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251. TuRTUR SEMiTORQUATus. Red-cyed Dove. 

 Chindao : *' Igowara." Singuni : '^Ikopoya " or "Ijuba/^ 



the latter name, however, applying to Doves in general. 



Rh., P. On the Kurumadzi in August and November these 

 large Doves were always to be seen perched conspicuously 

 on tree-tops in the bush surrounding Kafir clearings, feeding 

 in the fields, or, in the early morning, congregated in parties 

 of seven or eight on the banks of the streams. At Maruma 

 they were very common in September in flocks of from 

 twenty to forty individuals, feeding about the homestead, 

 in the pig-styes, &c., like tame pigeons. In the lowlands 

 from November to January I met with them frequently 

 from Mount Singuno to Chimbuya, but thence to the 

 Umtefu Turtur damarensis appeared to be equally common. 

 Throughout the Madanda forests and in the neighbourhood 

 of Chibabava they were constantly to be seen and heard, and 

 I again met with them in considerable numbers drinking 

 at some water-holes in very dry country between Chironda 

 and Boka. 



A male in my collection measured 13'25 inches in the 

 flesh, a female 11*75 inches. In both the bill was black, the 

 base with a whitish bloom ; the bare skin round the eye was 

 grey, its wattled portions and the eyelids dull crimson, and 

 the irides were coppery pink. The feet were crimson in 

 the male, purple in the female. 



252. Turtur damarensis. Damara Turtle-Dove. 

 Chindao: " Idekururu ^^ (in imitation of its note). Sin- 

 guni : " Igugulwana'' or " Ijuba/^ 



Rh., P, I heard one of these Doves calling repeatedly in 

 the open bush on the Umpudzi River (Umtali District) in 

 April 1907, in the dead of night. A curious courtship, 

 through the wires, took place during July and August between 

 a wild bird and one that had been in my aviary for many 

 months. In the low veld I noted this Dove in some numbers 

 between Chimbuya and the Umtefu, and again at Bimba and 

 Inyamita. Two males in my collection measured 10'4 

 and 10*5 inches in the flesh, respectively, and a female 



