As already stated this need not be 
elaborate. A shed, which need only be small, with partly open 
front, say about 6ft. square, and a run about Joft. x loft. The 
run should contain several bushes, of low spreading- growth 
(Elder, Berberis and Thuja deprcssa), and ground herbage of 
grass and coarse growing' weeds. 
A pair of Parrots or Parrakeets could be kept in each 
pheasant enclosure. 
<y 
The Cape Dove (CEna capensis.) 
By Wesley T. Page, F.Z.S., M.B.O.U. 
This pretty and graceful dove has Ijeen known to avicul- 
ture for a long period, and, as it has been fairly plentiful on the 
market lately, a few remarks upon its native habits, treatment 
and life in captivity will probably be of interest. 
It is also known as the Harlequin, Naquama, and Masked 
r^ove, and it is by the latter name that it has been offered 
recently; but the cognomen at the head of these notes is the 
most accepted avicultural apellation for it. 
It is numerous in Tropical and Southern Africa, and less 
so in Madagascar and Arabia. 
ncscriptiuii (Adult male). ( icneral body colouration a 
sort of palish brownish-cinnamon-grey; two black bands across 
the rump with the space between buffi.sli-brown ; black face mask; 
