5. TURTUR. 411 



narrow whitish edges ; lower back and rump slaty grey ; abdomen 

 pale vinous ; under tail-coverts white ; marginal under wing-coverts 

 vinous, the inner ones and axillaries greyish brown ; lateral tail- 

 feathers slaty grey, with an obsolete subapical black band and a 

 broad terminal grey band, which, on the inner web of the two outer 

 feathers, is almost white : " iris yellowish brown ; beak pinkish 

 horn-colour ; nostrils and skin round the eye and feet lake-red " 

 (E. Newton). Total length 11-5 to 12 inches, wing 6 b' to 6 - 0, tail 

 4-6 to 5, bill 0-72, tarsus 1. 



Young. " Greenish (or olive-brown ?), the feathers edged with 

 rufous; breast brown, with rufous lines ; abdomen reddish" (Milne- 

 Edwards and Grandidier). 



Hab. Madagascar, from where apparently it has been introduced 

 into several of the surrounding islands — Reunion, Mauritius, and 

 Seychelles. 



Two of the birds mentioned below, one from Anjuan, and the 

 other said to be from Bourbon, differ in some respects from typical 

 T. picturatus: both have the grey colour of the head washed with 

 vinous, and, after all, they may belong to T. comorensis, although the 

 rump is grey, as in T. picturatus. 



Madagascar. Purchased. 



Madagascar. Skarpe Coll. 



Madagascar, Aug. (A. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Crossley). 



Ankafana, Madagascar, Eev. Deans-Cowan 



March. Coll. 



e. 2 a d- sk. Ankafana, Madagascar, Shelley Coll. 



Feb. (Deans- Coican). 



f. Ad. sk. Bet9ileo, Madagascar, Tweeddale Coll. 



March [Deans- Coicav). 



q. Imm. sk. Central Madagascar. Shelley Coll. 



/'. Ad. sk. Shelley Coll. 



t. Ad. sk. Mauritius (Bewslier). Shelley Coll. 



/.-. Ad. sk. [var.]. Mauritius. E. Wilson, Esq. [P.]. 



I. 2 a d- sk. [var.]. Anjuan. Purchased. 



7. Turtur aldabranus. 



Turtur aldabranus, Selat. P. Z. S. 1871, pp. 623, 692, pi. 73 (Aldabra 

 Is.) ; Garr. P. Z. S. 1873, pp. 468, 639, 1874, p. 256 ; Hartl. Vbg. 

 Maday. p. 270 (1877) ; Oust. Bull. Soc. Philom. 1878, p. 179 ; 

 Shell. Ibis, 1888, p. 318; Sclat. List J'ert. An. 8th ed. p. 454 

 (1883) ; Milne-Edw. $ Oust. Nouv. Arch. Mm. (2) x. pp. 275. 276 

 (1889). 



Turtur aldabramus (errore), Gieb. Thes. Orn. iii. p. 725 (1877). 



Turtur aldebranus, E. Newt. P. Z. S. 1877, p. 300. 



Adult male {type). Very similar to that of T. comorensis, from 

 which it is scarcely distinct, differing only in having the tips of the 

 feathers on the sides of the neck with a distinct amethystine lustre, 

 the vinous tinge on the lower parts more extended on the abdomen, 

 and the flanks more greyish, so that the lower parts appear less 



