COLUMBID^ COLUMBA 161 



Columba phteonotus, G. B. Gray, List Bt. Mas. Columbae, p. :->2 

 (1856) ; Bucldey, Ibis, 1874, p. 384 ; Ay res, Ibis, 1877, p. 345, 1880, p. 

 109 ; Shelley, Ibis, 1882, p. 259 [Dry Harts Kiver] ; Butler, Feildcn 

 and Reid, Zool. 1882, p. 337 ; Shelley, Ibis, 1883, p. 279 ; Sharpe, ed. 

 Layards,B. S. Afr. pp. 559, 854 (1884) ; Salvadori, Cat.B. M. xxi, 

 p. 268 (1893) ; Shelley, B. Afr. i, p. 135 (1896) ; Woodward, Bros. 

 Ibis, 1898, p. 217 ; id. Natal B. p. 129 (1899) ; Beithenoiv, Vog. Afr. 

 i, p. 403 (1901) ; Haagner, Ibis, 1902, pp. 573, 579 ; Whitehead, Ibis, 



1903, p. 233 ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1904, p. 6 [Deelfontein] ; Shortridge, Ibis, 



1904, p. 200. 



Columba trigonera, Gurney, Ibis, 1860, p. 214, 1864, p. 359, 1868, p. 



164. 

 Stictcenas phaeonotus, Gurney, in Andersson's B. Damaral. p. 231 



(1872) ; Shelley, Ibis, 1875, p. 83. 

 " Bosch-duif " of the Dutch v "Ivukutu" of Amaxosa (Stanford); 



" Leeba " of Basutos (Murray). 



FIG. 51. Head of Columba plicconota. 



Description. Adult. Head and neck all round slaty-grey, all 

 round the base of the neck a collar of pointed, somewhat outstand- 

 ing feathers, chestnut brown with pinkish tips ; mantle and most of 

 the inner coverts of the wing maroon, rest of the wings slaty like 

 the head, most of the coverts with small triangular spots of white 

 at their apices, giving the wing a speckled appearance ; rump, upper 

 tail-coverts and tail slaty-grey like the head ; the tail-feathers with a 

 broad terminal bar of black and traces of a subterminal bar as well ; 

 below slaty-grey throughout except the collar and a wash of maroon 

 just below it. 



Iris yellowish-white, sometimes with an outer ring of yellowish- 

 red; bill black to ashy-brown; cere whitish-horn; naked space 

 round the eye and legs crimson. 



Length (in flesh) 13*5 ; wing 8 5; tail 4-5 ; tarsus -95; culmen -80. 

 The sexes are alike. A young bird is without the collar ; the back is 

 chestnut rather than maroon and the white spots on the wings are 

 11 VOL. iv. 



