CEYLON PIGEONS AND GAME BIRDS. 363 
The chin and centre of the throat are whitish, the rest of the 
throat and the breast vinous ; the centre of the abdomen and 
lower tail coverts whitish, the tail coverts often spotted at 
the tips with black. 
Young birds have no black and white collar, are duller in 
colour, and less spotted on the back and wing coverts. 
Bill dark lead-colour ; iris hazel with a reddish outer ring ; 
legs and feet lake-red. 
Length 11°25; wing 5; tail 5°25; tarsus °85; bill from 
gape *7. Ceylon birds are smaller than Indian. 
Distribution—Abundant all over the Island up to about 
3,000 feet ; found all over India ; replaced in Burma by T'urtur 
(streptopelia) tigrinus, which is considered by Stuart Baker to 
be only a sub-species of the present form. 
Habits —A ground feeder, living on paddy, other grains, 
and grass seeds. It may be seen in swarms about native 
threshing-floors and newly-reaped paddy fields or in chenas 
searching for the grains which have been dropped. The nests 
may be taken at almost any time of year. They are small 
slight saucers of twigs, usually placed in thorny bushes or 
low trees about 5 to 10 feet above the ground. Generally 
two eggs are laid, but sometimes only one. They are broad 
ovals of pure white, measuring about 1°02 by °80. 
TURTUR RISORIUS (Blanford, Vol. IV., p. 46 ; 
Legge, p. 702). 
The Indian Ring Dove. 
Description —Head and neck gray with a lilac tinge, the 
forehead paler and the chin almost white. On the sides and 
back of the lower neck runs a collar of black bordered above 
and below with a narrow edge of white. The upper plumage 
from this collar to the tail, including the wing coverts, is 
brownish-gray. The outer wing coverts and secondary quills 
are largely tinged with bluish-gray ; primary coverts and quills 
dark brown. The middle tail feathers are brownish-gray, 
the outer feathers grayer with whitish tips, the white increasing 
towards the sides. Breast lilac-gray passing through dove- 
gray on the abdomen and flanks into slate-gray on the lower 
tail coverts. Wing lining very light gray. 
