Bird Notes, 1923, Vol. 6: The Journal of the Foreign Bird Club, for the Study of All Species of Birds in Freedom and Captivity (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Excerpt from Bird Notes, 1923, Vol. 6: The Journal of the Foreign Bird Club, for the Study of All Species of Birds in Freedom and Captivity

In bird notes for 1913 I gave a few notes on the breeding Of Turtle Dove hybrids, etc.. A brief summary Of same being that in the spring of 1913 a first cross hybrid male dove (the produce of a d Turtle and a 9 Barbary Dove) mated with a Common Barbary hen and bred and reared three young. Two being fawn-coloured like an ordinary Barbary Dove. And one grey (a male) like the ground colour of the parent hybrid father, all with a Slight distinguishing mark in the beak. This mark, which enabled me to distinguish my hybrid fawns from pure Barbary Doves, was the red colour Of the fleshy base or gape of beak. They also showed a slight fullness later. In the width Of the neck rings, especially at the Sides. But the rings met at the back of neck just as in the Common Barbary.

In 1914 I mated this young grey male to a common Barbary hen, my net result being two youngsters, one grey and one fawn; these were indistinguishable from the type of the true Barbary, in every way.

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