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one, and not a variety, I doubt if its real habitat will be 

 found iu Egypt. 



211. TuRTUR ALBiVENTRis, G. R. Gray. Wliitc'bellied Turtle- 

 dove. 



According to Von Heuglin, this Dove is met with singly 

 in Egypt and Nubia. It is the T. risorius of his ' Syste- 

 matische Uebersicht ' (p. 49). 



Head, neck, and crop creamy pink, with a broad black 

 collar on the back of the neck, narrowly bordered with 

 white; back and scapulars brown, shaded with grey on the 

 rump ; tail, two centre feathers brownish slate-colour, the 

 remainder greyer, with white ends, increasing in width 

 towards the exterior feathers; wings brown, shaded with 

 grey towards the shoulders ; under surface of the body white, 

 shaded with pink on the chest and with grey on the flanks ; 

 beak, legs, and irides the same as in T. auritus. 



Entu'e length 9 inches ; culmeu 0"7 ; wing, carpus to tip, 

 5"9; tarsus 0"8. 



212. TuRTUE 8ENEGALENSIS (Linn.). Egyptian Turtledove. 



This Tiu:tledove, the only species which remains in 

 Egypt the vphole year, is very abundant and evenly distri- 

 buted throughout the country. It is very sociable and tame, 

 and not so fast on the wing as the other species. In every 

 palm-grove pairs- may be seen sitting together on the long 

 leaf-stems, and in the villages they may be found strutting 

 along the mud walls which form the native houses. They 



