COLTTMBID^. 



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A. 212. The left coracoid ; from the Pleistocene deposits of Malta. 



{F'uj.) The type (fig. 29). The characteristic Columbine features 



arc well shown in the process descending from the head 



and nearly meeting the large subclavicular process, which 



has no perforation at its base. 



Preseated by Admiral Spratt, C.B. 



Fig. 29. 



Columha melitensis. — ^Dorsal and Tentral aspects of left coracoid. }. 



Columba calcaria, Milne-Edwards i. 



Known by the humerus, which is considerably smaller than that of Ticriur 

 comniMiis. 



Hab. Europe (France). 



From the Lower Miocene (Upper Oligocene) of Allier. 



Genus TURTUR, Selby*. 



The tarso-metatarsus is relatively longer and more slender than 

 in Columha. 



Curttit: commum'jf, Selby ^. 



Syn. Columha turtur, Linn.^ 

 Hah. PaliEarctic region. 



A. 209. The right tarso-metatarsus, wanting the inner trochlea ; 

 from a Pleistocene cavern-deposit at Mentone, This 

 specimen, which has a length of 0,030, is slightly longer 



' Oiscaux Fossiles de la France, vol. ii. p. 292 (1869-71). 

 ^ Naturalist'.s Library — Ornithology, vol. v. p. 169 (1835). 

 3 Ibid. p. 153. 

 ■* Syst. Nat. ed. 12, vol. i. p. 281 (1766). 



