428 REVIEW OF JAPANESE BIRDS. 



[Turtur risorius (Lixn.).] 

 Barbary Turtle-dove, 

 175S.—CoJumba risoria Linn., S. N., 10 ed., i, p. IG5.— M., S. N., 12 ed., I, p. 285 (1766). — 



SciiLKGEL, Mils. r.-Bas, Colniub.,p. 1:3.j (187:3). 

 lS'S8.—Colti7nba risoria rfomcsifica Temminck, PI. Color., i, Tahl. Mdth., p. 81. 



We include this species here only to call attention to it, as it appar- 

 ently only occurs domesticated. T. douraca torquaius is also kept in con- 

 finement, but Sclilegel enumerates two Avliite specimens of the present 

 form brought from Japan by von Siebold as being in the museum at 

 Leiden. 



(IGOr}). Turtur humilis (Temm.). 

 Dwarf Turtle-dovo. 



imA.—Coluniba 7(Hnu7isT£MMiNCK, PI, Color,, iv, livr, 44,pl3.25-',259,— Tin-<«j'7i, Gray, 

 Gen. B., ii, p, 472 (1844).— Walden, Tr. Zool, Soc, ix, 1875, p. 219,— Hl'me, 

 Stray Feath,, iv, 187G, p, 292, — Blakist,, Amend, List B. Jap., p, 4:i 

 (1884).— Seebohm, Ibis, 1884, p. 179. 



1875._3Vn-<wr humilinr Hume, Stray Feath., iii, p. 279. 



1882.— Turtur ? Blakiston & Pryer, Tr. As. Soc. Jap., x, 1882, p. 129, 



Lord Walden and Mr. Hume have already pointed out the differences 

 between the birds of the Indian peninsula and the eastern representa- 

 tive, to which they apply the above name. I have not sufficient ma- 

 terial to decide, however, whether our bird should stand as above or 

 as Turtur tranqueharicus humilis. 



In addition to the specimens recorded by Blakiston and Pryer as 

 obtained by Owston at Yokohama, I have to record the capture of ai 

 young male near Nagasaki by Mr. Petersen. 



The adult male of the Ked Turtle-dove, as this species is also called, 

 may be easily identified by the short description of Messrs. Blakiston 

 and Pryer (L c). The young male may be described as follows : 



$ juv. (Zoo/, il/ws. University, Christiania. Xagasalxi, Kiusiu. November y 

 1886, Petersen coll.). — Head ab ove smoke-gray, fore-head and anterior 

 part of crown somewhat paler gray ; hind neck similarly colored though 

 more tinged with pale cinnamon ; lower end of hind neck encircled by a 

 black semilune, which is bordered ant eriorly on the side by a narrow 

 line of whitish ; mantle of a dark brownish drab, the individual feathers 

 faintly bordered with dull cinnamon, more vivid on the wing-coverts j 

 lower back, rump, and upper tail-cov erts plumbeous, the feathers down 

 the middle line more or less margined at the tips with the color of the 

 mantle; fore-neck and breast drab gray, gradually shading into whitish 

 on throat, chin, and sides of head, the feathers indistinctly margined 

 with pale cinnamon; middle of abdomen white; under wing-coverts 

 and flanks plumbeous ; under tail-coverts white, laterally tinged with 

 plumbeous ; remiges blackish brown, the anterior primaries and second- 

 aries narrowly edged with very pale buff"; primary coverts like the^ 

 primaries, but tipped with cinnamon ; central pair of tail-feathers uni- 

 form slate-gray, tinged with drab ; the two follow ing pairs similar ia 

 their terminal third, the basal two-thirds being of a blackish slate color J» 



