(41) STREPTOPELIA SURATENSIS SURATENSIS (Gm.). 
THE SPOTTED DOVE. 
Columba suratensis Gm., Syst. Nat., I p. 778, no. 48 (1788); Lath., Ind. Orn., 
II p. 609. 
Columba tigrina (part) Temm.; Pig. et Gall., I pp. 317, 481 (1813). 
Turtur vitticollis Hodg., in Gray’s Zool. Misc., p. 85 (descr. nulla). 
Turtur suratensis Strick., P.Z.S. 1842, p. 168; Blyth, J.A.S.B., XIV, 2nd pt., 
p. 874 (part); id., Cat. M.A.S.B., p. 236; id., J.A.S.B., XXIV p. 263; 
Jerdon, B.I., III p. 479; Stoliczka, J.A.S.B., XXXVII pt. 2 p. 67; 
Godw-Aus., ib, XXXIX pt. 2 p. 112; Hume, Str. Feath., I p. 218; 
Adam, ib., p. 390; Ball, ib., II p. 425; Hume and Butler, ib., IV p. 3; 
id., Nests and Eggs, p. 504; Fairbank, Str. Feath., IV p. 262; id. ib., 
V p. 409; Hume and Bourd., ib., VII p. 39; Dav. and Wend., ib., 
p- 86; Ball, ib., p. 224; Cripps, ib., p. 297; Hume, ib., VIII p. 110; 
id., Cat. no. 795; Scully, Str. Feath., VIII p. 341; Vidal, ib., IX p. 75; 
Butler, ib., p. 420; Legge, B. Cey., p. 705 ; Reid, Str. Feath., X p. 60; 
Dav., ib., p. 408; Barnes, B. Bom., p. 291; Hume, Str. Feath., XI 
p- 298; Oates, in Hume’s Nests and Eggs, 2nd ed., II p. 353; Sharpe, 
Yarkand Misc. Av., p. 119; Salvadori, Cat. B.M., XXI p. 444; Blanf., 
Avi. Brit. I., IV p. 43; Barnes, J.B.N.H.S., V p. 331; Butler, ib., X 
p- 310; Inglis, ib., XI p. 474; id. ib, XIV p. 562; Bourdillon, XVI 
p. 3; Fulton, ib., p. 60; Ward, ib., XVII p. 943; Stuart Baker, ib., 
p. 971; Magrath, ib., XIX p. 155; Perreau, ib., p. 919; Moss-King, 
ib., XXI p. 99; Whitehead, ib., p. 167; D’Abreu, ib., p. 1167; Dewar, 
Birds of the Plains, p. 124. 
Spilopelia suratensis Sharpe, Hand-List, I p. 80; Oates, Cat. Eggs B.M., 
IE jay EE) 
Vernacular Names. Chitroka fakhta, Chitta fakhta, Perki, Chitla, Kangs- 
kiri, Panduk, Hin.; Chaval ghughu, Telia ghughu, Bengali; Kawala, Mahr. ; 
Bode, Gond. ; Powarit, Marie Gond.; Poda-bella-guwa, Tel. ; Puli-pora, Tamil ; 
Mani-praa, Tam. Ceylon; Kobeya, Allikobeya, Cing.; Ku-po-hu, Assamese ; 
Kodaya punduk, Behari; Daotu, Cachari; Inruigu, Naga.; Vohkurup, Kuki. 
Description-—Adult male. Upper portion of head and nape vinous, — 
more grey on the fore-head and often also above the eye; a small spot or 
streak of black between the eye and base of bill; a demi-collar on back and 
sides of neck of black feathers, bifurcate and with two white spots at the 
tip ; on the upper-back the feathers gradually change from the rich velvety- 
black to brown, and the spots from pure white to rufous; the bifurcations 
become less pronounced and cease on the lower-back where the spots 
become narrow terminal bars; lower-back and rump brown with narrow 
tufous fringes ; upper tail-coverts slaty-brown, bifurcated and tipped narrowly 
