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vinaceous spot; in some specimens scarcely a spotj but with this colour 

 edging tlie feathers ; edge of the wing, and the lower series of wing- 

 coverts near it, greyish white, with faint dark shaft-stripes ; primaries 

 and secondaries dusky brown, the first three qnills, and some of the 

 secondaries, edged with pale or greyish white ; primary coverts dark 

 brown ; tail with the central feathers brown, the outermost black at 

 the base, and tipped white for the terminal half, and the others with 

 the white tips decreasing in extent; bill blackish ; irides hazel, sur- 

 rounded by a reddish sclerotic membrane; legs reddish. 



Length. — 12 inches, wing 5'5 to 5'75, tail 5"5, graduated. 



Hub. — Throughout India nearly, to Ceylon and the Himalayas. 

 Replaces the last on the Malabar Coast and in Lower Bengal. Jerdon 

 says it is rare in the bare Caruatic land, the Deccan and N. W. 

 Provinces. Uncommon in Upper Sind, but less so in Lower Sind, 

 Breeds in April and May. It occurs, but less abundantly, inRajputana 

 and N. Guzerat. 



Turtnr risoria, Linn.; Fl. En. 244; Tem. Pig. t. 44; Grai/, 

 Handlid, No. 9328; Jerd. B.lnd.m.4Sl; Str. F. i. 218; vii. 297; 

 Blf. East. Persia, p. 270; Murray, Lldhk, ZooL, cj'C, Sind, p. 194.— 

 The Common Eing Dove. 



Head pale greyisk brown, with a vinous tinge; the forehead albescent; 

 nape and neck pale vinaceous ; collar black, a narrow line of white 

 before and behind it; back, scapulars and innermost tertiaries grey 

 brown, as also are the rump and upper tail-coverts ; primaries and their 

 coverts dusky brown ; the primaries margined narrowly witk "whitish, 

 and their coverts tinged with greyish ; edge of the wing, lower series 

 of the median coverts and greater series also pale grey ; under wing- 

 coverts g-reyish white ; cliin and throat albescent ; breast and upper 

 abdomen, also the sides of the neck and breast pale vinaceous ; flanks, 

 lower abdomen, vent, thigk and under tail-coverts ashy grey, the latter 

 with whitish tips ; tail wath the centi^al feathers like the back ; outer- 

 most feather on each side narrowly margined with greyish white on 

 their outer web, with a broad black baud about the middle, greyish at 

 base, and broadly terminated with white, which on the others increase in 

 extent; bill black; ii-ides crimson; orbital skin whitish; legs pinkish. 



Length. — 12 to 13 inches, wing G-5, tail 5, bill at front O'Sl. 



Hah. — India generally, except the more moist regions, as the Malabar 

 Coast ; abundant in Sind, Punjab, N. W. Provinces, Gudh, Bengal, 

 Eajputana, Kutch, Guzerat, Concan, Deccan, Central and South India, 

 also Beloochistan and Southern Afghanistan. 



Turtur humilis, Tem. PL Col. 258, -259; I^nip. Pig. t. 7; Sir, 

 F.\. 218; iv. 292; Jerd. B. Lnd. iii. p. 482; Murray, Hdhh., Zool, 

 ^x., Sind, -p. 194. Turtur tranquebaricus, Plerm. Ohs. Zool. p. 200; 

 (ex tranquebaria, 1804). — The Red Turtle Dove. 



Male. — Head and nape ashy grey, also the lores and sides of the 

 face slightly paler on the forehead ; collar black, set off bj^ whitish 

 before and behind it; back, scapulars and wing-coverts brick red;^ 



