834 Messrs. Sclater and Mackvvorth-Praed on [Ibis, 



5. S. s. soKOTR^ Claude Grant, Bull. B. O. C. xxxv. 1914, 



p. 19 : Socotra. 

 Altliough widely separated geographically from the last 

 race, and with S. s. cequatorialis intervening, it 

 happens to be practically identical with S. s. 

 sudanensis. 



6, S. s. PHffiNicopHiLA Hartert, Nov. Zool. xxiii. 1916, 



p. 82. No exact type-locality given, but from 

 " Date groves south of the Atlas in Algeria, Tunisia, 

 and ]Marocco." 

 Of this race we have no specimens, but it is given as 

 browner and larger than 8. s. senegalensis, wing 

 139-152 mm. 



Turtur abyssinica delicatula. 



Chalcopelia delicatula Sharpe, Bull. B. O. C. xii. 1902, 

 p. 84 : Goz Abu Gumar, White Nile. 



Chalcopelia afra (nee Linn.), Butler, Ibis, 1908, p. 2^9, 

 1909, p. 88. 



[B. coll.] 4 Roseires Aug. & Sept. Sen. ; 1 Jebel Ahmed 

 Agha May, 1 Malakal Dec. U.N. ; 1 Wau Apl. E.G. 



[C. & L. coll.] 1 Kamisa Dec, 120 miles above Sennar 

 Jan. Sen. 



[Gurney coll.] 1 Meroe Feb. Sen. 



This race may or may not be distinct from C. abyssinica 

 Sharpe from northern Abyssinia. The latter was described 

 at the same time as the above form and separated on the 

 colour of the legs and feet. We can find no difference in 

 colour of ])lumage, but as the colour of the bill is — as 

 remarked below — a distinctly material character in these 

 birds, we should not like to say that the colour of the legs 

 and feet was of no importance. 



The Blue-spotted Dove has for some time now been 

 regarded as distinct from the Green-spotted Dove. Not 

 only is this so, however, but there are two species of Blue- 

 spotted Dove occurring side by side in the northern half of 

 Africa. The material before us seems conclusive on the 



