538 PEKISTERID^. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Abdomen and under tail-coverts rufous cinnamon. 

 a'. Occiput, hind neck, crop-region and upper 



breast metallic coppery red ; forehead white. 

 a". Back and wings brown-olive. 



a"'. Larger; wing 6 inches: abdomen and 



under tail-coverts paler cinnamon larvata, p. 538. 



b'". Smaller; wing 5 - l inches: abdomen and 



under tail-coverts darker cinnamon .... bronzina, p. 540. 

 b" . Back and wings dark brown, with a purple 



gloss johnstoni, p. 541. 



b' . Occiput and nape with only a green coppery 



gloss inornata, p. 541. 



b. Abdomen and under tail-coverts whitish <'"■ _/* a ' P.' ' 



J simplex, p. ;j42. 



1. Haplopelia larvata. 



Tourterelle a masque blanc, Levaill. Ois. d'Afr. vi. p. 80, pi. 269 



(1808). 

 Columba larvata, Temm. fy Knip, Pig. i. fam. sec. p. 71, pi. 31 



(1808-11) ; Temm. Pig. et Gallin. i. pp. 266, 471 (1813) ; Vieill. 



N. D. xxvi. p. 382 (1818) ; Steph. Gen. Zool. xi. p. 61 (1819) ; 



Vieill. Enc. Meth. i. p. 387 (1823) ; Desm. Diet. So. Nat. xl. 



p. 335 (1826) ; Wagl. Syst. Av. Columba, sp. 67 (1827) ; Less. 



Tr. d'Orti. p. 471 (1831) ; id. Compl. de Buff., Ois. viii. p. 45 



(1837) ; id. op. cit. 2nd ed. p. 281 (1838) ; Licht. in Forst. Descr. 



An. p. 52 (note) (1844) ; Sundev. K. Sv. Vet.-Ak. Sandl. 1857, 



p. 54. 

 Peristera larvata, Selb. Nat. Libr., Pigeons, p. 211, pi. 26 (1835) 



(syn. emend.); G. R. Gr. Gen. B. ii. p. 476, n. 6 (1845); 



Rchnb. Syn. Av. f. 1434 (1847) ; Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. 



p. 237, n. 1439 (1849) ; G. R. Gr. List B. Brit. Mus. Columbffi, 



p. 36 (1856) ; Layard, Birds S. Afr. p. 263 (1867) ; Gum. Ibis, 1868, 



p. 47 (Natal); Shell. Ibis, 1875, p. 84 (Durban) ; Woodw. Zoolog. 



1875, p. 4617 (Natal) ; Barratt, Ibis, 1876, p. 208 (Macomac; : 



Ay res, t. c. p. 433 (Ly den burg). 

 Columba sylvestris, Forst. (nee Vieill.) Descr. An. p. 52 (1844) 



(Cape). 

 Peristera sylvestris, G. R. Gr. Gen. B. Index, p. 112 (1849). 

 Leptoptila larvata, Rchnb. Av. Syst. Nat. p. xxv (1852) ; Schlea. 



Mus. P.-B. Columbas, p. 161 (1873). 

 Aplopelia larvata, Bp. Consp. Av. ii. p. 66 (1854) ; id. Compt. Rend. 



xl. pp. 18, 219, n. 194 (1855) ; id. Coup d'wil Ordre Pig. pp. 32, 



57, n. 194 (1855) ; G. R. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 243, n. 9402 (1870) ; 



Sousa, Mus. Nac. Lisb. Colunibse, p. 17 (1873); Holub $/■ Pelz. 



Bcitr. Om. Siidafr. p. 176 (1882) ; Hartert, Nat. Vogelsamml. 



p. 187 (part.) (1891). 

 Haplopeleia larvata, Rchnb. Tauben, i. p. 76, t. 258. f. 1434 (1862). 

 Haplopeleia erythrogastra, Rchnb. Tauben, i. p. 77 (1862), ii. p. 176, 



Novit. Suppl. t. hi. f. 28 (1802). 

 Turtur larvatus, Gieb. The.s. Om. hi. p. 727 (1877). 

 Sericophila (errore) erythrogastra, Gieb. 1. c. in syn. T. larvati. 

 Haplopelia larvata, Salv. Cat. B. Strickl. Coll. p. 549 (1882) ; Shell. 



