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OEnopopelia tranguebarica humilis, Gyldenstolpe, Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, 

 1915, p. 235 (listed) ; Kungl. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Handl., 1916, p. 150 (Khun 

 Tan, Sop Tui) ; Ibis, 1920, p. 742 ("Throughout the country" ) .-DE 

 Schauensee, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1928, p. 575 (Chiang Mai) ; 

 1929, p. 580 (Chiang Mai). — Deignan, Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., 

 1931, p. 167 (Chiang Mai) ; 1936, p. S6 (Chiang Mai). 



It is probable that this little dove is common enough in all our prov- 

 inces, but up to now it seems to be recorded only from Chiang Mai 

 and Lampang. At Chiang Mai, while it was less numerous than the 

 preceding species, it was nevertheless quite common on the plain, and 

 was once (October 10, 1936) taken on Doi Suthep at 5,000 feet among 

 pines; this example, a female, was perhaps a migrant from farther 

 north. 



The habits of the red dove at Chiang Mai differed little from those 

 of the spotted-necked dove, although it was possibly more nearly 

 confined to the immediate vicinity of the Mae Ping, where it haunted 

 the giant bamboos and the banks of shingle or fed in the fields along 

 the river. 



Specimens of May 7 and 8 had the gonads enlarged and others of 

 May 15 and June 3 had them greatly enlarged. I took a juvenile 

 at Chiang Mai, May 16, 1935. 



Gyldenstolpe records that his specimens had the irides brownish 

 black; the bill black; the feet and toes blackish brown. My juvenile 

 had the irides, bill, feet, toes, and claws brown. 



The adult male has the head gray ; a narrow black band beginning 

 at the sides of the neck and crossing the nape ; the upper back deep 

 vinaceous-pink, becoming more vinaceous-red on the middle back, 

 scapulars, and wing coverts; the lower back, rump, upper tail coverts, 

 and tail slaty gray, the outer rectrices largely white ; the underparts 

 deep vinaceous-pink, albescent on the throat, becoming gray about 

 the lower flanks and vent and white on the under tail coverts. The 

 adult female resembles the male but has the vinaceous-red portions 

 of the plumage replaced by dull grayish brown and the other colors 

 much paler. The juvenile is similar to the adult female but lacks the 

 black collar, has the vinaceous of crown and underparts replaced by 

 dull grayish brown, and many of the feathers above and below edged 

 with fulvous. 



GEOPELIA STRIATA STRIATA (Linnaeus) 



Javanese Striated Ground Dove 



[Coltimba] striata Linnaeus, Systema naturae, ed. 12, vol. 1, 1766, p. 282 ("in 

 India orientali"; type locality restricted to Java, apiid Stuart Baker). 



Oeopelia striata striata, Deignan, Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., 1931, p. 

 167 (Chiang Mai) ; 1936, p. 86 (Chiang Mai). 



The striated ground dove is fairly common in an extensive grove 

 of mm kwao (Butea frondosa) along the Mae Khao, near the point 



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