(42) STREPTOPELIA SURATENSIS TIGRINA (Temm.). 
THE MALAY OR BURMESE SPOTTED DOVE. 
(PLatE 21.) 
Columba tigrina Temm. and Knip, Pig., I pl. 43 (1808-11). 
Columbina inornata Gray, List Gallinae B.M., p. 13 (1844). 
Turtur chinensis Gray, Gen. B., II p. 472 (1844). 
Columba chinensis Thienem, Fortplf., p. 59. 
Turtur suratensis Blyth, J.A.8S.B., XV p. 372; Stuart Baker, J.B.N.H.S., 
X p. 360; Venning, ib., XXI p. 631. 
Turtur tigrinus Blyth, J.A.S.B., XXIV p. 480; id. ib., XX XIX pt. 2, p. 332 ; 
Ball, Str. Feath., I p. 80; Hume, Nests and Eggs, p. 506; id., Str. 
Feath., II p. 269; Blyth and Wald., B. Burma, p. 145; Hume, Stf. 
Feath., ITI p. 164; Armstrong, ib., IV p. 337; Oates, ib., V p. 164; 
Hume and Dav., ib., VI p. 422; Anderson, Yun-nan Exp., Av., p. 665 ; 
Hume, Str. Feath., VIII p. 110; id., Cat. no. 795, bis; Bingh., Str. 
Feath., [X p. 194; Hume and Inglis, ib., p. 258; Oates, ib., X p. 235; 
id., B. Burma, II p. 290; Hume, Str. Feath., XI p. 299; Oates, in 
Hume’s Nests and Eggs, 2nd ed., II p. 356; Salvadori, Cat. B.M., XXI 
p- 440: Blanf., Avi. Brit. L, IV p.44; Harington, B. Burma, p. 68; 
Macdonald, J.B.N.H.S., XVII p. 496; H. R. Baker, ib., p. 760; Mears, 
ib., XVIII p. 86; Harington, ib., XIX pp. 306 and 365; Allan, ib., 
p. 523; Harington, ib., XX p. 1010; Hopwood, ib., XXI p. 1214; 
Robinson, J.F.M.S. 1905, p. 57. 
Turtur tigrina Hume, Str. Feath., I p. 461. 
Spilopelia tigrina Sundev., Méth. Nat. Av. Disp. Tent., p. 100 (1872) ; Sharpe, 
Hand-List, I p. 80; Oates, Cat. Eggs B.M., I p. 99. 
Vernacular Names. T'ekukor, Malayan; Gyo, Gyo-lé-byouk, Burmese ; 
Daotu, Cachari; Inruigu, Naga.; Vohkurup, Kuki. 
Description.—Adult male. Similar to S. s. suratensis, but differing 
in the following respects: The rufous spots on the upper-back are absent, 
and those on the wing-coverts, scapulars, and innermost secondaries are 
either wholly wanting or are only faintly shown; the vinaceous spots on the 
wing are absent, though the outer webs of the median coverts are more or 
less a pale vinous-brown. The grey greater coverts of suratensis, are replaced 
by pale vinous-brown with merely grey edges in tigrina. 
Below the chin is less albescent and often almost concolorous with the 
breast ; there is less albescent on the abdomen, which with the under tail- 
coverts is often a fulvous-vinous with no white at all. 
Measurements. On an average the Burmese Spotted Dove is decidedly 
bigger than the Indian bird. Total length about 13 in. ( = 330 mm.), wing 
5.40 in. (= 137.1 mm.) to 6.05 in. (= 155.1 mm.), and with an average of 
