SPILOPELIA. STIGMATOPELIA. 99 



Spilopelia suratensis (Gin.). 



Turtur suratensis, Layard, Ann. $ Mag. Nat. Hist. (2) xiv. p. 60 (1854) ; 



Legge, Birds Ceyl. p. 705 (1879) ; Oates ed. Hume, Nests fy Eggs Ind. B. 



ii. p. 353 (1890) ;. Salvador!, Cat. Birds B. M. xxi, p. 444 (1893). 

 Spilopelia suratensis, Sharpe, Hand-l. i. p. 80 (1899). 



The eggs of the Indian Spotted Dove are fairly glossy, and measure 

 from -95 to 1-2 in length, and from '75 to -95 in breadth. 



1. Kotegurh, N.W. Himalayas, May. Hume Coll. 



1. Jerripani. Hume Coll. 



3. Monsrphoo, Sikhim (J. Gammie). Hume Coll. 



1. Terai, 24th March. Hume Coll. 



1. Terai, 21st April. Hume Coll. 



1. Terai, 26th April. Hume CoU. 



1. Terai, 2nd May. Hume Coll. 



2. Terai, llth Sept. Hume Coll. 



3. Lucknow, 21st April. Hume Coll. 



1. Lucknow, 9th Aug. Hume Coll. 



2. Lucknow, 4th Sept. Hume Coll. 

 1. Lucknow, 15th Sept. Hume Coll. 

 1. Bareilly, 28th May. Hume Coll. 

 1. Mundla, 6th April. Hume Coll. 

 1. Nilghiris, May. Hume Coll. 

 1. Kotaoherry, Nilghiris, 16th March Hume Coll. 



(Miss Cockburn). 

 1. Kotagherry, 16th April (Miss Hume Coll. 



Cockburn). 

 1. Kotagherry, 15th May (Miss Hume Coll. 



Cockburn). 



1. Ceylon (E. L. Layard). Salvin-Godrnan Coll. 



Genus STIGMATOPELIA, Sundeu. 

 Stigmatopelia senegalensis (Linn.). 



Coluniba senegalensis, Thien. Fortpflanz. ges. Vog. p. 59. tab. xi. tig. 7 



(1845-54). 



Turtur eegyptiacus, Baedeker, Eier Eur. Vog. tab. 67. fig. 11 (1855-63). 

 Columba segyptiaca, Bree, Birds Eur. iii. p. 195, pi. (1867). 

 Turtur senegalensis, Tristram, Ibis, 1868, p. 211 ; Ayres, Ibis, 1871, 



p. 261 ; Shelley, Birds Egypt, p. 217 (1872) ; Bree, Birds Eur. 2nd ed. 



iv. p. 106, pi. (1875) ; Dresser, Birds Eur. vii. p. 55 (1876) ; 



Sharpe s ed. Layard, Birds S. Africa, p. 568 (1875-84) ; Salvadori, 



Cat. Birds B. M. xxi. p. 448 (1893). 

 Stigmatopelia senegaleusis, Sharpe, Hand-l. i. p. 80 (1899). 



The eggs of the Egyptian Turtle-Dove have a fair amount of gloss 

 and are very variable in size, measuring from -98 to 1*13 in length, 

 and from '75 to '9 in breadth. 



2. Fuerteventura, Canary Is. Capt. Savile Reid [P.]. 

 2. Jericho, 18th April (H. B. Tristram). Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 1. Egypt, Feb. (S. S. Allen). Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 1. Egypt, March (S. S. A.). Salvin-Goclmau Coll. 



4. Egypt (J. H. C. $ S. S. A.). J. H. Cochrane, Esq. [P.]. 



