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COLUMBID^: 



TYMPANISTRIA 



640. Tympanistria bicolor. Tambourine Dove. 



Le Tourterelle tambourette, Levaillant, Ois. d'Afr. vi, p. 86, pi. 272 



(1808). 

 Columba tympanistria, Temm. $ Knip, Pig- i, fain. sec. p. 80, pi. 36 



(1808-11). 

 Peristera tympanistria, Gurney, Ibis, 1860, p. 214, 1864, p. 359 [Natal] ; 



Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 262 (1867) ; Shelley, Ibis, 1875, p. 84. 

 Tympanistria bicolor, Reichenb. Nat. Syst. Vog. p. xxv (1852) ; Wood- 

 ward Bros., Ibis, 1898, p. 217 ; id. Natal Birds, p. 134 (1899) ; Short- 



ridge, Ibis, 1904, p. 201. 

 Tympanistria tympanistria, Butler, Feilden and Held, Zool. 1882, 



p. 338 ; Shelley, Ibis, 1883, p. 326 ; Sharpe, ed. Layard ] s B. S. Afr. 



p. 571 (1884) ; Salvadori, Cat. B. M. xxi, p. 504 (1893) ; Shelley, B. 



Afr. i, p. 138 (1896) ; Reichenoiv, Vog. Afr. i, p. 424 (1901). 

 ' White Breasted Dove " of some authors ; " Isebelu" of the Zulus. 



FIG. 56. Wing of Tympanistria bicolor from below, x -| 



Description. Adult Male. Front of the head, a patch above the 

 ear-coverts and a line above and below the eye connecting them, 

 white ; lores, posterior half of the "crown, nape and back brown, 

 a little more ashy on the head ; wing-quills cinnamon, with marked 

 brown edgings and tips ; on the outer web of some of the inner 

 coverts and secondaries metallic spots of blackish-purple ; two not 

 well-marked bands of dark brown across the rump ; central pair 

 of tail-feathers brown with a wash of cinnamon, outer pair ashy 

 with a broad subterminal band of black ; below white throughout, 

 under wing-coverts and axillaries cinnamon, under tail-coverts and 

 flanks ashy-brown. 



Iris dark brown, eyelids deep lilac ; bill and legs purplish. 



Length in flesh, 8'75 ; wing 4-5 ; tail 3 '65 ; culmen -60 ; tarsus -80. 





