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GENUS TURTUR Selby. 



Plumage chieliy brown and grey. Tail of 1 2 feathers, rounded or graduated. 

 Wing moderate, primaries fairly normal in shape. Bill delicate, shorter than the 

 cranium. 



The Celebes species belongs to the subgenus Spilopelia, in which the feathers 

 of the black cervical collar are bifid, the double tip being white. 



Turtur is an old World genus; Spilopelia is found from Afghanistan, Yarkand 

 and the Himalayas east as far as China, and south to the Moluccas. 



-h 278. TURTUR TIGRINUS (Temin. Kn.). 



Barbary Dove. 



a. Columba tigrina (I) Temm. & Knip, Pig. I, 1808—11, pi. 43; (2) Sclil, Haiidl. Dierk. 



1857, 404. 



b. Turtur ehinensis (1) Wall, (nee Scop.), Ibis 1860, 147. 



Turtur tigrinus (1) Blyth, J. A. S. B. 1855, XXIV, 263, 480; (II) Eclib., Taubeii 1862, 

 72, 174, t. 246, figs. 1361—62; (3) Ball, Str. F.[1873,'I, 80; (4) Schl., Mus. P.-B., 

 Columbae, 1873, 127; (5) Briiggem., Abh. Ver. Bremen 1876, V, 87; (6) Boseub., 

 Malay. Arcliip. 1878, 275; (7) Legge, B. Ceylon 1880, 706; (8) Hume, Str. F. 

 IX, 1880, 258; (9) Kelh., Ibis 1881, 528; (10) Bock, Ibis 1882, 475; (11) A. Mull., 

 J. f. 0. 1882, 431; (12) Gates, B. Br. Burmah 1883, IE, 290; (13) Vorderm., N. 

 T. Ned. Ind. 1884, XLIV, 228; (14) Hume, Str. F. 1888, XI, 299; (15) Hartert, 

 J. f. 0. 1889, 347, 376; (16) Hickson, Nat. in N. Celebes 1889, 94; (17) Hagen, 

 T. Ned. Aard. Genoots. 1890 (2) VH, 156; (18) Gates ed. Hume's Nests & Eggs 

 Ind. B. 1890, H, 356; (19) Hose, Ibis 1893, 420; (20) Salvad., Cat. B. XXI, 1893, 

 440; (21) Everett, Ibis 1895, 32; (22) Vorderm., N. T. Ned. Ind. 1895, LIV, 351; 

 (23) M. &Wg., Abh. Mus. Dresd. 1895, Nr.8, p. 15; (24) iid., ib. 1896, Nr. l,p. 14; 

 (25) Hart., Nov. Zool. 1896, 163, 554, 564, 573, 589, 598; (26) id., ib. 1897, 165. 



c. Metriopelia inornata (Gray) , (1) Bp., Consp. H, 1854, 76. 



d. Turtur tigrina (1) Wall., P. Z. S. 1863, 486; (2) id., Ibis 1865, 391, 399; (3) Wald., 



Tr. Z. S. Vm, 1872, 85; (4) Hume, Str. F. 1874, H, 269; (5) id., ib. 1875, HI, 

 164; (6) Armstr., ib. 1876, IV, 337; (7) Hume, t. c. 424, note; (8) Hume & 

 Davison, Str. F. 1878, VI, 442; (9) Meyer, Ibis 1879, 137; (10) Everett, J. Str. Br. 

 R. A. 8. 1889, 193; (11) Wbitebd., Ibis 1890, 57. 



e. Spilopelia tigrina (1) Sundev., Tentamen 1872, 100; (2) Salvad., Cat. Ucc. Borneo 1874, 



296; (3) id., Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. 1875, VTI, 673; (4) Meyer, Verb. z.-b. Ges. Wien 

 1881, 766, 769, 772; (5) Salvad., Gm. Pap. 1882, IH, 151; (6) W. Bias., J. f. G. 1883 

 139; (7) Meyer, Ztscbr. ges. Orn. 1884, 194, 215; (7>''') id., Isis, Dresden 1884, 52; 

 I^S; W.Blas., Z. g. G. 1885, 310; (9) Guillem., P. Z. S. 1885, 510, 558; (10) Fluten, 

 Gefied. Welt 1887, 205; (11) Biittik., Notes Leyd. Mus. 1887, IX, 76; (12) Vorderm., 

 N. T. Ned. Ind. 1890, L, 508; (13) id.. Notes Leyd. Mus. 1891, XIH, 129; (14) 

 Salvad., Agg. Gm. Pap. 1891, 189; (15) id., Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. 1891, (2) XH, 35; 

 (16) Biittik., Zool. Erg. Weber's Beise in Gst-Iml. 1893, HI, 305; (17) Vorderm., 

 N. T. Ned. Ind. 1893, LH, 203. 



"Terknku", Malay and Alfurous, Minahassa, Meyer d 9, Guillem. e 9, Nat. Coll 



"Tarkuku", Minahassa, Biarro, TagvUandang, Siao, Nat. Coll. 



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