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Turtur negleda, Schl. Mus. P.-B. iv. 1873, p. 122 (ex N.E. 

 Afr. nee var.). 



Turtur fallax, Schl. torn, cit, p. 124. 



Turtur ambiguus, Bocage, Orn. Angola, 1881, p. 386. 



Somewhat similar to T. semitorquatus, from whieh it differs 

 as follows : — Forehead, crown, and sides of the head pearl- 

 grey, fading into white on the chin and centre of the upper 

 throat, and passing into vinous pink on the back of the head 

 and posterior portions of the cheeks ; eyelids black ; neck 

 and chest vinous pink, paler than in T. semitorquatus ; the 

 black collar partially edged above with white; the upper 

 parts are much paler, the grey on the wings being pearl-grey ; 

 the outer secondaries, rump, and centre tail-feathers partially 

 washed with grey; remainder of the tail slaty black for 

 rather more than the basal half, the end portion being slaty 

 grey, fading into white towards the ends of the feathers, the 

 outer one on each side having a very narrow white edge ; the 

 pink of the breast shades into leaden grey on the flanks, 

 paler grey on the thigh -coverts, and into white on the centre 

 of the abdomen and vent; under tail-coverts pearl-grey, 

 broadly edged with white ; under wing-coverts leaden grey ; 

 under surface of the quills dark brown, with very narrow 

 whitish edges to their inner webs. Total length 13 inches, 

 culmen 0'75, wing 6'5, tail 4*9, tarsus 0"9. 



Hab. Upper White Nile, Zambesi, and Benguela. 

 • It is evident that we do not yet know the full range of 

 this species, of which I have examined five specimens. A 

 male and a female collected by Dr. Emin Bey on the Sobat 

 river, which falls into the Nile at about 9° N. lat., betray its 

 northern limit as yet known to me. I have above described 

 the female ; but the male is perfectly similar in plumage, ex- 

 cepting that the white end to the outer tail-feather beneath is 

 1 "5 inch deep in the female and 2'1 inches deep in the male. A 

 specimen collected by Hemprich and Ehrenberg, and labelled 

 by them T. collaris, is in Mr. Dresser^s collection, without a 

 locality. It only differs from the specimen described above 

 in the cheek not being quite so grey; the white end to the 

 outer tail-feather is 2 inches deep. T. collaris, Hempr. & 



