Abstract
Before beginning this article on the
Masked Love Bird, it is with pride that
I announce the hatching of a new bird
to American Aviculture. I have been
fortunate to raise the first Albino Pe ach
Face Love Bird. The bird is in excellent
health, and it is pale lemon yellow in
color as anticipated, not pure white (cf.
A.F.A. Watchbird Vol. Il urn. 5 pg. 13).
The parentage itself is the most interesting
part of the story. The father, a
green/albino (i.e. split both blue and
Lutino) is mated to another hen in a
colony of Blue Birds (approximately
11 pairs). An explanation is difficult,
however' r am sure all of us have had
some similar experience. The male, as
far as I knew , was mated to a blue hen in
the aviary. In their first nest she hatched
two green birds and a red eyed bird that
died in the shell. This bird would have
been Albino, if it had lived, since it had
white down. The hen was sitting on a new
clutch of eggs when I noticed in a nest
box on the other wall of the aviary a new
hatching. The blue hen in this box had
as I now realize, also mated to the green/
Albino male and it is from her that we
hatched three babies, an Albino, a Lutino
and a Blue.