Species SURATENSIS. 
This species, and the Burmese form ftigrina, have been placed by 
Sharpe in a different genus—Spilopelia, but I cannot see that there are 
any differences sufficiently pronounced to make it either necessary or 
convenient to divide our Indian Doves into different genera, and I 
therefore retain them under the name Streptopelia together with those 
Turtle-Doves in which the male and female are similarly plumaged. 
Key to the Subspecies. 
A. Back distinctly and boldly spotted with pale rufous. ... S.s. suratensis. 
B. Back spotted very indistinctly or not at all oe .. S. 8. tigrina. 
Well-marked specimens of these two subspecies are very easily 
discriminated, and even where the two meet the area over which the 
intermediate form prevails is very small, and in nearly all cases birds 
can be assigned to one or the other of the two. 
