(43) STREPTOPELIA CAMBAYENSIS (Gm.). 
THE LITTLE BROWN DOVE. 
(PLATE 22.) 
Cambayan Turtle Lath., Syn., II 2, p. 652, no. 47 (1783). 
Columba cambayensis Gm., Syst. Nat., I 2, p. 779, no. 49 (1788); Lath., Ind. 
Orn., II p. 609. 
Turtur senegalensis Blyth, J.A.S.B., XIV p. 873 (part) (1845); id., Cat. 
B.M.A.8.B., p. 237; Jerdon, B.I., IIL p. 479; Blanf., E. Persia, II 
p. 276; Davidson and Wen., Str. Feath., VII p. 86; Hume, ib., VIII 
pp. 66, 110, and 463; Vidal, ib., IX p. 74; Barnes, ib., pp. 219 and 
408; Butler, ib., p. 420; Reid, ib., X p. 60; Davidson, ib., p. 320; 
Dav., ib., p. 408; Barnes, B. Bom., p. 291; Oates, in Hume’s Nests 
and Eggs, 2nd ed., II p. 351; Sharpe, Yarkand Mise. Av., p. 118; 
Barnes, J.B.N.H.S., Vp. 331. 
Turtur cambayensis Bp., Con. Av., II p. 62; Jerdon, B.I., III p. 478; 
Stoliczka, J.AS.B., XXXVII pt. 2 p. 66; id. ib., XLI pt. an ae 
Hume, Str. Feath., I p. 218; Adam, ib., p. 390; Butler, ib., Vp 
Fairbank, ib., p. 262 ; id. ib., V p. 408 ; Ball, ‘ib., VII p. ‘224 ; Paar 
vadori, Cat. B.M,, XXI p. 45; Blanf., Avi. Brit. Tr, IV p. 45; Marshall, 
J.B.N.H.S., XV p. 352; Bourdillon, ib., XVI p. 3; Fulton, ib., p. 60; 
Osmaston, ib., XVII p. 489; Ward, ib., p. 943; Perreau, ib., XIX 
p. 919; Fenton, ib., XX p. 221; Whitehead, ib., p. 967; Moss-King, 
ib., XXI p. 100; Whitehead, ib., p. 168; D’Abreu, ib., p. 1167; Dewar, 
Birds of the Plains, p. 125; Aitken, Com. B. Bom., p. 151. 
Stigmatopelia cambayensis Sharpe, Hand-List, I p. 80; Oates, Cat. Eggs 
B.M., I p. 100. 
Vernacular Names. Chota fakhta, Perki, Tortra fakhta, Panduk, 
Hin.; Chittt bella guwa, Sowata guwa, Tel.; Touta-pora, Tamil. 
Description.—Aduli male. Whole head and neck a beautiful lilac- 
pink, darkest on the crown and fore-head, and palest on chin and throat ; 
a patch of black feathers on either side of the neck, meeting in a narrow 
gorget below the throat, each feather bifurcate and broadly tipped with bright 
rufous; back, scapulars with lesser and median coverts adjoining them, 
innermost secondaries, rump, upper tail-coverts, and central rectrices pale 
earthy-brown, sometimes slightly rufous; the two pair of feathers next the 
central rectrices greyish-brown with small white tips, the remaining pairs 
black at the base and white on the terminal half, the white also extending 
on the outermost pair down the outer web; remaining wing-coverts french- 
grey, the greater edged slightly paler; edge of wing and winglet blackish- 
brown; primaries brown, three or four of the outer ones edged pale; outer 
secondaries dark slaty-brown, a fine narrow brown edge to some of them; 
breast, shading from the chestnut of the collar to a vinous-pink, and from 
