(42) STREPTOPELIA SURATENSIS TIGRINA (Temm.). 



THE MALAY OR BURMESE SPOTTED DOVE. 

 (Plate 21.) 



Columba tigrina Temm. and Knip, Pig., I pi. 43 (1808-11). 



Columhina inornata Gray, List Gallinae B.M., p. 13 (1844). 



Turtur chinemis Gray, Gen. B., II p. 472 (1844). 



Columba chinensis Thienem, Fortplf., p. 59. 



Turtur suratensis Blyth, J.A.S.B., XV p. 372; Stuart Baker, J.B.N.H.S., 

 X p. 360 ; Venning, ib., XXI p. 631. 



Turtur tigrinus Blyth, J.A.S.B., XXIV p. 480 ; id. ib., XXXIX pt. 2, p. 332 

 Ball, Str. Feath., I p. 80 ; Hume, Nests and Eggs, p. 506 ; id., Str 

 Feath., II p. 269 ; Blyth. and Wald., B. Burma, p. 145 ; Hume, Str, 

 Feath., Ill p. 164 ; Armstrong, ib., IV p. 337 ; Gates, ib., V p. 164 

 Hume and Dav., ib., VI p. 422 ; Anderson, Yun-nan Exp., Av., p. 665 

 Hume, Str. Feath., VIII p. 110 ; id.. Cat. no. 795, bis ; Bingh., Str, 

 Feath., IX p. 194 ; Hume and Inglis, ib., p. 258 ; Gates, ib., X p. 235 

 id., B. Burma, II p. 290 ; Hume, Str. Feath., XI p. 299 ; Gates, in 

 Hume's Nests and Eggs, 2nd ed., II p. 356 ; Salvadori, Cat. B.M., XXI 

 p. 440 : Blanf ., Avi. Brit. I., IV p. 44 ; Harington, B. Burma, p. 68 ; 

 Macdonald, J.B.N.H.S., XVII p. 496 ; H. R. Baker, ib., p. 760 ; Mears, 

 ib., XVIII p. 86 ; Harington, ib., XIX pp. 306 and 365 ; Allan, ib., 

 p. 523; Harington, ib., XX p. 1010; Hopwood, ib., XXI p. 1214; 

 Robinson, J.F.M.S. 1905, p. 57. 



Turtur tigrina Hume, Str. Feath., I p. 461. 



Spilopelia tigrina Sundev., Meth. Nat. Av. Disp. Tent., p. 100 (1872) ; Sharpe, 

 Hand-List, I p. 80 ; Gates, Cat. Eggs B.M., I p. 99. 



Vernacular Names. Tekukor, Malayan ; Gyo, Gyo-le-byouk, Burmese ; 

 Daotu, Cachari ; Inruigu, Naga. ; Vohkurup, Kuki. 



Description. — Adult male. Similar to S. s. suratensis, but differing 

 in the following respects : The rufous spots on the upper-back are absent, 

 and those on the wing-coverts, scapulars, and innermost secondaries are 

 either wholly wanting or are only faintly shown ; the vinaceous spots on the 

 wing are absent, though the outer webs of the median coverts are more or 

 less a pale vinous-brown. The grey greater coverts of surateiisis, are replaced 

 by pale vinous-brown with merely grey edges in tigrtTia. 



Below the chin is less albescent and often almost concolorous with the 

 breast ; there is less albescent on the abdomen, which with the under tail- 

 coverts is often a fulvous-vinous with no white at all. 



Measurements. On an average the Burmese Spotted Dove is decidedly 

 bigger than the Indian bird. Total length about 13 in. ( = 330 mm.), wing 

 5.40 in. ( = 137.1 mm.) to 6.05 in. ( = 155.1 mm.), and with an average of 



