478 BIRDS OF INDIA. 



and it departs in October. It breeds in May, making a plat- 

 form nest on tall forest trees." If this be, as Blyth conjectures, 

 rupicolus, where does it go to in October ? It does not, that we 

 know, visit the plains of India, and it can barely be expected 

 to go north at that season, Blyth states that he has often had 

 T. meena in confinement in an aviary, and remarked them to 

 be very taciturn, scarcely ever uttering a sound. 



Other allied species, besides T. auntus of Europe, are T. lugens 

 and T. uahellinus of North Africa ; and T. erythrocephalus of 

 Southern Africa. 2\ cinereus is recorded from China and the 

 Philippines. 



T. picturatus, Teram., from Madagascar, T. rostratus, from the 

 Seychelles, and T. precortianus, Bonap., from the Marrianne Islands, 

 are placed by Bonaparte in this section ; but Mr. Blyth remarks 

 that these should stand in a separate section, per se ; for they 

 do not exhibit the coloration of this group. 



2nd, Maculicolhs — Bonap. 



This section, which Blyth called neck-laced Turtle-doves, com- 

 prises some small species of a vinaceous hue with grey wings, 

 and a broad gorget, more or less complete in front, of black 

 feathers, with rufous tips. Two or three races have been discrimi- 

 nated, very closely allied to each other. 



794. Turtur cambayensis, Gmelin. 



Columba, apud Gmelin — T. senegalensis, apud Sykes, Cat. 

 143 — Jerdon, Cat. 293 — Blyth, Cat. 1438— T. maculicoUis, 

 Wagler (in part) — Tortru fachta, H. — Chitti hella guiva and 

 Sowata (/inva, Tel. — Touta-porali, Tam. 



The Little Brown-dove. 



Descr. — Above brown, the head and upper part of the neck 

 pinkish vinaceous ; wing-coverts, except towards the scapulars, pure 

 light grey ; winglet, primaries, and their coverts, dusky ; the 

 secondaries tinged with grey ; tail with the middle feathers brown ; 

 the others black at the base, white for nearly their terminal half; 

 beneath, the neck and breast pinkish vinaceous, paling below, and 

 passing to white on the belly and lower tail-coverts ; the sides of 



