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low thick-foliaged tree. They are more regular saucers than those of other 

 doves, composed of roots, grass, or twigs, but comparatively neat and with a 

 central depression. Eggs two in number, pure white, from I to ri inch in 

 length and from 0-82 to O-86 in breadth. 



Gen. Geopelia- Swains. 

 General characters of Turtur ; tail of 12 feathers only. 



1176. Geopelia Striata (Linn.), Salvad., Ucc. Born. p. 298 ; Hume 

 and Dav., Str. F. vi. p. 423 ; Hume, Str. F. viii. p. i IO; Kelham, Ibis, 1881, 

 p. 528. Columba striata, Linn., Syst. Nat. i. p. 282. The BARRED GROUND 

 DOVE. 



Forehead and crown, as far as the eyes, also the cheeks, chin, and throat 

 pure grey ; upper part of the ear coverts grey ; lower part brown ; remainder 

 of the crown and nape vinous brown ; sides of the neck, whole hind neck and 

 upper back, sides of the breast and of the body white, closely and finely barred 

 with black ; centre of the breast and abdomen vinaceous ; vent and under tail 

 coverts white ; lower back, rump, upper tail coverts, scapulars, wing coverts 

 and tertiaries brown, each feather with a terminal black bar ; primaries and 

 secondaries dark brown, the latter broadly edged with the colour of the back ; 

 central tail feathers pale brown, the others dark brown, the four outer pairs 

 broadly tipped with white; under wing coverts chestnut. (Oates^) Front of 

 tarsus and toes pinkish purple, with the scutation divided by pink lines ; back 

 of tarsus and soles fleshy pink ; bill blue at base, bluish white terminally ; 

 irides white or grey, brown. (Davison.} 



Hab. Tenasserim, in the extreme south, extending down the Malay Penin- 

 sula ; is also found in Sumatra and Java. According to Davison its habits 

 are like those of Turtur tigrinus 



Sub-Family, CALCENIN^E. 



Bill strong with a tubercle at base ; legs and feet stout ; head with long 

 crest ; plumage metallic. 



1177. Caloenas nicobarica (Linn.), Hume, Str. F. \\. p. 271 ; 



id., Nests and Eggs p. 510 ; Blyth, B. Burm. p. 147 ; Hume and Dav. y Str. 

 F. vi. p. 425 ; Hume, Str. F. viii. pp. 68, 1 10 ; Gates, B. Br. Burm. ii. 

 p. 299. Columba nicobarica, Linn., Syst. Nat. i. p. 283. The HACKLED 

 GROUND-PIGEON. 



Entire head and neck from deep slaty grey to blackish brown ; a long and 

 thick bunch of narrow hackles from the base of the occiput hairlike and slaty 

 grey and from the back of the neck metallic green, shot with gold and copper 

 and margined with slaty grey ; rest of upper plumage except the tail and longer 

 and upper tail coverts which are white refulgent with metallic reflections ; lesser 

 wing coverts, outer webs of primaries, vvinglet, greater coverts, and earlier 



