220 VISCOUNT WALDEN ON THE BIEDS 



Dr. Meyer notes the colour of the feet and nails as being grey, and of the bill as 

 slate-colour. 



La Tourterelle cendree de I'isle de Lugon, Sonn. Voy. Nouv. Guin. p. 52, pi. 22. 

 Coliimba cinm-ea, Sco]i. Del. Fl. Faun. Insubr. ii. p. 94, no. 93 (1786), ex Sonn.; 

 nee Scop. ap. Bp. Consp. ii. p. 61. 



Turtur hizoniensis, Gm. S. N. i. p. 786, no. 32 Tiirtur, var. S (1788), ex Sonn. 

 Columha phoenicorhyncha, 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 uo other locality. I can find no 

 evidence of any species agreeing vfith Sonnerat's description having been found in the 

 Philippines since Sonnerat wrote. The diagnosis agrees fairly with Columha picturata, 

 Tenim., from which bird Sonnerat probably took his description. 



Bonaparte {I. c.) confounded two, if not three, distinct species of the genus Turtur 

 described by Sonnerat, under Scopoli's title of Golumba cinerea. The description given 

 by Bonaparte (/. c.) 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 (/rise 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 Guinee') which represents Columha 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 obidous that he copied from Sonnerat. Together 

 with its size (Sonnerat says that it is as large as a Wood-pigeon), the colouring described 

 is inconsistent with any known Chinese species of Dove. 



La Tourterelle brune 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 T. auritus, but darker, 

 the black predominating on the upper parts ; lower tail-coverts white." Can this be 

 Columba cinereal 



' Prince Bonaparte (I. c.) also misquotes Vieillot ; for he refers to N. Diet. xxvi. p. 312 ; whereas C. miniata, 

 Temm., occurs at p. 368, and Columba cinerea is treated by VieDIot as a separate species at p. 381, although 

 partly misquoting Sonnerat's French title. 



