5. TTTETTJB. 435 



(1878) ; Hume, Str. Fcath. viii. p. 210 (1879) ; Bingh. Str. Feath. 



ix. p. 194(1880); Tiveedd. Orn. Works, p. 383 (1881); Wardl. 



Rams. ibid. p. G59 (1881) ; Tacz. J. f. O. 1881, p. 187 (Askold I.) ; 



Oates, Str. Feath. x. p. 235 (1882) ; id. Birds of Brit. Burm. 



ii. p. 294 (1883); Blakist. Amend, List B. Jap. p. 43 (1884); 



Seebh. Ibis, 1884, p. 179; ? Marsh. Ibis, 1884, p. 421 (Chainba) ; 



Stejn. Pr. U.S. Nat, Mus. 1887, p. 428 ; Hume, Str. Feath. xi. 



p. 299 (1888) (Manipur, N.E. Cachar) ; Tristr. Cat. Coll. B. 



p. 38 (Formosa) (1889) ; Salvad, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. (2) vii. 



p. 424 (1889) ; Steere, List, p. 24 (1890) (Mindoro, Luzon) ; 



Hartl. Abh. nat. Ver. Brem. xi. p. 406 (Extr. p. 14) (1890) ; Seebh. 



B. Jap. Emp. p. 102 (1890) ; Styan, Ibis, 1891, pp. 328, 439 



(China) ; Ilartert, Kat. YogeUamml. p. 188 (1891) ; id. J. f. O. 



1891, p. 300. 

 Columba (!-) terrestris, Temm.Jide Rchnb. Syn. Av. Columbariae, p. 3 



(1847). 

 Streptopelia humilis, Bp. Consp. Av. ii. p. 66 (part.) (1854) ; id. 



Compt. Bend. xl. pp. 18, 219, n. 193 (part.) (1855) ; id. Coup 



d'ceil Ordre Pig. pp. 32, 57, n. 193 (part.) (1855); id. Compt. 



Rend. xli. p. 659 (1855) : Rchnb. Tauben, i. p. 76, t. 247. f. 1370 



(1862) ; O. R. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 239, n. 9331 (part.) (1870). 

 Turtur terrestris. Mcrcatorum, fide Bp. Compt. Rend. xl. p. 18 



(1855) ; id, Coup d'ceil Ordre Pig. p. 32 (1855). 

 Coluraba (Peristera) humilis, Schrenck, Vbg. d. Amur-L. p. 284 



(1860). 

 Turtur (Streptopelia) humilis, v. Mart, J.f. O. 1866, p. 24. 

 Turtur humilior, Hume, Proc. As. Soc. Beng. 1874, p. 241 (Anda- 



mans) ; id. Str. Feath. iii. pp. 279, 280 (1875). 

 Turtur tranquebavicus, Blyth (nee Herm.), B. Burm. p. 145 (1875). 

 Turtur sp., Blakist, 8f Pryer, Tr. As. Soc. Jap. x. p. 129 (1882). 



Adult male. Vinous red ; head, lower back, rump, upper tail- 

 coverts, under wing-coverts, and flanks grey ; head paler, especially 

 on the forehead ; chin whitish, changing into the vinous red of the 

 neck ; a black collar on the hind neck, dividing the grey of the head 

 from the vinous red of the upper parts ; outer greater wing-coverts 

 dark greyish ; primary-coverts and quills blackish, with narrow 

 pale edges ; lower abdomen ashy ; under tail-coverts white, more 

 or less tinged with grey ; central tail-feathers ashy brown, the 

 others dark ashy, with a broad terminal ashy-white band, the white 

 also occupying the outer web of the outermost feathers : " bill 

 black; iris dark brown; legs and feet purplish red" (Chennell). 

 Total length about 9 inches, wing 5 - 5, tail 3 - 5, bill 0-52, tarsus 

 0-72. 



/•' male. General colour pale brown, but the lower parts vinous 

 grey where vinous red in the male ; there is a black collar as in the 

 male, but edged above with whitish grey. 



Huh. From Cachar through Burmah to the Andamans, and east- 

 . ward to Cochinchina, China, and the Philippine Islands. 



a. Ad. st. [India]. Baron Laugier's Coll. 



b, c, d. $ ad. et rS Shilling, June, July (A. W. Tweeddale Coll. 

 juv. sk. CketmeU). 



e. $ ad.sk. Nag? District, Feb. (J. B. Tweeddale Coll. 



Fairbank). 



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