432 peristerid^i. 



Colurnba chinensis, Severtz. {nee Scop.) Turk. Jevotn. p. 68 (1873). 

 Turtur stoliczkae, Hume, Str. Feath. ii. p. 519 (1874) (Kashgar, 



Turkestan), iii. pp. 217 note, 415 (1875) ; Scully, Str. Feath. iv. 



p. 178 (1876) ; Legge, B. of Ceyl. p. 702 (1880) ; Sharpe, Sc. Bes. 



Sec. Yark. Miss., Aves, p. 117, pi. xiv. (1891). 

 Turtur risoria, Stolicz. (nee Linn.), Str. Feath. iii. p. 217 (1875) 



(Kashgar). 

 Turtur bitorquatus, Mart, (nee Temm.) Preuss. Exp. Ost-As., Zool. 



i. p. 370 (1877). 

 Streptopelia torquata, Boyd, (nee Briss.) Tr. Sib. Obtsch. Jesfestv. xii. 



p. 98 (1881; ; id. Consp. Av. Imp. Boss. i. p. 9 (1884) ; Menzb. Ibis, 



1885, p. 357 (Aksu, Kashgar) ; Pleske, Mem. Ac. Petersb. (7) xxxvi. 



n. 3, p. 46 (Turkestan) (1888). 

 Turtur douraca torquatus, Stejn. Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. 1887, p. 426. 

 Turtur torquatus, Stejn. op. cit. p. 427 : Tacz, P. Z. S. 1887, p. 609, 



1888, p. 467 (Corea). 



Adult male. Head, neck, and chest pale pink or vinous, fading 

 into white on the chin ; forehead paler ; no black feathers in front 

 of the eyes ; on the hind neck a broad black collar, partially edged 

 above and below with white : back, scapulars, and inner half of the 

 wing-coverts, innermost secondaries, and central tail-feathers very 

 pale brown, passing into pearl-grey on the outer upper wing-coverts 

 and secondaries ; rump partially washed with grey ; bastard wing 

 and primary-coverts pearl-grey, tipped with brown ; primaries dark 

 brown, generally with partial light edges ; lateral tail-feathers 

 leaden grey, fading gradually into white towards the tips ; the 

 under surface of the tail is sharply divided into a black base and 

 a white-grey apical portion ; on the outer feathers the black 

 extends farther towards the end on the outer web ; the pink of the 

 chest shades into grey, of a deeper or lighter tint, on the flanks, 

 abdomen, vent, and under tail-coverts ; under wing-coverts very 

 light pearl-grey ; under surface of the quills brown, fading into ashy 

 white on their inner webs towards the base of the feathers : irides 

 red; bill black ; legs dark pinkish red. Total length 1T9 inches, 

 wing 6*8, tail 5, bill 1*6, tarsus 0-9. 



Female. Similar to the male. 



Hab. Odessa, Lower Danube, Turkey*, Palestine, Persia, India, 

 Ceylon, Eurmah, China, and also Japan. 



a. Jad.sk. Jericho, Jan. (Tristram). Shelley Coll. 



b. j ad. sk. Ghor es Safieh, Pales- Seebotim Coll. 



tine, Jan. (Tristram). 



c. Ad. sk. Ghor es Safieh, Palestine, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Jan. (Tristram). 



d. e. Ad. sk. Ghor es Safieh, Palestine. Canon Tristram [C.]. 

 f. Ad. sk. Mesopotamia. 



y. Juv. sk. Mesopotamia. India Museum [P.]. 



h, i. Ad. sk. Muscat. Col. Miles [P.]. 



k, I. Ad. sk. Persia. Kenneth Loftus, Esq. [P.]. 



* I have been informed ou good authority that this bird is very common eTen 

 in Albania near Valona, which would be the most western part inhabited by it. 



