512 COLUMBIA. 



and Dav , S/r. F. vi. p. 420; Hume, Sir. F. viii. p. 1 10 ; Oates, B. Br. 

 Bunn. ii. p. 296. The TENASSERIM CUCKOO DOVE. 



Forehead and crown chestnut; sides of the head and neck, also hind neck 

 and back, minutely freckled with greyish white ; rump and upper tail 

 coverts brown, suffused with rufous at the edges ; wing coverts, scapulars 

 and tertiaries dark brown, tipped with chestnut ; quills dark brown ; chin and 

 throat fulvous ; lower plumage rufous, blotched with black on the breast ; 

 under wing coverts chestnut; four central tail feathers brown, the others 

 brown at the base and chestnut, with a subterminal dusky bar. (Oa/es) Legs 

 and feet dark brownish red ; bill pinkish red or pale purplish brown ; irides 

 sometimes grey with an inner ring of blue or grey only, or pearly white ; 

 orbital skin pale blue. (Davisoii). 



Length. \^ inches; tail 6-5; wing 5-6; tarsus 07; bill from gape 0-9. 



Hab. Tenasserim on the Mooleyit mountain, and further north at Kollidoo ; 

 also on the Karin hills east of Tounghoo at an elevation of 3000 feet. Extends 

 down the Malay Peninsula. Nothing is known of its nidification. 



Sub-Family. 



Habits terrestrial and arboreal ; tail somewhat long, with pale tips to the 

 outer feathers ; neck usually adorned with a ring or spot. 



Sub-Family, TURTURIN^E. Bonap. 



Bill lengthened, slender, the base soft and tumid ; wings long ; feet short ; 

 feathers of the rump rather rigid. 



Gen. Turtur. Sdby. 



Bill slender; wings long, 2nd and 3rd quills longest; tail moderate, 

 rounded or graduated ; tarsi scutellated in front, naked ; outer toe shorter 

 than the inner. 



1168. Turtur pulchratUS, Hodgs., J. A. S. B. xiii. Turtur 

 rupicolus, apud Jerd., B. Ind. ii. p. 476, No. 792 ; Hume and l)av., S/r. F. 

 vi. p. 421. The ASHY TURTLE DOVE. 



Forehead pale isabelline ; top of head bluish ashy, nape with a vinous 

 tinge ; upper back, cheeks, sides of the face and sides of the body, also the 

 upper breast, vinous ; chin and a small gular streak pale isabelline ; neck 

 patch black, each feather tipped with paler bluish white ; lower back and rump 

 bluish ash ; also the upper tail coverts, which in some are edged with pale 

 rufous ; central tail feathers dusky black, the others black and tipped broadly 

 with greyish white, the outermost feather on each side white on the outer web 

 and at tip ; scapulars, tertiaries, lesser and median coverts dark brown, 

 margined with rufous ; greater coverts dusky on the inner web and ashy on 

 outer; primaries and secondaries dusky brown ; darker on their outer web and 

 very narrowly edged with dirty white ; innermost secondaries edged and 



