COLUMBID^ TURTUR 167 



Key of the Species. 



A. With a black collar on the hind neck. 



a. Larger, wing over 7'0; outer tail-feathers 

 with a terminal band of grey. 



a 2 . Under tail- coverts grey T. semitorquata, p. 167. 



b 2 . Under tail-coverts grey, margined with 



white T. ambiguus, p. 168. 



b. Smaller, wing under 6'0 ; outer web of the 

 outer tail-feathers with a broad terminal 

 band of white. 



rt l . Forehead and breast darker T. capicola, p. 169. 



b 1 . Forehead and breast paler, almost 



white T. capicola 



damarensis, p. 171. 



B. Black collar on the hind neck replaced by a 

 series of bifid feathers with rufous tips and 

 black bases on the sides and front of the 



neck .*^-. T. senegalensis, p. 172. 



634. Turtur semitorquatus. Bed-eyed Dove. 



Columba semitorquata, Biippell, Neue Wirbelth. Vog. p. 66, pi. 23, fig. 

 2 (1835). 



Turtur erythrophrys, Swains., B. W. Afr. ii, p. 207, pi. 22 (1837) 

 Gurney, Ibis, 1862, p. 152 [Natal]. 



Turtur vinaceus (nee Gmel.} Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 259 (1867). 



Streptopelia semitorquata, Gurney, in Andersson's B. Damaral. p. 284 

 (1872). 



Turtur semitorquatus, Shelley, Ibis, 1882, p. 359 [Umfuli Eiver] 

 Holub fr Peheln, Orn. Siid-Afr. p. 175 (1882) ; Shelley, Ibis, 1883, 

 p. 303 ; Sharpe, ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. p. 566 (1884) ; Salvadori, 

 Cat. B. M. xxi, p. 416 (1893) ; Fleck, Journ. OrnitJi. 1894, p. 389 ; 

 Shelley, B. Afr. i, p. 136 (1896) ; Woodward Bros. Natal B. p. 131 

 (1899) ; Marshall Ibis, 1900, p. 261 ; Alexander, Ibis, 1900, p. 428 ; 

 Eeichenow, Vog. Afr. i, p. 409 (1901) ; Shortridge, Ibis, 1904, p. 201. 



" Ihobe " of the Zulus (Woodward). 



Description. Adult Male. Forehead and crown grey, shading 

 into pale pink on the cheeks and nape ; this is followed by a very 

 distinct black half collar ; rest of the upper surface pale brown, the 

 greater wing-coverts and rump with a more bluish tinge, the wing- 

 quills darker brown, the concealed bases of the tail-feathers almost 

 black ; below pinky-grey, becoming almost white on the chin and 

 bluish-grey on the flanks, under wing-coverts, abdomen and under 

 tail-coverts ; tail with the basal two-thirds black, the apical third 

 bluish-white. 



