PREFERENCE BY THE FEMALE. 
119 
C6. 
At. 
Xiv 
« v r ° llVe de l’antipatlue pour un male avec lequel on 
^ decoupler, malgre tous les feux de 1 amour, 
“ ii U I'alpiste et le chenevis dout on la nourrit 
“ J*' 11 ' augment©! - son ardeur, malgre un emprisonne- 
« six mois et meme d’un an, elle rel'use con- 
ses caresses; les avarices empressees, les 
« r ^ acer ies, les tournoiemens, les tendres roucoulemcns, 
“ de U IJe P eut dn pl ; rii' e ni l’emouvoir ; gonflee, bou- 
Use > hlottie dans un coin de sa prisou, ello n’en sort 
'• e P°ur boire et manger, ou pour repousser avec une 
0 U ^ ce rage des caresses devonues trap pressautes.” 22 
ol jH . le ether band, Mr. Harrison Weir has himself 
l' err| ! .' °d, and has heard from several breeders, that a 
a 8- 6 pigeon will occasionally take a strong faucy for 
Ij^^d-ular male, and will desert her own mate lor 
ok.’ ® 01 ue females, according to another experienced 
liefer 
^Ulo; 
er = Riedel, 23 are of a profligate disposition, and 
almost any stranger to their own mate. Some 
'di'd^ 8 Ula ^ e8 > called by our English fanciers “gay 
If,. ’ ate so successful in their gallantries, that, as 
‘ J R Weir informs me, they must be shut up, on 
a Cc ,v oir mtorms me, they must ut 
^ r . at °f the mischief which they cause. 
in the United States, accordin 
to 
on, “ 
sometimes pay their addresses to the domes- 
“ C* Canales, and are generally received by them 
ptef,-. r ® rea l pleasure.” So that these females apparently 
1R "dd to their own males. 24 
Ltian- a more curious case. Sir It. Heron during 
fovvi y yeai ' s 
kept an account of the habits of the pea- 
" hich he bred 
in large numbers. 
He states that 
au< t Corbie, ‘ Les Pigeons,' 1S24, p, 12. Prosper Lucas 
1'Here'd. Nat.’ tom. ii. 1S50, p. 29U) has himself observed 
53 fc lill ' fac *-vith pigeons. 
21 ‘Ornim beDzueht '’ 182 b »■ 86 - 
1 hologieai Biography,’ vol. i. p. 13. 
