Cervus Campestris spotted white when a fawn compare with fallow? deer. & Moschus &c & — like young blackbirds

D^r Bachman^{1 2} told me that 1/2 Muscovy & common duck were often caught wild off coast of America.— showing hybrids can fare for themselves.||^a

++first year.— The bird fanciers match their birds to see which will sing longest, & they in evident rivalry sing against each other, till it has been known one has killed itself.—^{b 3}  Q ^c

Sir. J. Sebright— has almost lost his Owl-Pidgeons from infertility,—⁴
Yarrell⁵ says in such case they exchange birds with some other fancier, thus getting fresh blood, without fresh feather, & consequent trouble in obliterating the fresh feather, by crossing—^d  12 <sup>e



a</sup>Cervus . . . themselves||] crossed pencil
^b+ + first year . . . killed itself.—] passage continues from 102 'In singing . . . songs, the ++'
^c Q] added pencil in circle
^dSir. J. Sebright⁶ . . . by crossing—] crossed pencil
^e 12] added brown crayon

1. John Bachman, 1790-1874. DCP. 2. John Bachman: personal communication. 3. See Stanley, 1835 1:72, 'The bird-fanciers in London, who are in the habit of increasing the singing powers of birds to the utmost, by training them by high feeding, hot temperature of the rooms in which they are kept, and forced moutling, will often match one favourite Goldfinch against another. They are put in small cages, with wooden backs, and placed near to, but so they cannot see, each other: they will then raise their shrill voices, and continue their vocal contest till one frequently drops off its perch, perfectly exhausted, and dies on the spot.' 4. See C120 and D85. 5. William Yarrell, 1784-1856. DCP. 6. John Saunders Sebright (Sir John Sebright), 1767-1846. DCP.

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