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Pigeon (C. bollei) about the same date ; this Pigeon must

therefore be added as No. 446. i.


p. 231. 449. Blue Rock Pigeon. Add: c, Domestic Pigeon

X Barbary Dove. Whitley tells me that he once reared

this cross “ some years ago ”, the only success he has ever

obtained though he has paired up many. The father was

a small White Owl-Pigeon. Dr. Podmore in the Cage Bird

Fancy of 29th October , 1932, records two Pigeon-Dove

crosses he has at last obtained after years of experiment ;

one was from a Domestic Pigeon, a very small Blue Rock

mated with a hen Barbary. Two young were reared from

the first clutch, the first time this has occurred in thirty

years of experiment ; usually the breeder found that young

were produced only after long mating, d, Domestic Pigeon

X Turtle-dove. Dr. Podmore (as above) also reared this

cross recently. One young one (a cock) was reared after

the father, a cross-bred Almond Tumbler had been paired

with the hen Turtle-dove for two years. When six months

old the young bird was mated to another hen Turtle-dove,

but whether there was issue we are not told. I had hoped

to have obtained more details of these interesting results,

but to date know nothing more, e, Domestic Pigeon

X Eastern Turtle-dove (Streptopelia orientalis (Lath.)).

One was reared near Tokyo in Japan teste Momiyama, who

says the young bird much resembled the father ( Hachisuka ,

1928, 27).


p. 104. Long-tailed Cuckoo-dove (Macropygia leptogrammica).


Two races have been bred. First, M. 1. umchall, the Indian

form, by Mme Lecallier in France in 1926 and 1927 ; this

was recorded under the name lusalia, but Delacour says that

that race has never been imported and that the proper name

is (as given here) umchall. See L’Oiseau, 1927, 249;

1928, 364. Ezra reared one young bird of the Haut-Laos

race, M. umchall minor (not swinhoei, as in the original

account, teste Delacour), in October, 1927 ; see UOiseau,

1928, 63 (Medal) and A.M., 1928, 21, 52. The breeder



