COLUMBID^ TURTUR 169 



Description. Closely resembling T. semitorquatus, but with the 

 forehead and crown darker and washed with sepia, the abdomen 

 white, tinged with grey on the sides, and the under tail-coverts pale 

 grey strongly edged with white. 



Iris yellow ; skin round the eye red ; bill dark brown ; feet 

 pinkish. 



Length about 12-0; wing 6'25; tail 4-75 ; culmen -60; tarsus 1-0. 



Distribution. This Dove was first discriminated by Bocage, who 

 received an example from Angola ; it was obtained at Tete, by Kirk, 

 many years ago, while lately several specimens have reached the 

 South African Museum from Dr. Stoehr, obtained on the Luangwa 

 Eiver and at N'tambwa's, north of the middle Zambesi, near Feira. 

 It has also been met with round Victoria Nyanza and on the Upper 

 Nile. 



636. Turtur capicola. Cape Turtle Dove. 



La Tourterelle a collier du Cap, Levaillant, Ois. d'Afr. vi, p. 79 (1808). 

 Columba risoria, Burchell, Travels i, pp. 213, 318, 501 (1822). 

 Columba vinacea var. capicola, Sundevall, K. Vet. Akad. Handl. ii, 



no. 3, p. 54 (1857) ; Grill, ibid, no. 10, p. 51 (1858) [Cape and 



Knysna] . 

 Turtur semitorquatus (nee C. semitorquata Gm.) Gurney, Ibis, 1860, 



p. 214 [Natal] ; P. L. Sclater, P.Z.S., 1866, p. 23 [Windvogelberg] ; 



Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 260 (1867) ; Gurney, Ibis, 1873, p. 259. 

 Turtur albiventris, Shelley, Ibis, 1875, pp. 60, 83 ; Holnb fr Pelzeln, 



Orn. Slid-Afr. p. 172 (1882). 

 Turtur capicola, Finsch $ Hartl. Vog. Ost-Afrikas, p. 548 (1870) ; 



Gurney, Ibis, 1873, p. 259; Oates, Matabeleland, p. 322 (1881); 



Butler, Feilden and Beid, Zool. 1882, p. 338 ; Shelley, Ibis, 1883, 



p. 313 ; Sharpe, ed. Layard' s B. S. Afr. p. 567 (1884) ; Salvadori, 



Cat, B. M. xxi, p. 424 (1893) ; EendaU, Ibis, 1896, p. 174 ; Shelley, 



B. Afr. i, p. 137 (1896) ; Woodward Bros. Natal B. p. 132 (1899) ; 



Marshall, Ibis, 1900, p. 261 ; Eeichenow, Vog. Afr. i, p. 414 (1901) ; 



Haagner, Ibis, 1902, pp. 573, 579; Whitehead, Ibis, 1903, p. 234. 

 Streptopelia capicola, Ayres, Ibis, 1873, p. 282, 1880, p. 109 ; Sharpe, 



Ibis, 1904, p. 6 [Deelfontein] . 

 " Tortel Duif " of Dutch; "Ihobi" (the same name as that given to 



T. semitorquata) of the Zulus. 



Description. Adult. Crown and head mauve-grey, becoming 

 more pink on the lower neck, at the base of which is a broad black 

 semi-collar ; rest of the upper surface pale brown, becoming slaty- 

 blue on the wing-coverts and inner secondaries ; primary coverts 



