(38) STREPTOPELIA TURTUR MEENA (Sykes). 
THE INDIAN RUFOUS TURTLE-DOVE or SYKES’S TURTLE-DOVE. 
(PLatE 20.) 
Columba orientalis Lath., Ind. Orn., IL p. 606 (1790). 
Columba meena 2 Sykes, P.Z.S. 1832, p. 149 (Dukhan). 
Columba agricola Tickell, J.A.S.B., II p. 581 (1833). 
Columba gelastis Temm., Pl. Col., pl. 550 (1835). 
Turtur meena Gray, Gen. B., IL p. 472; Blyth, J.A.S.B., XIV p. 875; Jerdon, 
B.L, III p. 476; Godw.-Aus., J.A.S.B., XXXIX pt. 2, p. 272; Hume, 
Lah. to Yark., p. 277; id., Nests and Eggs, p. 501; id., Str. Feath., 
II p. 163; Blyth and Wald., B. Burma, p. 146; Fairbank, Str. Feath., 
IV p. 262; Anders., Yun-nan Exp., Aves, p. 665; Hume and Dav., 
Str. Feath., VI p. 420; Davidson and Wend., ib., VII p. 86; Ball, ib., 
p. 224; Cripps, ib., p. 296; Hume, ib., VIII p. 110; id., Cat. no. 793; 
Vidal, Str. Feath., IX p. 74; Butler, ib., p. 420; Oates, ib., X p. 235; 
id., B. Burma, II p. 292; Barnes, B. Bom., p. 290; Hume, Str. Feath., 
XI p. 298; Oates, in Hume’s Nests and Eggs, 2nd ed., II p. 350 ; Barnes, 
J.B.N.H.S., V p. 330 ; Stuart Baker, ib., X p. 360; Inglis, ib., XI p. 474. 
Turtur orientalis Blyth, J.A.S.B., XIV p. 876; Anders., Yun-nan Exp., 
Aves, p. 666; Hutton, J.A.S.B., XVII pt. 2, p. 13; Salvadori, Cat. B.M., 
XXI p. 403 (part); Blanf., Avi. Brit. 1, IV p. 40 (part); Sharpe, 
Hand-List, I p. 78 (part) ; Oates, Cat. Eggs B.M., I p. 95 (part) ; Inglis, 
J.B.N.H.S., XVI p. 73; Macdonald, ib., XVII p. 496; Stuart Baker, 
ib., p. 971; Mears, ib., XVIII p. 86; Harington, ib., XIX p. 309; id. ib., 
XX p. 1010; D’Abreu, ib., XXI p. 1167; Hopwood, ib., p. 1214. 
Columba rupicola Adams, Str. Feath., I p. 390. 
Vernacular Names. Kala fakhia, Basko fakhta, Hin.; Sam ghughu, 
Ram ghughu, Beng.; Yedrupoda guwa, Tel.; Daotu gajao, Cachari; Puho, 
Assamese ; Inruiku, Naga.; Vohgura, Kuki. 
Description.—Adult male. Whole head and neck reddish-vinous, 
paler on the sides and palest on the chin ; the crown is often tinged with bluish- 
grey which sometimes extends to the fore-head; a patch of black feathers 
on either side of the neck, each feather edged with silvery-grey, this colour 
disposed in regular lines; upper-back brown, the feathers often edged with 
rufous and sometimes almost wholly of this colour and tinged with vinous ; 
lower-back and rump slaty-grey with dark centres, sometimes concealed 
sometimes showing distinctly ; upper tail-coverts and central rectrices dark 
brown, faintly tipped paler ; outer rectrices almost black, broadly tipped with 
pale grey, and with the outermost greyish-white on the outer-web also. 
Scapulars, inner wing-coverts and inner secondaries dark brown with broad 
ferruginous borders; outer median wing-coverts and greater coverts dark 
