300 Capt. G. E. Shelley on the 



the exterior feathers white ; scapulars, inner half of the 

 wing-coverts, and the innermost secondaries slaty black, with 

 broad fawn-coloured edges ; remainder of the wing-coverts 

 leaden grey ; the bastard wing and primary-coverts blackish 

 brown, slightly washed with grey ; quills blackish brown, 

 faintly washed with grey, and with very narrow pale edges ; 

 chest pale vinous pink, fading into white down the middle of 

 the breast; abdomen and under tail- coverts white; sides of 

 the body and under wing-coverts leaden grey ; under surface 

 of the quills ashy brown ; iris brownish red ; bill vinous- 

 shaded slate-colour; legs red. Total length 10" 10 inches, 

 culmen 0'7, wing 7, tail 5, tarsus 0-9. 



Hab. The Canaries, INIadeira, coasts of the Mediterranean 

 and Red Sea, and the Nile valley southward to 10° N. lat. 



This species is not, I believe, a native of any part of the 

 West- African subregion south of Senegal; and I think there 

 must be an error in recording this species from the Gaboon 

 on the authority of M. A. Lecompte (J. f. O. 1861, p. 266). 



21. TURTUR ISABELLINUS. 



? Peristera rufodo7\^alis , C. L. Brehm, Vogelf. 1855, p. 257. 



Turtur isabell'mus, Bp. Compt. Rend, xliii. 1856, pp. 942, 

 949; id. Icon. Pig. 1857, ph 102 (very bad) ; Heugl. Orn. 

 N.O.-Afr. 1875, App. p. 170; Dresser, B. Eur. vii. 1877, 

 p. 49, pi. 464. fig. 1 ; Taylor, Ibis, 1878, p. 372. 



Turtur auritus, Antin. Cat. 1864, p. 91, Aboo-Simbel; 

 Antin. & Salvad. Viagg. Bogos, 1873, p. 130, Assus; Taylor, 

 Ibis, 1867, p. 67, Egypt. 



Turtur sharpei, Shelley, Ibis, 1870, p. 447, Egypt ; Heugl. 

 Orn. N.O.-Afr. 1871, p. 851 ; Shelley, B. Egypt, 1872, p. 215, 

 pi. 10. fig. 2 (good). 



Turtur turtm'oides jWuitt. MS. Icon. ined. p. 67, fide Heugl. 

 Orn. N.O.-Afr. 1875, App. p. 170. 



Very similar to T. communis, but differs as follows : — Entire 

 head and back of the neck sandy brown, passing into fawn- 

 colour on the upper back; chin and centre of the throat 

 slightly paler; lower back fawn-colour, with dusky centres 

 to the feathers and only very slightly washed with grey on 



