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4. TURTURCENA. _ 



Type. 



Turturaena, Bp. Consp. Av. ii. p. 45 (1854) T. delegorguei. 



Turturoena, Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 194 (1857). 



Peleicenas, Rvhnb. Tauben, i. p. 54 (1802) (=Turtur- 



cena). 

 Trizusa, Heine, Nomencl. Mus. Hein. Orn. p. 276 



(1890) (=Turturcena). 



Range. From Liberia on the west and Mount Elgon on the east 

 to Natal. 



Key to the Species. 



a. A crescentic silvery-white band at the base 



of the hind neck of the males. 

 a'. Crown, occiput, back, and sides of the neck 



glossed with metallic amethystine colour ; 



tail slate-black, with a narrow apical grey 



band ; female without the silvery-white 



band at the base of the hind neck delegorguei, p. 328. 



b' . Crown, occiput, back, and sides of the neck 



glossed with metallic green sharpei, p. 329. 



b. No crescentic silvery-white band at the base of 



the neck of the males ; base of the hind neck 

 coppery amethystine. 



r . Tail uniform slate-black incerta $ , p. 330. 



d'. Tail more or less tinged with rufous. 



a". Tail with a broad yellow-buff apical band ; 



male with the head and neck dark grey, 



breast and abdomen deep vinous ; female 



more or less rufous on the posterior part 



of the head and neck ; underparts brown- 



grev iriditorques, p. 330. 



b". General plumage grey, paler below ; 



upper part of the head grey with 



amethystine reflections ; under tail- 

 coverts ochreous, tail dark grey above 



and with an ochreous tinge on the inner 



webs of the feathers malherbei, p. 331. 



1. Turturoena delegorguei. (Plate IX. figs. 1, 2.) 



Coluinba delegorguei, Delegorgue, Voy. Afr. Austr. ii. p. 615 (Port 



Natal) (1847) ; G. R. Gr. Gen. B. iii. App. p. 23 (1849) ; Verr. 



Rev. et May. de Zool. 1851, p. 514 ; G. R. Gr. List B. Brit. Mus. 



Columba?, p. 30(1856) ; Gum. Ibis, 1864, p. 354 (Natal) ; Layard, 



B. S. Afr. p. 257 (1867) ; Gieb. Tkes. Orn. i. p. 742 (1872) ; 



Tristr. Cat. Coll. B. p. 37 (1889). 

 Columba Johanna?, Verr. MS. Mus. Pkilad. 1851, jide Bp. Consp. 



Av. ii. p. 45 (1854) ; id. Compt. Rend, xxxix. p. 1104 (1854) ; id. 



Coup doeil Ordre Pig. p. 21 (1855). 

 Turtur delegorguii, G. R. Gr.fidc Bp. Consp. Av. ii. p. 46 (1854). 

 Columba lur.ige.ra, G. R. Gr. MS. in Mus. Brit. Jide Bp. Consp. Av. 



