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here by hundreds, and afford our Durban sportsmen capital 

 sport." 



My description is taken from a specimen collected for me 

 by Mr, George at Berg Mountain, near Durban. 



10. Palumbus palumbus. 



Columba palumbus, Linn. S. N. i, 1766, p. 282; Temm. & 

 Knip, Pig. i. 1808-1838, p. 3, pi. 2 (good) ; Gould, B. Eur. 

 iv. 1837, pi. 243 (good) ; Vernon Harcourt, P. Z. S. 1851, 

 p. 142, Madeira; Salvin, Ibis, 1859, p. 318, E. Atlas ; Tris- 

 tram, Ibis, 1860, p. 152, Algeria; id. P. Z. S. 1864, p. 448, 

 Palestine; Godman, Ibis, 1866, pp. 99, 107, Azores; Drake, 

 Ibis, 1867, p. 408, E. Morocco; Tristram, Ibis, 1868, p. 209, 

 Palestine; Taczanowski, J, f. O. 1870, p. 51, Constantine; 

 Gurney, Ibis, 1871, p. 294, Algeria; Dresser, B. Eur. vii. 

 1878, p. 3, pi. 456; Danford, Ibis, 1878, p. 27, Asia Minor. 

 Columbajorquata, Leach, Syst. Cat. M. & B, Brit. Mus. 

 1816, p. 26. 



Columba pinetorum, C. L. Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. 1831, 

 p. 488. 



Palumbus torquatus, Bp. Cat. Parzud. 1856, p. 9 ; id. Icon. 

 Pig. 1857, pi. 57 (good) ; Gould, B. Gt. Brit. iv. 1873, pi. 1 

 (good). 



Palumbus excelsus, Bp. Compt. Rend, xliii. 1856, pp. 836, 

 948. 



Columba trocaz, Morel (nee Hein.), Hist. Nat. Agor. 1860, 

 p. 84. 



Entire head and upper throat leaden grey ; back and sides 

 of the neck metallic green, with a large white patch on each 

 side of the hind neck ; upper back, the greater portion of the 

 wing-coverts, and the secondaries brown, slightly glossed 

 with metallic green and lilac towards the base of the neck ; 

 the wing-coverts gradually pass into pearl-grey towards the 

 outer ones, which are very broadly edged on their outer 

 webs with white, forming a large white patch on the wing ; 

 bastard wing and primary-coverts brownish black, remainder 

 of the quills dark brown, with white edges to their outer 

 webs ; remainder of the back, upper tail-coverts, and tail 



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