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THE TRUE TURTLE-DOVES. GENUS TURTUR. 

 Turtur, Selby in Jardine's Nat. Libr. Pigeons, p. 169 (1835). 



Type, T. turtur (Linn.). 



The characters of the genus Turlur are the same as those 

 of the Sub-family recorded above. 



I. THE TURTLE-DOVE. TURTUR TURTUR. 



Columba furfur, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 284(1766); Macgill. 



Brit. B. i. p. 291 (1837). 

 Turtur vulgaris, Eyton ; Dresser, B. Eur. vii. p. 39, pi. 462 



(1876). 

 Turtur communis, Selby ; B. O. U. List Brit. B. p. 139 (1883) ; 



Saunders, ed. Yarrell's Brit. B. iii. p. 21 (1883); id. Man. 



Brit. B. p. 473 (1889); Lilford, Col. Fig. Brit. B. 



part xxviii. (1894). 



Turtur auritus, Ray; Seebohm, Hist. Brit. B. ii. p. 411 (1884). 

 Turtur turtur^ Salvad. Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxi. p. 396 (1893). 



Adult Male. General colour above brown, with a ruddy 

 shade, the scapulars and wing-coverts rufous, with black spear- 

 shaped centres to the feathers, less strongly indicated on the 

 wing-coverts ; the outer lesser coverts, and the median and 

 greater series bluish-grey, the innermost ones rufous, with 

 black centres, like the scapulars ; bastard-wing and primary- 

 coverts blackish, externally bluish-grey; quills dusky brown, 

 with a slight ashy shade externally, the feathers narrowly 

 fringed with whity-brown ; lower back, rump, and upper tail- 

 coverts brown, with a ruddy tinge and more or less grey, 

 especially on the sides of the back ; centre tail-feathers dusky 

 brown, with whity-brown tips, the remainder of the feathers 

 black with broad white ends, the outer ones also white on 

 their outer webs ; head and nape bluish-grey ; on the sides of 

 the neck a large patch of mottled feathers, black with bluish- 

 white margins, having a scalloped appearance; sides of face 

 and throat pale vinous, deepening on the fore-neck and breast, 

 and fading off towards the abdomen, which is white, the under 

 tail-coverts being pure white; axillaries and sides of body 

 slaty-blue, the under wing-coverts darker slate-colour; quills 



