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 CaptivityIn 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.In 1915 I bred one grey only. In 1916 only one light or fawn coloured dove was bred, and in 1917-18, owing to the war, no birds were bred. I simply retained all the stock I could, and when the war ended I was left with one grey male and two fawn grey-bred) birds - a male and a female.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.