308 Capt. G. E. Shelley on the 



Ehr.j seems to be a MS. name; for I cannot find it with a 

 description anywhere. 



In the British Museum there are two specimens labelled 

 ''Tette (Livingstone Exped.).^^ The Zambesi is therefore 

 here recorded for the species for the first time. 



Professor Barboza du Bocage gives an excellent descrip- 

 tion of this species under the new title of T. amhiguus, from 

 three specimens^ two from Danbe and Rio Coroca, in Ben- 

 guela, the third labelled " Senegal ; " but he doubts the cor- 

 rectness of the latter locality. For that reason I have not 

 entered Senegal in its range^ although I think it highly pro- 

 bable that this species will be found to have the same range 

 as T. semitorquatus. 



26. TURTUR RISORIUS. 



Columba risoria, Linn. S. N. i. 1766, p. 285. 



Peristera risoria, Boie, Isis, 1828, p. 327. 



Turtur risorius, Selby, Nat. Libr. 1835, p. 169, pi. 17 (very 

 bad) ; Tristr. Ibis, 1864, p. 448, Palestine ; Taylor, Ibis, 1867, 

 p. 67; Tristr. Ibis, 1868, pp. 210, 333, Palestine; Drake, 

 Ibis, 1869, pp. 151, 153, Morocco (as caged birds) ; Dresser, 

 B. Eur. vii. 1877, p. 51, pi. 464. fig. 2 (good). 



Turtur duraca, Hodgs. in Gray's Zool. Misc. 1844, p. 85. 



Peristera ridens, C. L. Brehm, Vogelf. 1855, p. 257. 



? Peristera intercedens, C. L. Brehm, tom. cit. p. 258, nee 

 N. Afr. 



Streptopelia intercedens, Reichb. Taub. 1855, p. 175. 



Streptopelia risoria, Bp. Compt. Rend. xl. 1855, p. 18. 



Turtur intercedens, Finsch & Hartl. Vog. Ostafr. 1870, 

 p. 545. 



Turtur negJecta, var. /3, Schl. Mus. P.-B. iv. 1873, p. 123. 



Turtur stoliczka, Hume, Stray Feathers, 1874, p.. 519. 



Head, neck, and chest pale pink, with no grey shade, and 

 fading into white towards the chin ; forehead nearly white ; 

 no black feathers in front of the eye ; on the back of the 

 neck a broad black collar, partially edged above and below 

 with white ; back, inner half of the wing-coverts, innermost 

 secondaries, and two centre tail-feathers very pale brown, 



