330 



CnLU.MIUD.E. 



vinous grey with green gloss : bill in the dry skin bluish, with the 

 tip lighter. Length of the culmen of the bill OGS inch. 

 Hab. Mount Elgon (Jackson). 



a. Ad. Head & neck. Mount Elgon. F. J. Jackson, Esq. [P.] 



(Type of species.) 



3. Turturcena incerta. 



Female. Similar to the female of T. delegorguei, but smaller, 

 much more rufous on the head, neck, and underparts, and with the 

 tail uniform slate-black, without the narrow apical grey band. 



Head, neck, and underparts rufous brown, paler greyish on the 

 forehead and throat ; the underparts very minutely vermiculated ; 

 vent and under tail-coverts cinnamon ; the hind part of the head and 

 occiput with coppery lustre ; lower part of the hind neck metallic- 

 coppery amethystine ; rest of the upper parts slate-grey, with green 

 lustre on the interscapular region ; wings underneath slate-grey : bill 

 in dry skin pale horny ; feet pale yellowish. Total length about 

 9-2 inches, wing 5*7, tail 3 - 5, bill 0-65, tarsus 0-7. 



The type specimen is a bird which was alive in the Zoological 

 Society's Gardens ; it has a great resemblance to the female of 

 T. iriditorques, but it differs in having the tail entirely slate-black, 

 without any rufous-brown tinge, and with no yellowish-buff band 

 at the tip of the lateral feathers. 



Hab. Unknown. 



a. J ad.sk. Zool. Soc. Gardens. (Type of species.) 



4. Turturcena iriditorques. 



Turtursena malherbii, Bp. (nee Terr.) Consp. ii. p. 46 (1854)*; id. 



Compt. Rend, xxxix. p. 104 (part.) (1854), xl. p. 218, n. 180 



(1855); id. Coup (Tail Ordre Pig. pp. 20, 21, 36, n. 130 



(1855). _ 

 Columba iriditorques, Cass. Pr. Ac. Nat. Sc. Philad. 1856, p. 254 



(St. Paul's River, Moonda River) ; Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 267 



(1857); Cass. Pr. Ac. Nat. Sc. Philad. 1859, p. 143(Camma); 



Rchnb. Tauben, ii. p. 170(1862); ScJdeg. Mus. P.-B. Columba?, 



p. 69 (1873) ; id. Not. Lei/d. Mus. iii. p. 57 (Liberia) (1881) ; 



Biittik. Not. Leyd. Mus. vii. p. 227 (1885), viii. p. 264 (1886), x. 



p. 97 (1888), xi. p. 135 (1889) ; id. Reisebild. aus Liber, pp. 423, 



476 (1890). 

 Columba chalcauchia, G. R. Gr. MSS. ; id. List B. Brit Mus. 



Columbfe, p. 30 (Gaboon) (1856). 

 Turtursena chalcauchia, Bp. Compt. Rend, xliii. p. 837 (1856). 



* I have examined, in the Paris Museum, the bird described as T. malherbii, 

 adult male, by Bouaparte, and it undoubtedly belongs to T. iriditorques, which 

 at the time was not yet described ; Bonaparte's description is inaccurate. 



