(4i) STREPTOPELIA SURATENSIS SURATENSIS (Gm.). 

 THE SPOTTED DOVE. 



Colutnha suratensis Gm., Syst. Nat., I p. 778, no. 48 (1788); Lath., Ind. Orn., 



II p. 609. 

 Columba tigrina (part) Temm. ; Pig. et Gall., I pp. 317, 481 (1813). 

 Turtur vitticollis Hodg., in Gray's Zool. Misc., p. 85 (descr. nulla). 



Tiirtur suratensis Strick., P.Z.S. 1842, p. 168 ; Blyth, J.A.S.B.. XIV, 2nd pt., 

 p. 874 (part) ; id.. Cat. M.A.S.B., p. 236 ; id., J.A.S.B., XXIV p. 263 

 Jerdon, B.I., in p. 479 ; Stoliczka, J.A.S.B., XXXVII pt. 2 p. 67 

 Godw-Aus., ib.. XXXIX pt. 2 p. 112; Hume, Str. Featli., I p. 218 

 Adam, ib., p. 390 ; Ball, ib., II p. 425 ; Hume and Butler, ib., IV p. 3 

 id.. Nests and Eggs, p. 504 ; Fairbank, Str. Feath., IV p. 262 ; id. ib. 

 V p. 409 ; Hume and Boiud., ib., VII p. 39 ; Dav. and Wend., ib. 

 p. 86 ; Ball, ib., p. 224 ; Cripps, ib., p. 297 ; Hume, ib., VIII p. 110 

 id.. Cat. no. 795 ; Scully, Str. Feath., VIII p. 341 ; Vidal, ib., IX p. 75 

 Butler, ib., p. 420 ; Legge, B. Cey., p. 705 ; Raid, Str. Feath., X p. 60 

 Dav., ib., p. 408 ; Barnes, B. Bom., p. 291 ; Hume, Str. Feath., XI 

 p. 298 ; Oates, in Hume's Nests and Eggs, 2nd ed., II p. 353 ; ShaqDe, 

 Yarkand Misc. Av., p. 119; Salvadori, Cat. B.M., XXI p. 444; Blanf., 

 Avi. Brit. I., IV p. 43 ; Barnes, J.B.N.H.S., V p. 331 ; Butler, ib., X 

 p. 310 ; Inglis, ib., XI p. 474 ; id. ib., XIV p. 562 ; Bourdillon, XVI 

 p. 3 ; Fulton, ib., p. 60 ; Ward, ib., XVII p. 943 ; Stuart Baker, ib., 

 p. 971 ; Magrath, ib., XIX p. 155 ; Perreau, ib., p. 919 ; Moss-King, 

 ib., XXI p. 99, Whitehead, ib., p. 167; D'Abreu, ib., p. 1167; Dewar, 

 Birds of the Plains, p. 124. 



Spilo'pelia suratensis Sharpe, Hand-List, I p. 80 ; Oates, Cat. Eggs B.M., 

 I p. 99. 



Vernacular Names. Chitroka fakhta., Chitia fakhta, Perki, Chitla, Kangs- 

 kiri, Panduk, Hin. ; Chaval ghughu, Telia ghughu, Bengali ; Kawala, Mahr. ; 

 Bode, Gond. ; Powari, Marie Gond. ; Poda-bella-guwa, Tel. ; Puli-pora, Tamil ; 

 Mani-praa, Tam. Ceylon ; Kobeya, Allikoheya, Cing. ; Ku-po-hu, Assamese ; 

 Kodaya punduk, Behari ; Daotu, Cachari ; Inruigu, Naga. ; Vohkurup, Kuki. 



Description- — Adult male. Upper portion of head and nape vinous, 

 more grey on tlie fore-head and often also above the eye ; a small spot or 

 streak of black between the eye and base of bill ; a demi-collar on back and 

 sides of neck of black feathers, bifurcate and with two wliite spots at the 

 tip ; on tlie uj^per-back the feathers gradually change from the rich velvety- 

 black to brown, and the spots from pure white to rufous ; the bifurcations 

 become less pronounced and cease on the lower-back where the spots 

 become narrow terminal bars ; lower-back and rump brown with narrow 

 rufoue fringes ; upper tail-coverts slaty-bro\ni, bifurcated and tipped narrowly 



