316 • Capt. G. E. Shelley on the 



1864, p. 448, Palestine; Layard, B. S. Afr. 1867, p. 261 ; 

 Taylor, Ibis, 1867, p. Q7 ; Gurney, Ibis, 1878, p. 47, Natal ; 

 Tristr. torn. cit. p. 210, Palestine; Fiuscli & Jesse, Trans. 

 Z. S. vii. 1870, p. 290, Koomaylee; Blanf. Geol. and Zool. 

 Abyss, p. 417 ; Finscli & Hartl. Vog. Ostafr. 1870, p. 551 ; 

 Taczanowski, J. f. O. 1870, p. 51, Constantine ; Heugl. Orn. 

 N.O.-Afr. 1871-1875, p. 841, App. p. 170; Ayres, Ibis, 1871, 

 p. 261, Transvaal ; Gurney in Anderss. B. Dam. Ld. 1872, 

 p. 232 ; Shelley, B. Egypt, 1872, p. 217 ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1872, 

 p. 73, Fantee; Shelley & Buckley, torn. cit. p. 290, Gold 

 Coast; Reichenow, J. f. O. 1872, p. 391, 1873, p. 213, Accra; 

 Antin. & Salvad. Viagg. Bogos, 1873, p. 131, Karen ; Beiche- 

 now, J. f. O. 1874, p. 388, Accra; Ussher, Ibis, 1874, p. 71, 

 Gold Coast ; Dresser, B. Eur. vii. 1876, p. 55, pi. 465 (mode- 

 rate) ; Ayres, Ibis, 1877, p. 346, Transvaal; Cab. J. f. O. 

 1878, p. 243, Ukambani; Fischer & Beichenow, J. f. O. 

 1878, pp. 250, 292, Mombas; Bocage, Orn. Angola, 1881, 

 p. 388; Sclat. & Hartl. P. Z. S. 1881, p. 173, Socotra ; 

 Shelley, Ibis, 1882, p. 359, Mashoona ; Butler, Feilden, & 

 Reid, Zoologist, 1883, p. 338, Natal. 



Peristera seneyalensis, P. rufescens, P. eegyptiaca, C. L. 

 Brehm, Vogelf. 1855, p. 257. 



Columba savignyi, Reichenb. Taub. 1855, p. 72. 



Turtur cegyptiacus, Tristr. Ibis, 1859, p. 35, Palestine; 

 Salvin, torn. cit. p. 318, E. Atlas; Tristr. Ibis, 1860, p. 69, 

 N. Africa; Shelley, Ibis, 1871, p. 143, Egypt; Gurney, 

 tom. cit. p. 295, Algeria. 



Head and upper half of the neck deep vinous, slightly paler 

 on the chin and centre of the upper throat; eyelids red; a 

 broad collar round the front and sides of the neck formed of 

 black feathers broadly tipped with fawn-colour; back of the 

 neck, back, scapulars, and four centre tail-feathers brown, 

 the feathers of the upper back and scapulars generally more 

 or less edged with fawn-colour ; sides of the lower back 

 washed with grey ; remainder of the tail slaty black for 

 rather more than half its length, then grey fading into white 

 towards the end, the white extending in amount towards the 

 outer feathers, which have also broad white edges to their 



