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20. TURTUR COMMUNIS. 



Columba turtur, Linn. S. N. i. 1766, p. 284; Temni. & 

 Knip, Pig. i. p. 89, pi. 42 (fair) ; Rupp. N. W. 1835-1840, 

 p. Q7; Gould, B. Eur. iv. 1837, pi. 246 (good) ; Vernon Har- 

 court, P. Z. S. 1851, p. 146, Madeira ; Buvry, J. f. O. 1857, 

 pp. Q7, 195, Algeria; Bolle, torn. cit. p. 266, Canaries. 



Perisiera turtur, Boie, Isis, 1828, p. 327. 



? Peristera tenera, C. L. Brelim, Vog. Deutschl. 1831, 

 p. 494. 



Turtur communis, Selby, Nat. Libr. v. 1835, p. 171 ; B.O.U. 

 List Brit. B. 1883, p. 139. 



Turtur vulgaris, Eyton, Cat. Brit. B. 1836, p. 32; Drake, 

 Ibis^l869, p. 153, Morocco ; Dresser, B. Eur. vii. 1876, p. 39, 

 pi. 462 (good) ; Dauford, Ibis, 1878, p. 27, Asia Minor. 



Turtur auritus, Riipp. Syst. Uebers. 1845, p. 100; Tris- 

 tram, Ibis, 1859, p. 35, Palestine; Salvin, Ibis, 1859, p. 318, 

 E. Atlas; Hartl. J. f. O. 1861, p. 266, '^Gaboon 'M; Hartm. 

 J. f. O. 1863, pp. 303, 308, 315 ; Tristram, P. Z. S. 1864, 

 p. 448, Palestine; Allen, Ibis, 1864, p. 239, Egypt; Tris- 

 tram, Ibis, 1865, p. 77, 1868, p. 210, Palestine ; Shelley, Ibis, 

 1871, p. 142, Egypt ; Gurney, torn. cit. pp. 295, 300, Algeria ; 

 Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. 1871-1875, p. 839, App. p. 169; 

 Shelley, B. Egypt, 1872, p. 214, pi. 10. fig. 1 ; Gould, B. 

 Gt. Brit. iv. 1873, pi. 4. 



Turtur migratorius, Sclat. Contr. Orn. 1852, p. 126, Mo- 

 kollo and Moses's Well. 



Turtur I'isorius, Tristram, Ibis, 1860, p. 69, Algeria. 



Upper half of the head and back of the neck grey, passing 

 into pale vinous pink on the sides of the head, throat, and 

 chest ; feathers on the sides of the neck black, with white 

 tips, often tinted with grey, forming a partial collar, com- 

 posed of oblique stripes of black and Avhite ; upper back 

 greyish brown, with the edges of the feathers partially washed 

 with fawn-colour ; lower back and upper tail-coverts grey, 

 partially washed with fawn-colour on the edges of some of 

 the feathers ; two centre tail-feathers slaty brown ; re- 

 mainder of the tail slaty black for about three quarters of 

 its length, with the end quarter and the entire outer webs of 



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