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PERISTERID^E. 



Subfamily II. TURTURIN/E. 

 5. TURTUR. 



Key to the Subgenera. 



a. Feathers of the neck normal, not bifur- 



cated. 



a'. Two scale-like dark patches on the 



sides of the neck, with the edges of 



the feathers light coloured. 



a". Upper wing - coverts mottled, 



having the centres darker than 



the edges a. Turtur, p. 396. 



b' 1 . Upper wing -coverts not mottled, 



but uniform /3. Homopelia, p. 409. 



b'. A complete black collar on the hind 



neck y. Streptopelia, p. 413. 



b. Feathers of the hind neck bifurcated, 



black, with two white apical spots . . d. Spilopelia, p. 439. 



c. Feathers of the fore neck bifurcated, 



black, with two rufous apical spots . . e. Stigmatopelia, p. 448. 



Turtur. 



Type. 



Peristera, Boie, Isis, 1828, p. 327 {nee Sw. 1827) T. turtur. 



Turtur, Selhj, Nat. Libr., Pigeons, p. 109 (1835) T. turtur. 



Range. Palsearctic, ./"Ethiopian, and Oriental Regions. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Tips of the feathers on the sides of the neck 



white; under tail-coverts and terminal band 



across the tail white. 

 a'. Upper part of the head and rump lead-grey . . turtur, p. 396. 

 b'. Head, back, and rump sandy brown imbettinus, p. 400. 



b. Tips of the feathers on the sides of the neck grey. 

 <"'. Upper wing-coverts broadly edged with rusty 



red. 

 a". Under tail-coverts and terminal band across 



the tail pale, almost white as in T. turtur . farrago, p. 401. 

 b". Under tail-coverts and terminal band across 



the tail grey orientalis, p. 403. 



(T . Upper wing-coverts brown-grey ; only some 

 of the inner greater ones, and also some of 

 the tertials, with rusty-red edges ; under tail- 

 coverts deep grey ; general plumage very 

 dark grey lugens, p. 408. 



1. Turtur turtur. 



Turtur, Will. Orn. p. 134, t. 35 ; Ray, Av. p. 61 ; Alb. Av. ii. p. 43, 

 t. 47; Olina, Ucc. p. 34; Frisch, Av. t. 140; Briss. Om. i. p. 92 

 (1760). 



Turtur auritus, Ray, Syn. p. 184, n. 26. 



Columba turtur, Linn. S. N. i. p. 284, n. 32 ( 766) (India !) ; Om. 



