220 VISCOUNT WALDEN ON THE BIRDS 
Dr. Meyer notes the colour of the feet and nails as being grey, and of the bill as 
slate-colour. 
La Tourterelle cendrée de Visle de Lugon, Sonn. Voy. Nouv. Guin. p. 52, pl. 22. 
Columba cinerea, Scop. Del. Fl. Faun. Insubr. ii. p. 94, no. 93 (1786), ex Sonn. ; 
nec Scop. ap. Bp. Consp. ii. p. 61. 
Turtur luzoniensis, Gm. S. N. i. p. 786, no. 32 Turtur, var. 8 (1788), ex Sonn. 
Columba phanicorhyncha, Wagler, Isis, 1829, p. 745, ex Sonn. 
Under the title above cited Sonnerat described a species of ‘Turtledove which, he 
stated, inhabits the island of Luzon, and mentions no other locality. I can find no 
evidence of any species agreeing with Sonnerat’s description having been found in the 
Philippines since Sonnerat wrote. The diagnosis agrees fairly with Columba picturata, 
Temm., from which bird Sonnerat probably took his description. 
Bonaparte (J. c.) confounded two, if not three, distinct species of the genus Turtur 
described by Sonnerat, under Scopoli’s title of Columba cinerea. The description given 
by Bonaparte (J. ¢.) is of Columba miniata, Temm. Pig. & Gall. i. pp. 369, 460, 
founded on Sonnerat’s Grande Tourterelle de la Chine, Voy. aux Indes, ii. p. 178. In 
his reference to Sonnerat the Prince commits three mistakes. He quotes page 176, 
where Sonnerat describes his Tourterelle grise de la Chine, on which Scopoli founded 
his Columba chinensis; and he adds plate 22—the number of Sonnerat’s plate (in the 
‘Voyage a la Nouvelle Guinée’) which represents Columba cinerea, Scopoli'. ‘There 
is no plate numbered 22 in the second volume of the ‘ Voyage aux Indes.’ Having 
thus confounded the two species, the Prince adds China as a habitat of Columba 
cinerea. Previously the Prince had stated (Compt. Rend. xl. p. 16) that he considered 
C. miniata, Temm., =C. cinerea, Scop. It is difficult to decide from what species 
Sonnerat described his Grande Tourterelle de la Chine. On reading Temminck’s 
diagnosis (/.c.) of Columba miniata it is obvious that he copied from Sonnerat. Together 
with its size (Sonnerat says that it isas large as a Wood-pigeon), the colouring described 
is inconsistent with any known Chinese species of Dove. 
La Tourterelle brine de la Chine, Sonn. Voy. aux Indes, ii. p. 177, on which Latham 
founded his Columba orientalis (Ind. Orn. ii. p. 606), is Turtur gelastes, Temm. & 
Schlegel. 
Mr. Blyth (Ibis, 1870, p. 173) mentions having observed in the Leyden Museum 
a Dove labelled Columba turtur, from the Philippines, “like 7. awritus, but darker, 
the black predominating on the upper parts; lower tail-coverts white.” Can this be 
Columba cinerea? 
1 Prince Bonaparte (J. c.) also misquotes Vieillot; for he refers to N. Dict. xxvi. p. 312; whereas C. miniata, 
Temm., occurs at p. 368, and Columba cinerea is treated by Vieillot as a separate species at p. 381, although 
partly misquoting Sonnerat’s French title. 
