830 INTessrs. Sclater and Mackwortli-Praed on [Ibis, 



back, and the blue-grey wing-coverts contrast strongly with 

 tlie blackish ])rimaries and primary-coverts — in S. semi- 

 torquata they are dark like the primaries and their coverts. 



Streptopelia decipiens nr. permista. 



Turtur anibiffuus pennistiis Reichw. V. A. iii. 1905, p. 808 : 

 "East Africa, from Victoria Nyanza to Zambesi." 



Turtur decipiens apud Butler, Ibis, 1908, p. 249, 1909, 

 p. 88. 



[B. coll.] 1 Bahr el Zeraf June, U.N. ; 1 Shambo May, 

 1 Gigging "summer,'^ Mon. ; 1 Wau Apl. BG. 



[C. & L. coll] 1 Bahr el Zeraf Mch., 1 Meshra Zeraf 

 Jan. (albino), 2 I)etwcen Sobat R. and Bahr el Zeraf 

 Feb. U.N. 



These Doves agree best with Reichenow's description ot" 

 S. d. permista, but are slightly out of its supposed range. 

 They are a good deal more richly coloured than the more 

 northern ;S'. d. decipiens^ though there are intermediate 

 examples. Close to thera also, but possibly still more 

 brightly coloured, is >S'. d. shelleyi Salvad. from the Niger. 

 A good review of the races of this species is given by Zedlitz, 

 J. f. O. 1914', pp. 645-649. We have not sufficient material 

 to confirm or disi)ute his conclusions. 



Streptopelia vinacea barbaru. 



Streptopelia barljarn Antin. Cat. di Ucc. 1884, p. 89 : 

 Sennar ami Kordofan. 



Turtur vinaceus n\)\u\ Butler, Ibis, 1909, p. 88. 



[B. coll.] 1 Khor Gitti Mch., 1 Wau Apl. B.G. 



These two examples are probably intermediate l)ctween 

 the typical race from north-western Africa and S. v. barbaru 

 from "Sennar and Kordofan.'^ They have a wing measure- 

 ment of 144 and 136 mm. A list of tlie races of this species 

 is given by Zedlitz, J. f. O. 1910, p. 344. It is remarkable 

 that we have no specimens whatever from what Antinori 

 gives as typical localities. Salvadori states, in the Cat. Birds 

 JJrit. Mns. xxi. p. 429, that he has examined Antinori's type 

 and that it is this species, otherwise a mis-application of 

 names would suggest itself. 



