(43) STREPTOPELIA CAMBAYENSIS (Gm.). 



THE LITTLE BROWN DOVE. 



(Plate 22.) 



Cambayan Turtle Lath., Syn., II 2, p. 652, no. 47 (1783). 



Columba cambayensis Gm., Syst. Nat., I 2, p. 779, no. 49 (1788) ; Lath., Ind. 

 Orn., II p. 609. 



Turtur senegalensis Blyth, J.A.S.B., XIV p. 873 (part) (1845) ; id.. Cat. 

 B.M.A.S.B., p. 237; Jerdon, B.I., III p. 479; Blanf., E. Persia, II 

 p. 276 ; Davidson and Wen., Str. Feath., VII p. 86 ; Hume, ib., VIH 

 pp. 66, 110, and 463; Vidal, ib., IX p. 74; Barnes, ib., pp. 219 and 

 408 ; Butler, ib., p. 420 ; Reid, ib., X p. 60 ; Davidson, ib., p. 320 ; 

 Dav., ib., p. 408 ; Barnes, B. Bom., p. 291 ; Oates, in Hume's Nests 

 and Eggs, 2nd ed., II p. 351; Sharpe, Yarkand Misc. Av., p. 118; 

 Barnes, J.B.N.H.S., V p. 331. 



Turtur cambayensis Bp., Con. Av., II p. 62 ; Jerdon, B.I., HI p. 478 ; 

 Stoliczka, J.A.S.B., XXXVH pt. 2 p. 66 ; id. ib., XLI pt. 2, p. 248 ; 

 Hume, Str. Feath., I p. 218 ; Adam, ib., p. 390 ; Butler, ib., IV p. 3 ; 

 Fau-bank, ib., p. 262 ; id. ib., V p. 408 ; Ball, ib., VII p. 224 ; Sal- 

 vadori, Cat. B.M., XXI p. 45 ; Blanf., Avi. Brit. L, FV p. 45 ; Marshall, 

 J.B.N.H.S., XV p. 352 ; Bourdillon, ib., XVI p. 3 ; Fulton, ib., p. 60 ; 

 Osmaston, ib., XVII p. 489; Ward, ib., p. 943; Perreau, ib., XIX 

 p. 919; Fenton, ib., XX p. 221; Wliitehead, ib., p. 967; Moss-King, 

 ib., XXI p. 100 ; Whitehead, ib., p. 168 ; D'Abreu, ib., p. 1167 ; Dewar, 

 Birds of the Plains, p. 125; Aitken, Com. B. Bom., p. 151. 



Stigmatopelia cambayensis Sharpe, Hand-List, I p. 80 ; Oates, Cat. Eggs 

 B.M., I p. 100. 



Vernacular Names. Chota fakhta, Perki, Tortra fakhta, Panduk, 

 Hin. ; Ghitti bella guwa, Sowata guwa, Tel. ; Touta-pora, Tamil. 



Description. — Adult male. Whole head and neck a beautiful lilac- 

 pink, darkest on the crown and fore-head, and palest on chin and throat ; 

 a patch of black feathers on either side of the neck, meeting in a narrow 

 gorget below the throat, each feather bifurcate and broadly tipped with bright 

 rufous ; back, scapulars with lesser and median coverts adjoining them, 

 innermost secondaries, rump, upper tail-coverts, and central rectrices pale 

 earthy-brown, sometimes slightly rufous ; the two pair of feathers next the 

 central rectrices greyish-brown with small wliite tips, the remaining pairs 

 black at the base and white on the terminal half, the white also extending 

 on the outermost pair down the outer web ; remaining wing-coverts french- 

 grey, the greater edged slightly paler ; edge of wing and winglet blackish- 

 brown ; primaries brown, three or four of the outer ones edged pale ; outer 

 secondaries dark slaty-brown, a fine narrow bro^^'n edge to some of them; 

 breast, shading from the chestnut of the collar to a vinous-pink, and from 



