208 RED -EYED DOVE. 



the crown is of a most delicate cinereous, graduating 

 to white in front, and blending behind into the vina- 

 ceous red of the nape and upper neck. The back 

 of the neck has a broad black semi-collar margined 

 by a narrow cinereous line ; the orbits are naked 

 and rich red ; the whole of the under plumage, as 

 far as the belly, is vinaceous, becoming paler on the 

 ears and almost white on the chin; the belly, vent, 

 flanks, and under tail-covers, are clear cinereous. 

 The tail is broad and rounded, the outer half cine- 

 reous (almost white beneath) and the basal half 

 black. The bill is black and the feet dark, possibly 

 red in the live bird; inner wing-covers cinereous 

 black. Structure of the common turtle. 



Total length, 1 1 inches ; bill, from the gape, 1 ; 

 wings, 7 , % tail beyond, 1 ^ ; ditto, from the base, 5 ; 

 tarsus, T 7 o ; middle toe and claw, 1 T 5 5 ; hinder ditto. 



HALF-COLLARED DOVE. 



Turtur semitorquatus, SWAINS. 



Above light brown ; nape with a black crescent-shaped collar ; 

 front, crown, and body beneath, vinaceous , chin and belly 

 whitish ; wing-covers light cinereous ; inner toe longer 

 ehan the outer. 



THERE is such a close similarity in general points of 

 colour between this and the last, that but for their 

 great disparity of size, they might at first be taken 



