TUETUR 647 



vi. p. 233, Taf. 152 ; Hewitson, i. p. 275, pi. Ixvii. fig. 4 ; Gould, 

 B/J of E. iv. pi. 246 ; (Salvador!), Cat. B. Br. Mus. xxi. p. 396 ; 

 T. vulgaris, Eyton, Cat. B. B. p. 32 (1836) ; Dresser, vii. p. 39, 

 pi. 462 ; T. auritus, G. E. Gray, List of G. of B. p. 38 (1840) ; 

 Gould, B. of Gt. Brit. iv. pi. 4. 



. ; Bola, Portug. ; Tortola, Span. ; Tortom, 

 Ital. ; ' Turteltaube, Germ.; Tortelduif, Dutch ; Turteldue, Dan. 

 and Norweg. ; Turturdufoa, Swed. ; TurturUeyyKka t Finn. ; 

 Grorlitza, Russ. 



< ad. (England). Head, neck, breast, and flanks bluish ash, the neck 

 and breast washed with rosy vinous ; back brownish ash marked with 

 reddish brown ; shoulders and most of wing-coverts blackish brown 

 margined with bright rufous ; larger and external smallest coverts pale 

 dove-blue ; rump dove-blue marked with brown ; upper tail-coverts and 

 middle tail feathers clove-brown, the rest blackish brown tinged with blue 

 and broadly tipped with white ; on each side of the neck four rows of 

 black feathers tipped with white ; rest of under parts white ; beak brown ; 

 legs coral-red ; iris reddish brown ; bare skin round the eye red. 

 Culmen 0'8, wing 7'0, tail 4*8, tarsus 0'85 inch. Female similar, but rather 

 smaller and duller. The young bird is browner and duller, and lacks the 

 black and white bars on the sides of the neck. 



Hob. Europe generally, north as a straggler to Northern 

 Scandinavia; Madeira and the Canaries; Northern Africa in 

 winter, south to Shoa ; Asia east to Yarkand and Kashgar. Is 

 a migrant, arriving in England in May, leaving for the south 

 early in the autumn, and in general habits is a timid bird, 

 and frequents woods and groves. 



Its note is a rough tuw-turr, turr-twr, chiefly uttered in 

 the warm weather, and its food consists of grain and seeds of 

 various kinds. Its nest is a very slight platform of twigs, and 

 is placed on a bush or a tree, and its eggs, 2 in number, are 

 usually laid towards the end of May, and are pure white, 

 measuring about T20 by 0'91. 



896. ISABELLINE TURTLE-DOVE. 

 TURTUR ISABELLINUS. 



Turtur isabellinus, Bp. Compt. rend, xliii. p. 942 ; Dresser, vii. p. 49, 

 pi. 464, fig. 1 ; Salvadori, Cat. B. Br. Mus. xxi. p. 400 ; T. sharpii, 

 Shelley, Ibis, 1870, p. 447 ; id. B. of Egypt, p. 215, pi. 10, fig. 2. 



cJ ad. (Egypt). Differs from T. communis in being smaller, in having 

 the head, hind neck, and upper parts generally tawny reddish brown, the 

 head paler and ochreous in tinge ; wing-coverts broadly margined with 



