.310 Capt. G. E. Shelley on the 



Tnrtur risoroides, MS. in Mus. Lugd, fide Heugl. Orn. 

 N.O.-Afr. 1871, p. 834. 



Turtur albiventris, Finsch & Jesse (nee Gray)_, Trans. Z. S. 

 vii. 1870, p. 289, Abyssinia; Blanf, Geol. & Zool. Abyssinia, 

 1870, p. 417; Finsch & Hartl. Vog. Ostafr. 1870, p. 546, pt., 

 N.E. Afr. ; Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. 1871, p. 834; Shelley, 

 B. Egypt, 1872, p. 217. 



Turtur ridibundus, Wiirtt. MS. in Coll. Mergenth., fide 

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



Very similar to T. risorius, but smaller, and with the fol- 

 lowing well- marked difi"erences : — the pink of the chest fades 

 into white on the lower breast, abdomen, and under tail- 

 coverts. Total length 93 inches, culmen 0*65, wing 5*9, 

 tail 4*1, tarsus 0*8. • 



Hab. N.E. Africa. 



My description is taken from a specimen in my collection 

 labelled " Koomale, Abyssinia {Jesse) ." 



Von Heuglin gives its range from Southern Nubia to the 

 White Nile and the Red-Sea coast, so that its known range 

 is, approximately, N.E. Africa from about 8° to 16° N. lat. 

 Riippell includes Egypt ; but not having been met with there 

 since his time, I should exclude it from the Egyptian list. 

 It does not occur in W. Africa, but is there represented by 

 T. vinaceus, which has frequently been identified with this 

 species under the title of T. albiventris. 



This is undoubtedly the Columba risoria of Riippell, to 

 which bird Sundevall, in 1857, applied the name of Columba 

 roseogrisea, under the impression that Levaillant (Ois. d^Afr. 

 vi. pi. 268) had figured a specimen of this species from N.E. 

 Africa as "La Tourterelle blonde a collier." There appears 

 to me no doubt that Levaillant intended to figure the pale 

 form of T. capicola, the T. damarensis, Finsch & Hartl., dis- 

 covered by him in Great Namaqua Land ; but his artist 

 failed to indicate the black stripe from the eye to the bill, 

 possibly owing to the condition of the preserved skin, other- 

 wise the grey shade on the crown indicates the pale form of 

 T. capicola. 



Our common tame Turtle Dove belongs to this species. 



