TURTUR CAPICOLA. 567 
550. Turtur pecrerens, Ff’. and H. White-bellied Turtle-Dove. 
With all the general characters of the foregoing species, this bird 
is distinguished by having the centre of the abdomen and vent white, 
the remainder of the abdomen and the under tail-coverts being pale 
grey, the latter broadly edged with white. 
This Turtle-Dove has been described since the publication of the 
first edition of the present work, and not much is known about it. 
Sir John Kirk obtained two specimens at Tete on the Zambesi 
River during the Livingstone Hxpedition, and Professor Barboza du 
Bocage states that Anchieta has forwarded two specimens to the 
Lisbon Museum; one from Dombe in the South of Benguela, and 
another from the River Coroca in Southern Mosamedes. Captain 
Shelley has also in his collection a pair obtained by Dr. Emin Bey 
on the Upper White Nile. 
551. Torrour caricoza, Sundev. Cape Turtle-Dove. 
Turtur semitorquatus, Layard, B. 8. Afr. p. 260. 
This species, according to Captain Shelley, may be known by the 
following characters. It has a narrow black band from the eye to 
the lores ; the under tail-coverts are white: the under wing-coverts 
leaden grey; and the under-surface of the quills is uniform dark 
brown. The only bird with which it can be confounded is 7. 
vinaceus, which is a West African bird ranging from Senegal to the 
Congo, but not occurring within the limits of the present work. 
The Cape Turtle-Dove is abundant all over the colony, breeding 
even in Cape Town. The nests are simply rude platforms of sticks, 
covered with a thin layer of fine roots, through which the eggs (two 
in number, oval, and pure white; axis, 13”; diameter, 11”) are, 
in most instances, plainly visible from below. They are laid in 
September. 
Mr. Rickard states that it is common near Port Elizabeth and 
East London, and Captain Trevelyan observes that it is plentiful 
near Kingwilliamstown. In Natal, according to Majors Butler and 
Feilden, and Captain Reid, it is common everywhere. They took 
fresh eggs in the Newcastle district on the 23rd of October, and at 
Richmond Road, near Pietermaritzburg, on the 7th of December. 
Mr. Ayres has found it tolerably common at Potchefstroom, and Mr. 
Barratt observed it in many places in the Free State and throughout 
the Transvaal. He mentions having received it from Marico, and he 
