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Turtur erythrophrys et Levaillantii, Schl. Mus. P.-B., 

 Columbae, p. 121. 



Turtur semitorquatus , F. & Hartl. Vög. 0. Afr. p. 541; — 

 Bog. Orn. d'Ang. p. 383; — Shelley, Ibis 1883, p. 303. 



Hab. The whole African continent south of about 41° 

 N. lat. (Shelley). 



Collected in the Grand Cape Mount Country. 



This species of Turtur, the only one obtained in Libe- 

 ria, is plentiful wherever open country exists, especially 

 in grass fields , intermixed with bosquets , on cultivated 

 land, especially near the water-side. Its food consists ge- 

 nerally of grass seeds. Its nest is built on trunks or 

 branches in brushwood beside or even in swamps , about 

 4' above the ground or the water. It consists, like all 

 Dove's nests, of a few losely arranged twigs, just close 

 enough to prevent the eggs from dropping through and, 

 for the size of the bird, rather small. The eggs, two in 

 number, are pure white and measure from 2,0, to 3,2cm. 

 in length and from 2,2 to 2,3 cm. in width. They were 

 collected in December. 



Iris brick-red, naked space round the eye and the feet 

 carmineous, bill black. 



P eristera puella. 



Peristera puella, Schl. Bijdr. tot de Dierk. 1848, p. 17, 

 pi. 5; — Hartl. Orn. W. Afr., pp. 198 & 275; — Cass. 

 Proc. Ac. Nat. Sc. Philad. 1859, p. 143. 



Chalcopelia puella, Shelley, Ibis 1883, p. 321. 



Hab. West Africa, from Liberia to the Gaboon. 



Collected at Bavia and Sofore Place. 



This beautiful Dove, hitherto only recorded from the 

 Gold Coast and the Gaboon is by no means common in 

 Liberia, where it lives very quietly on the ground in dense 

 brushwood. In the high forest it was never found. Two 

 specimens only were collected. The male was caught in a 



iNotes from the Leyden IMusuura, "Vol. "VII. 



