426 PEKISTERID.E. 



into leaden grey on outer upper wing-coverts ; lower back and rump 

 grey-brown along tbe middle, leaden grey on the sides ; upper tail- 

 coverts grey-brown ; middle of the abdomen buffy white ; under tail- 

 coverts white ; primary-coverts and quills blackish, with pale narrow 

 edges ; under wing-coverts leaden grey ; central tail-feathers brown- 

 grey, the lateral ones black on the basal half ; the terminal half is 

 white on the outer feathers, grey on the inner ones ; tail underneath 

 black on the basal half, white on the terminal one, the outer feathers 

 have the outer web white : " iris brown ; bill black : legs pinkish 

 red." Total length 10-5 inches, wing 6, tail 4-6, bill 0-55, tarsus 0-85. 



Female. Similar to the male. 



Young. Duller and with pale edges to the feathers of the upper 

 parts. 



Hab. Cape Colony, extending into Natal and Southern Transvaal. 



I suspect that there is some mistake as regards the locality 

 " Bogos " assigned to three of the specimens mentioned below, as 

 nobody else has found T. capicola in N.E, Africa, and, besides, be- 

 tween that part of the country and S. Africa lays the region 

 inhabited by T. damarensis. 



a, b. Imm. 9t. et S. Africa. Sir A. Smith's Coll. 



pull. sk. (Types of Columba bicincta, Smith, in Brit. Mus.) 



0. Juv. sk. S. Africa. Hardwicke Bequest. 

 d. Ad. sk. S. Africa. Capt. Fitzroy [P.]. 

 e,f. Ad. sk. S. Africa. J. Roche, Esq. [P.]. 

 g, h. Ad. sk. Cape (E. A. Butler). Shelley Coll. 



i, k. Ad. sk. Cape Town, Jan., Feb. Shellev Coll. 



(G. E. S.). 



1. c? pull. sk. Knysna. Purchased. 



m. $ ad. sk. Mossell Bay, April (F. W. and C. G. Oates, 



Oates). Esqrs. [P.]. 



n. S ad. sk. Maritzburg (F. Oates). W. and C. G. Oates, 



Esqrs. [P.]. 



o,p. $ ad. sk. Natal. J. II. Gurney, Esq. [P.]. 



q. $ ad. sk. Weeneen, April. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



r. j ad. sk. Between Pretoria and W. and C. G. Oates, 



Muugwato (F. Oates). Esqrs. [P.]. 



s, t, u. Ad. et juv. [Bogos (Esler).] Shelley Coll. 

 sk. 



v. Ad. st. [Indian Archipelago.] Baron Laugier Coll. 



18. Turtur damarensis. 



? Tourterelle blonde a collier, Levaill. Ois. d'Afr. vi. p. 78, pi. 268 



(1808) ; Sundev. Brit, om Levaill.f. 54 (18-37) (ex Terra Damar.); 



E. L. Layard, Ibis, 1869, p. 374. 

 Columba risoria, part., Temm. Pig. et Gal/in. i. pp. 323, 481 (1813) ; 



Wagl. Syst. Ax. Columba, sp.93, nota (1827). 

 Turtur -vmaceus, Strickl. $ Scl. (nee Gm.) Contr. Om. 1852, p. 157 



(Damara). 

 Turtur albiventris, Hartl, [nee Gr.) P. Z. S. 1867, p. 827 (Zanzibar) ; 



Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1875, p. 715 (Mombas) ; ? Fischer, Zeitschr. ges. 



Om. 1884, p. 377 (Mkaramo, Massailand) ; Emin,J.f. 0. 1891, 



p. 58 (Ugogo). 



