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whole outer webs of outermost pair of tail-feathers pure white 

 like the tips ; lower tail-coverts also pure white. In other respects 

 this species is identical with T. ferrago in colouring, but it is 

 considerably smaller. 



Bill greyish black ; orbital skin purple ; iricles orange-yellow ; 

 legs and feet purplish red ; claws black (Scull;/}. 



Length about 11; tail 4*5; wing 6'5 ; tarsus *85; bill from 

 gape *85. 



Distribution. Migratory in the Western Palaearctic region, visiting 

 Northern Africa, Southern Persia, &c., in winter. This Dove 

 ranges to the eastward as far as Tarkand and Kashghar. A few 

 stragglers have been obtained at Gilgit and at Quetta, at both 

 places in summer. 



1307. Turtur suratensis. The Spotted Dove. (Fig. 1, p. 1.) 



Colurnba suratensis, Gm. Syst. Nat. i, p. 778 (1788). 

 Turtur vitticollis, Hoays. in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 85 (1844), descr. 

 nulla. 



Turtur suratensis, Blyth, Cat. p. 236; Jerdon, B. I. iii, p. 479;' 



Beavan, Ibis, 1868, p. 376: Stoliczka, J. A. S. B. xxxvii, pt. 2, 



p. 67 ; Goclw.-Aust. J. A. S'. B. xxxix, pt. 2, p. 112 ; Hume, S. F. 



i, p. 218 ; Adam, ibid. p. 390 ; Hume, N. $ E. p. 504 ; Butler $ 



Hume, S. F. iv. p. 3 ; v, p. 231 ; Fairbank, S. F. iv, p. 262 ; 



v, p. 409 ; Hume $ Bourd. S. F. vii, p. 39 ; Davids. 8f Wend. ibid. 



p. 86 ; Ball, ibid. p. 224 ; Cripps, ibid. p. 297 ; Hume, Cat. no. 795 ; 



Scully, S. F. viii, p. 341 ; Vidal, S. F. ix, p. 75 ; Butler, ibid. 



p. 420; Legc/e, Birds Ceyl. p. 705; Biddulph, Ibis, 1881, p. 92; 



1882, p. 286; Scully, Ibis, 1881, p. 585; Reid, S. F. x, p. 60; 



Davison, ibid. p. 408 ; Barnes, Birds Bom. p. 291 ; Hume, S. F. 



xi, p. 298; Gates in Hume's N. fy E. 2nd ed. ii, p. 353 ; Sharpe, 



Yarkand Miss., Aves, p. 119; Salvador!, Cat. B. M. xxi, p. 444. 



Chitroka fakhta, Perki, Chitla, Kanyskiri, Panduk, H. ; Chaval yhuyu, 



Telia yhuyu, Beng. ; Kawadd, Mahr. ; Bode, Gond; Poda-bella-yuwu, 



Tel. ; Puli-pora, Tarn. ; Mani-praa, Tarn. (Ceylon) ; Kobeya, Allu- 



kobeya, Cing. ; Kii-po-hu, Assamese. 



Coloration. Head above and at sides and nape vinous grey ; fore- 

 head and around eye generally greyer ; a black spot in front of 

 each eye ; back and sides of neck black, each feather bifurcate at 

 the tip and terminating in two white spots ; upper back brown, 

 each feather with two rufous terminal spots, the spots gradually 

 fading out on the lower back and rump, becoming much larger on 

 the scapulars and wing-coverts, in which the rufous end of each 

 feather is divided into two by a blackish shaft-stripe, broadest at 

 the end ; primary and greater secondary wing-coverts ashy ; quills 

 brown ; the four middle tail-feathers brown, the next pair black 

 with grey tips, the others with the basal half black, terminal half 

 whitish or white ; lower surface vinous, whitish on the throat, 

 vent, and lower tail-coverts ; wing-lining grey near the edge, 

 further in and axillaries blackish. 



Young birds are duller and browner, and want the black white- 

 tipped feathers of the neck, whilst the rufous spots on the back 

 and wing-coverts are indistinct. 



