33 :\Ir. W. L. Sclater on Birds collected 



fallen grain, and I have on many occasious shot five or six 

 Avith one barrel. This Dove drinks regularly just at sundown. 

 The species is not truly gregarious, moving about singly or 

 in pairs and threes, only congregating in certain spots for 

 feeding and drinking. The call is very similar to that of the 

 domestic Pigeon. 



The soft parts of an adult are : — Irides a narrow ring of 

 oraiige-\ell()W ; bare ski^i round eyes, lores, legs and toes 

 crimson-plum-colored ; bill dull black. In the young; — 

 Irides nearly white ; bill smoky black ; legs and toes reddish 

 brown.] 



636. TUKTUH CAPICOLA. 



CC. Table Mt. slopes, Feb. (1); Knysnn, Dec. (1) ; 

 Z. Sibudeni, Oct. (2) ; Jususie Valley, Dec. {!) ; Umfolosi 

 Station, Aug. (2) ; Tv. Wakkerstroom, Feb., Mch. (3) ; 

 Zuurbron, Apl. (I). 



637. TURTUR CAPICOLA DAMAKENSIS. 



Tv. Klein Letaba, Aug., Sept. (2) ; Woodbush, Dec, 

 May (2) ; P. Coguno, June (2) ; Tete, Sept. (1) ; CC. 

 Klipfontein, Apl. (3). 



The Damara Turtle-Dove only differs from the Cape form 

 in its paler colour ; the white on the abdomen and forehead 

 is more diffused and of a purer sh:ide. The birds from 

 Klein Letaba and Woodbush are clearly intermediate, as 

 would be naturally expected. The Namaqualand birds are 

 also intermediate, but differ slightly in tinge from both the 

 described forms. The colour cf the under parts is more 

 slaty and less pink. These differences are hardly appreciable 

 and do not, in my estimation, warrant subspecific separation. 

 There is no appreciable difference in dimensions among any 

 of the birds. 



[" Tortel-duif " of the Colonists. 



The Cape Turtie-Dovc is found commonly and was noted by 

 myself at the Cape Peninsula, the Knysna, Natal, Zululaud, 

 the South-Eastern Transvaal, and one specimen Avas taken 

 in the North Transvaal at Klein Letaba, where it overlaps 

 T. dumarensls and most probably interbreeds with it. It 



