540 



PEPvISTEEID^E. 



skin round the eyes and the legs red" (Shelley). Total length 

 about 11 inches, wing 6, tail 4-2, bill 0-55, tarsus 1-02. 



Female. Similar to the male, but a little smaller and duller in 

 colouring ; greener and less coppery purple on the neck. 



Young. Upper parts brown with rufous bars ; breast rufous with 

 black bars ; forehead whitish rufous with brown bars. 



Immature birds have many feathers of the upper parts, and also 

 of the breast, with brown and rufous bars, remains of youth. 



Hub. South Africa. 



a, b, c. Ad. et juv. 

 sk. et st. 



d. Juv. sk. 



e. Ad. sk. 



f,g. 2 ad. et juv. 



sk. 

 h. Ad. sk. 

 i, Jc. Ad. sk. 

 /, m. Ad. sk. 

 n, o. c? ad. sk. 



p. Ad. sk. 

 q, r. Ad. et 



juv. sk. 

 8. 2 ad. sk. 



t. <$ juv. sk. 



u. Skeleton. 



S. Africa. 



S. Africa. 



Cape {Butler). 



Knysna, Jan. (C. /. Andersson). 



George (Atmore). 



Kingwilliamstown. 



Durban (Gordge). 



Durban, March, April (G. 



E. S.). 

 Pretoria (Pratt). 

 Macamac, Lydenburg. 



Macamac, Lydenburg, July 



(Ay res). 

 Macamac, Lydenburg, June 



(Ayres). 

 S. Africa. 



Purchased. 



Sir A. Smith [C.]. 

 Shellev Coll. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 



Shelley Coll. 

 Capt. Trevelyan [P.], 

 Shelley Coll. 

 Shelley Coll. 



Sharpe Coll. 



F. A. Barratt, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Gurney Coll. 



Purchased. 



2. Haplopelia bronzina. 



Columba bronzina, liiipp. Neue Wirbelth. p. 65, t. 23. f. 1 (1835) 



(Abyssinia) ; Des Murs, in Lefebvre, Toy. Abyss, p. 141 (1S45) , 



Heugl. J.f. 0. 1862, pp. 294, 306. 

 Peristera bronzina, G. It. Gr. Gen. B. ii. p. 476, n. 11 (1845); 



Ecnhb. Syn. Av. f. 1440 (1847). 

 Turtur bronzinus, Riipp. Syst. Uebers. p. 100 (1845) ; Heugl. Syst. 



Ueb. n. 318 (1856). 

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



xl. pp. 18. 219, n. 195 (1855) ; id. Coup dail Ordre Pig. pp. 32, 



57, n. 195 (1855) ; G. B. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 244, n. 9403 



(1870). 

 Haplopeleia bronzina, Bc/inb. Tauben, i. p. 77, t. 258. f. 1440 



(1862). 

 Aplopeleia bronzina, Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. 2, p. 844(1871). 

 Haplopeleia chalcea, Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. ii. App. p. cixxi(1875). 

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

 Haplopelia larvata, part., Shell. Ibis, 1883, p. 293. 

 Aplopelia larvata, Salvad, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. (2) i. p. 208 (1884), 



vi. p. 304 (1888) (Shoa) ; Hartert, Kat. Yogelsamml. p. 187 (part.) 



(1891). 

 Haplopelia bronzina, Tristr. Cat. Coll. B. p. 40 (1889). 



