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deep ; the call trisyllabic. The breeding-season lasts throughout 

 the year ; the nest, of the usual type, is generally in a bush or tree, 

 often a thorny one, and not far from the ground, and the eggs 

 measure about 1-16 by T92. 



Salvador!, following Schlegel, has adopted the name of T. douraca, 

 Hodgson, for this Dove ; but Hodgson's term was published with- 

 out any figure or description, and Lord Walden has shown that 

 Liunaeus's name risurius does apply to the present species. 



Genus (ENOPOPELIA, nov. 



The little ruddy Bing-Dove is distinguished from all other 

 species by its long wing, with the first primary nearly or quite 

 equal to the second, and by having the sexes dissimilar in plumage. 

 Two species are generally attributed to this group, but I cannot 

 see that they are sufficiently distinct to deserve separation. 



1311. (Enopopelia tranquebarica. The Red Turtle-Dove. 



Columba tranquebarica, Herm. Obs. Zool. p. 200 (1804). 



Columba humilis, Temm. PI. Col. pi. 259 (1824). 



Turtur humilis, Blyth, Cat. p. 236 ; id. J. A. S. B. xxiv, p. 261 ; 

 Lai/cird, A. M. N. H. (2) xiv, p. 60; Jerdon, B. I. iii, p. 482; 

 Blyth, Ibis, 1867, p. 151 ; Stoliczka, J. A. S. B. xxxvii, pt. 2, 

 p. 67; xli, pt. 2, p. 249; Hume, Ibis, 1869, p. 19; Ball, J. A. 

 S. B. xli, pt. 2, p. 287; Hume, S. F. i, p. 218; Adam, ibid. 

 p. 391 ; Hume, S. F. ii, p. 269 ; id. N. fy E. p. 507; Godw.-Aust. 

 J. A. S. B. xliii, pt. 2, p. 172 ; Butler, S. F. iv, p. 3 ; Fairbank, 

 ibid. p. 262 : Hume, ibid. p. 292 ; Armstrong $ Hume, ibid. p. 338 ; 

 Hume $ Dav. S. F. vi, p. 423 ; Hume, Cat. no. 797 bis ; Hume $ 

 Inqlis, S. F. ix, p. 258 ; Oates, B. B. ii, p. 294 ; Biddulph, Ibis, 

 1882, p. 286 ; C. H. T. Marshall, Ibis, 1884, p. 421 ; Hume, S. F. 

 xi, p. 299; Salvadori, Cat. B. M. xxi, p. 434. 



Turtur tranquebaricus, Walden, Trans. Zool. Soc. ix, p. 219 ; 

 Blyth, Birds Burm. p. 145 ; Hume, S. F. iv, p. 292 ; Davids. $ 

 Wend. S. F. vii, p. 86; Butler, ibid. p. 186; Ball, ibid. p. 224; 

 Cripps, ibid. p. 297 ; Hume, Cat. no. 797 ; Scully, S. F. viii, p. 342 ; 

 Doicj, ibid. p. 371 ; Lef/ge, Birds Ceyl. p. 708 ; Vidal, S. F. ix, 

 p. 75 ; Butler, ibid. p. 421 ; Reid, S. F. x, p. 61 ; Barnes, Birds 

 Bom. p. 292 ; id. Jour. Bom. N. H. Soc. i, p. 55 ; v, p. 332 ; Oates in 

 Hume's N. $ E. 2nd ed. ii, p. 359 ; Salvadori, Cat. B. M. xxi, p. 437. 



Turtur humilior, Hume, P. A. S. B. 1874, p. 241 ; id. S. F. iii, p. 279 ; 

 iv, p. 292. 



Seroti fakhta, Ghirwi fakhta, Biki, H. ; Golabi yhitgu, lihuiya 

 c/huyu, Tuma khuri, Beiig. ; Rah-yuwa, Peri-aripu guwa, Tel. 



Coloration. Male. Head and nape dark ashy grey ; a black 

 collar round the hind neck ; below this collar the back, scapulars, 

 tertiaries, and wing-coverts are vinous red, more or less tinged 

 with ferruginous; primary-coverts and quills dark brown ; rump 

 and upper tail-coverts dark slaty grey ; middle tail-feathers brown, 

 often washed with grey, next two pairs dark grey at base, paler at 

 the ends, the three outer pairs with the larger basal half blackish 

 above, black below, the smaller terminal half and whole outer web 



