32 COLUMBID/^. 



Sub-Family .—TURTURIN^.-^/.. 



Habits terrestrial and arboreal ; tail somewhat longj with pale tips to the 

 outer feathers ; neck usually adorned with a ring or spot. 



Sub-Family, TVRTURm M.—Bonap. 



Bill lengthened, slender, the base soft and tumid ; wings long; feet short; 

 feathers of the rump rather rigid. 



Gen. Turtur— ^SV/Z-y. 



Bill slender; wings long, 2nd and 3rd quills longest; tail moderate, 

 rounded or graduated ; tarsi scutellated in front, naked ; outer toe shorter 

 than the inner. 



44. Turtur pulchratUS, Hodgs., J. A. S. B. xiii. Turtur 

 rupicolus, apud Jerd., B. hid. ii. p. 476, No. 792 ; Hume and Dew., Sir. F. 

 vi. p. 421. — The Ashy Turtle Dove. 



Forehead pale isabelline ; top of head bluish ashy, nape with a vinous 

 tino-e ; upper back, cheeks, sides of the face and sides of the body, also the 

 upper breast, vinous ; chin and a small gular streak pale isabelline ; neck 

 patch black, each feather tipped with paler bluish white ; lo7ver back and rump 

 bluish ash ; also the upper tail coverts, which in some are edged with pale 

 rufous ; central tail feathers dusky black, the others black and tipped broadly 

 with (rreyish white, the outermost feather on each side white on the outer web 

 and at tip ; scapulars, tertiaries, lesser and median coverts dark brown, 

 maro-ined with rufous ; greater coverts dusky on the inner web and ashy on 

 outer; primaries and secondaries dusky brown ; darker on their outer web and 

 very narrowly edged with dirty white ; innermost secondaries edged and 

 tipped with rufous ; lower breast vinous, becoming albescent or ashy white on 

 the middle of the belly, and pure white on the vent and under tail coverts ; 

 flanks and under wing coverts bluish ash. Bill brown, vinous on the basal 

 half ; irides orange ; legs vinous red. 



Length.— ii, to U'S inches; tail 5-5 ; wing 8; tarsus i-i ; bill from 

 gape i*i. 



//■^^/;,_The Himalayas from Afghanistan to Sikkim at elevations of from 

 4,000 to 8,000 feet, also the Central Provinces, Central India, the N.-W. Pro- 

 vinces, and Nepaul. Breeds on the lower ranges of the Himalayas during May 

 and June. At Mussooree and Murree it is said to lay in May two pure white 

 eggs, which Hume adds are glossy and regular ovals, varying in length from 

 \'\ to 1-34, and in breadth from 0-85 to I. 



45. Turtur meena {Sykes\ Jerd., B. ind. ii. p. 476, No. 793 ; 



Htme, Nests and Eggs p. 501 ; id., Str. F. iii. p. 163 ; Bl. B. Burm. 

 p. 146; Hume and Dav., Str. F. vi. p. 420; Hume, Str. F. viii. p. iio, 



