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42. Columba riforia, Lin. Syfl. L p. 285. N° 33.— Scop, am. I. p. 125. N° 182. 



COLLARED T« _ Fri/cb. t. 14 i. 



La Touterslle a Collier, Brif. orn. i. p. 95. N° 8. — Buf. oif. ii. p. 55a.' 



pL z6. — P/. *»A. 244. 

 Turtur indicus Aldrov. Rail Syn. p. 61. N° 3. 

 Indian Turtle, Will. orn. p. 184. — Albin. iii. pi. 45. 



Lev. Muf. 



Description. r T^ H IS is a trifle bigger than the lafh The bill is blackifli : 

 irides fine red : the upper parts of the head and neck, the 

 back, and wing coverts, are of a rufous or reddifh white, nearly 

 cream-colour : the fore part of the neck and breafl: white, with a 

 vinaceous tinge : the reft of the under parts white : the rump is 

 greyifli brown : the quills the fame, with whitifli edges : tail ci- 

 nereous j the two middle feathers plain j the others tipped with 

 white ; and the outer one white on the outer edge : the hind 

 part of the neck marked with a collar of black feathers : the legs 

 are red : the claws brown. 

 Female. The female differs from the male in having the colours lefs 



vivid, and inclines to grey. 

 Place. This inhabits India ; but is a bird common to France-, and 



other parts of the European continent * : but I do not hear of it 

 at large in England. 



* Some think as far as Sweden; but I think Linnaus's words do not juiKfy 

 this. He fays, " Habitat in India, nobis communis Turtur;" by which I fhould 

 think he only means, that it is every where kept in cages, as with us in 

 England. It is not mentioned in his Fauna Suecica. 



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