4. TCKICRCEXA. 329 



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



d'ceil Ordre Pig. p. 21 (1855). 

 Tartursena delegorguii, lip. Consp. Av. ii. p. 45 (1854) ; id. Compt. 



Bend, xxxix. p. 1104 (1854), xl. p. 218, n. 129 (1855) ; id. Coup 



d'ceil Ordre Pig. pp. 21, 50, n. 129 (1855) ; Sharpe, in LtiyanVs B. 



S. Afr. p. 563 (18*4). 

 Peleioenas delegorguei, Rehnb. Tauben, i. p. 54 (1802). 

 Turturcena delegorguei, 6'. R. Or. Hand-list, ii. p. 234, n. 9253 (1870); 



Shell. Ibis, 1883, p. 289. 



Adult male. Head and neck slate-colour, slightly paler towards 

 the forehead and chin ; back of the head and back and sides of tho 

 neck very strongly glossed with metallic amethyst-lilac, with reflec- 

 tions of green in certain lights : across the upper mantle a broad 

 crescentic white band ; rest of the mantle and wings dark chestnut, 

 the former with purple and green reflections ; lower back, rump, 

 and upper tail-coverts 6late-black; lower part of the fore neck, 

 breast, and upper part of the abdomen deep vinous, changing into 

 dark slate-colour on the sides, vent, and under tail-coverts ; the 

 fore neck and crop-region with amethyst-lilac gloss ; the lower 

 breast and abdomen show very narrow lines or dottings ; quills and 

 primary-coverts slate-black, the former with narrow brown edges on 

 the outer webs ; under surface of the wiugs slate-colour ; tail slate- 

 black, with a narrow apical grey band, better defined below : " iris 

 dark brown ; bill ash ; bare skin round the eye and also the tarsi 

 and feet dark piuk" (Ai/res). Total length 11-5 inches, wing 7-3, 

 tail 4-6, bill 07, tarsus \>9. 



Female. Forehead and underparts grey, the latter with a slight 

 brown tinge, produced by very fine brown freckles ; crown, occiput, 

 and nape rufous cinnamon with a golden-green gloss; lower part of 

 the hind neck coppery, with green reflections ; remainder of the 

 upper parts slate-grey ; the feathers of the back and the upper wing- 

 coverts have obsolete brown edges, wanting in fully adult birds ; 

 under wing-coverts slate-black ; tail as in the male : " iris dull red ; 

 end portion of the bill yellow, basal portion dark purple ; legs flesh- 

 colour " {T. L. Ayres). Total length 11 inches, wing 6-3, tail 4-5, 

 bill 0-62, tarsus 0-85. 



J fab. Natal, S.E. Africa. 



a. J ad. sk. Tort Natal, S. Africa. Purchased. (Type of 



C. lunigera, Gr.) 



b. O ad. sk. Durban (T. L. Ayres). Shelley Coll. 



2. T\irturcena sharpei. (Plate IX. fig. 3.) 



Head and neck. Similar to the head and neck of T. delegorguei, 

 but the crown, occiput, back, and sides of the neck glossed with 

 metallic green, instead of amethyst-lilac ; forehead, cheeks, and 

 throat dove- or lead-grey : below the nape a broad silvery-white 

 band, formed by the tips of the feathers; each feather before the 

 white tip has a metallic-green narrow baud ; lower fore neck 



