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vinous-red, weaker below ; the head ash-gray, paler towards the 

 forehead, and whitish on the chin; a black half-collar on the 

 nape; the rump and upper tail-coverts dusky-ash; vent and 

 lower tail-coverts white, the former tinged with ashy; middle 

 tail-feathers ash-brown ; the rest successively more broadly tip- 

 ped with white, which spreads up the whole exterior web of 

 the outermost feather, and their basal two-thirds (more or 

 less) blackish ; margin of the wing gray for the anterior half ; 

 the primaries and their coverts dusky, and the secondaries 

 grayish-dusky. Irides dark brown ; bill black ; legs purplish-red. 

 Length 9^^ inches, and of wing 5^. Female rather smaller. 

 The young nearly resemble the adults of T. risorius, except in 

 their much smaller size, their general darker colour, especially 

 upon the head, and in wholly wanting the vinaceous tinge : in 

 this state of plumage they doubtless constitute the supposed 

 small race of T. risorius mentioned by Major Franklin. 



The Red Turtle-dove is generally diifased over the country, 

 though much less numerously than the gray one. It also keeps 

 more to cover, frequenting groves and high thick hedges. Its 

 coo is short and grunt-like. 



T. SENEGALENsis : Col. seitegalensis, Linn. : C. cambaiensis, 

 Gmelin : C. cegyptiaca, Latham : C. maculicollis, Wagler :• — 

 figured, but not well, and much over-coloured, in Denon's ^Egypt.^ 

 (Tortroo Fachtahj Hind.) (Necklaced Turtle-dove.) Brown 

 above, the wing-coverts (except towards the scapularies) pure light 

 gray ; winglet, primaries and their coverts dusky, the secondaries 

 tinged with gray ; head, upper part of neck and breast pinkish- 

 vinaceous, paler below, and passing to white on the belly and 

 lower tail -coverts ; the sides of the neck anteriorly (and meeting 

 imperfectly in front) adorned with a large patch of furcate fea- 

 thers, black at base, with a round rufous spot on each tip ; in the 

 living bird, these hardly appear at all when the neck is drawn 

 in ; and unlike the preceding species, there is no bar or other 

 marking on the nape ; tail graduated to the depth of an inch, 

 and its feathers attenuate a little towards their tips ; the middle 

 tail-feathers are brown ; the rest white for the terminal half, or 

 nearly so, and black for the remainder. Irides dark, with a white 

 inner circle ; bill blackish ; legs lake-red. Length 10 inches or 

 10|^ by 14 inches ; closed wing 5 inches. 



This delicate little species abounds in most parts of the penin- 

 sula, also in Western and Upper India generally, and it inhabits 

 the Rajmehal and Monghyr hills in Bengal ; but in Lower Bengal 

 I have never seen or heard of it wild, nor does it appear to occur 

 in the Himalaya or in the countries to the eastward. In the 

 peninsula, according to Mr. Jerdon, " it abounds both in low jun- 

 gles and near villages and cantonments, being found especially 



