O. TtJRTCR. 



Younger birds have the forehead vinous 

 head, throat, and chest more reddish. 



ffab. Eastern Africa, from Abyssinia 



7° S. lat. J 



«• Ad. st. Abyssinia. 



b. <x ad. sk. Abyssinia, Sept. 



e. 2 ad. sk. Ankober, Abyssinia, June 



(Harris). 



d, e. 6 ad. et Angollallah, Abyssinia, May 



JUV. sk. (Harris). 



f. 2 ad. sk. Senafe, Abyssinia, Feb. 



y. 6 ad. sk. Near Tavita, Kilimanjaro, 



July. 

 h. Ad. sk. Pangani R. {Kirk). 



i. Imm. sk. Mamboio (Kirk). ' 



409 



grey, the sides of the 

 to Mamboio, about 



Purchased. 

 Riippell's ColJ. 

 India Museum [P.]. 



India Museum [P.l. 



W. T. Blanford, Esq. 



[C.]. 

 H. C. V. Hunter, Esq. 

 [P.]. 



Shellev Coll. 

 Shelley Coll. 



/3. HoJIOPELIA. 



Homopelia, Salvad. MS. 



Range. Madagascarian subregion. 



T. picturatus. 



Key to the Species. 



Feathers of the hind neck, and more conspicuously 



these on the sides of the neck, with black 

 hidden bases and vinous or grey-vinous edges 

 a. Central tail-feathers brown. * 



i' S ea( ' ""f rum P F?y picturatus, p. 409. 



o . Head not grey, but vinous, or vinous and 

 brown. 



""' ,7? ead ' neck ' an0 - lI PP er mantle vinous. 

 a'", lips of the feathers on the sides of 

 the neck with a distinct amethystine 

 lustre ; flanks distinctly greyish • 



,,„ ^er parts less white ' aldabranm, v . 411/ 



o . 1 ips ot the feathers on the sides of the 

 neck vinous red, with no amethystine 

 lustre; flanks less grey, lower' parts 



winter comorensis, p. 412. 



o . I pper parts, except the vinous forehead, 



i r f a^oft uniform brown cappingeri, p. 412 



6. Central tail-feathers, lower back, and rump P 



dark grey ; bill thicker than in any of the 



allied species .... ,. t * no 



r • rostratus, p. 413. 



6. Tartar picturatus. 



Clumba picturata, Tetnm. Pip. et Gallin. i. pp. 315, 480 (He de 



France) (1813); Wjffl N. I), xxvi. p. 3-57 (V^l^: St^hGen. 



Zool xi. p. ,s., , lsll,) ; Virill. Enc. Mrth. i. p. 3>3 (lso.3) i T(mm 



PL Col 242 givr 41, 1823); fibpjk. Gen. &o/. riv! p 280^ [SS'. 



?ffln^?v fe 5 1, /" J v- i ls -' ,i,: """^ ** - h '- c °i^ 



sp. ol (1827) ; Less. Oompl. de Buff., Out. viii. p. 50 (1837); id. op. 



