44r Mr. C. H. B. Grant on a Collection of 



The male is in good dress and but slightly worn. The 

 young bird is moulting from the young to the adult 

 dress. 



Total length in flesh: ad. 10^ inches; juv. ]0^ inches. 

 Wing: ad. 133 mm.; juv. 130 mm. 



\^Ad. Irides brown, eyelids red ; bill black ; legs and toes 

 red. Juv. Legs and toes claret.] 



In naming this bird I have been carefully through the 

 whole series in the British ]\Iuseum, and I fail to see more 

 than two races on the mainland of Africa and one from the 

 Island of Socotra, three in all as follows : — 



Stigmatopelia senegalensis senegalensis Litin. 



Range. West, East, and South Africa. 



Wing-measurements as follows : — Abyssinia, J" 141-135 

 mm. Somaliland, c? 137 mm. East Africa, c^ 140-134 mm.; 

 ? 134-131 mm. Congo, S 133 mm. Tanganyika, J 134 

 mm. Nyasaland, S 137-131 mm. West Africa, (J 144- 

 131 mm.; ? 135-132 mm. (two specimens unsexed from 

 Senegal 138 and 136 mm. respectively). South Africa, 

 ^ 138-135 ram.; ? 134-132 mm. (one $ from Woodbush, 

 N.E. Transvaal, 139 mm.). 



Arabian birds also appear to belong to this lace. S > wing 

 134-131 mm. 



I cannot recognise T. s. aguatorialis Erl. (Orn. Mouatsb. 

 xii. 1904, p. 98 : Menaballa, Route Harar, Adis-Abeba, and 

 Harar) ; it therefore becomes a synonym. 



Stigmatopelia senegalensis ^gyptiaca Lath. 



Columba (sgyptiaca Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. 1790. p. 607, no. 49 : 

 Egypt. 



I have gone into the name given by Forskal to this race 

 (^Columba testaceo-incarnata, Descript. Animal. Av. 1775, p. 5 : 

 Egypt), and find that on p. vi. he gives the name of incarnata 

 and on p. 5 the name of testaceo-incarnata ; T am of opinion, 

 therefore, that although Sherborn has included the name in 

 his Index Animalium, 1902, Forskal's name is not binomially 

 correct and cannot stand. 



Size large, and dark iii colour. 



