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28. TURTUR VINACEUS. 



Columba torqnata senegalensis, Briss. Oru. i. 1760, p. 124 

 (descr. good), pi. 11. fig. 1. 



Columba vinacea, Gm. S. N. i. 1788, p. 782, ex Briss. 



Turtur stmitorqvatus, Swains, (uec Riipp.), B. W. Afr. ii- 

 1837, p. 208; Sharpe, Ibis, 1870, p. 486, Fantee; Shelley & 

 Buckley, Ibis, 1872, p. 290, Gold Coast. 



Turtur albiventris, Gray, List Gall. 1844, p. 191, W. Afr. ; 

 Heugl. Oni. N.O.-Afr. 1871, p. 834, pt., W. Afr. ; Beichenow, 

 J. f. O. 1874, p. 388, Accra, 1877, p. 13, Loango coast. 



Streptopelia semitorquata, Bp. Compt. Rend. 1855, p. 18. 



Turtur vinaceus, Gray, List B. Brit. Mus. Colurab. 1856, 

 p. 43, pt. ; Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. 1857, p. 196, pt. ; Schl. Mus. 

 P.-B. iv. 1873, p. 123. 



Streptopelia vinacea, Bp. Consp. Gen. Av. ii. 1857, p. 64, 

 nee White Nile. 



Head, neck, and breast rich vinous pink, with a slight grey 

 shade on the occiput, paler and almost white on the chin and 

 centre of the upper throat ; forehead pale pink ; a black 

 band from the eyes to the lores ; on the back of the neck a 

 black collar, narrowly edged above with ashy white ; back, 

 inner half of the wing-coverts, innermost secondaries, and 

 two centre tail-feathers rich pale brown, passing into pearl- 

 grey on the remainder of the coverts ; the secondaries and 

 rump partially washed with grey ; bastard wing and primary- 

 coverts blackish brown ; primaries dark brown, the quills 

 generally with partial narrow white edges ; remainder of the 

 tail slaty black for rather more than the basal half, the end 

 portion being ashy, rajiidly fading into white, the outer fea- 

 thers having also a rather narrow white edge; the under 

 surface of the tail is black and white ; the abdomen and vent 

 pinkish white, fading into white on the greater under tail- 

 coverts ; the flanks shade into leaden grey ; under wing- 

 coverts leaden grey ; under surface of the quills brown, with 

 no white inner margins ; iris orange-red ; bill black ; legs 

 pinkish red. Total length 9*2 inches, culmen 0'55, wing 5'5, 

 tail 4, tarsus 0*8. 



Hab. W. Africa from Senegal to the Congo. 



