(38) STREPTOPELIA TURTUR MEENA (Sykes). 



THE INDIAN RUFOUS TURTLE-DOVE or SYKES'S TURTLE-DOVE. 



(Plate 20.) 



Columba orientaUs Lath., Ind. Orn., II p. 606 (1790). 



Columba meena ? Sykes, P.Z.S. 1832, p. 149 (Dukhan). 



Columba agricola Tickell, J.A.S.B., II p. 581 (1833). 



Columba gelastis Temm., PI. Col., pi. 550 (1835). 



Turtur meena Gray, Gen. B., II p. 472 ; Blyth, J.A.S.B., XIV p. 875 ; Jerdon, 

 B.I., III p. 476 ; Godw.-Aus., J.A.S.B., XXXIX pt. 2, p. 272 ; Hume, 

 Lah. to Yark., p. 277 ; id., Nests and Eggs, p. 501 ; id., Str. Peath., 

 ni p. 163 ; Blyth and Wald., B. Burma, p. 146 ; Pairbank, Str. Peath., 

 IV p. 262 ; Anders., Yun-nan Exp., Aves, p. 665 ; Hume and Dav., 

 Str. Peath., VI p. 420 ; Davidson and Wend., ib., VII p. 86 ; Ball, ib., 

 p. 224 ; Cripps, ib., p. 296 ; Hume, ib., VIII p. 110 ; id., Cat. no. 793 ; 

 Vidal, Str. Peath., IX p. 74 ; Butler, ib., p. 420 ; Gates, ib., X p. 235 ; 

 id., B. Burma, II p. 292 ; Barnes, B. Bom., p. 290 ; Hume, Str. Peath., 

 XI p. 298 ; Gates, in Hume's Nests and Eggs, 2nd ed., II p. 350 ; Barnes, 

 J.B.N.H.S., Vp. 330 ; Stuart Baker, ib., X p. 360 ; Inglis, ib., XI p. 474. 



Turtur orientaUs Blyth, J.A.S.B., XIV p. 876 ; Anders., Yun-nan Exp., 

 Aves, p. 666 ; Hutton, J. A.S.B., XVII pt. 2, p. 13 • Salvadori, Cat. B.M., 

 XXI p. 403 (part) ; Blanf., Avi. Brit. I., IV p. 40 (part) ; Sharpe, 

 Hand-List, I p. 78 (part) ; Gates, Cat. Eggs B.M., I p. 95 (part) ; Inglis, 

 J.B.N.H.S., XVI p. 73; Macdonald, ib., XVII p. 496; Stuart Baker, 

 ib., p. 971 ; Mears, ib., XVIII p. 86 ; Harington, ib., XIX p. 309 ; id. ib., 

 XX p. 1010 ; D'Abreu, ib., XXI p. 1167 ; Hopwood, ib., p. 1214. 



Columba rujncola Adams, Str. Peath., I p. 390. 



Vernacular Names. Kala fakhta, Basko fakhta, Hin. ; Sam ghughu. 

 Ram ghughu, Beng. ; Yedrupoda guwa, Tel. ; Daotu gajao, Cachari ; Puho, 

 Assamese ; Inruiku, Naga. ; Vohgura, Kuki. 



Description. — Adult mnle. Whole head and neck reddish-vinous, 

 paler on the sides and palest on the chin ; the crown is often tinged with bluish- 

 grey which sometimes extends to the fore-head ; a patch of black feathers 

 on either side of the neck, each feather edged with silvery-grey, this colour 

 disposed in regular lines ; upper-back brown, the feathers often edged with 

 rufous and sometimes almost wholly of this colour and tinged ^^dth vinous ; 

 lower-back and rump slaty-grey with dark centres, sometimes concealed 

 sometimes showing distinctly ; upper tail-coverts and central rectrices dark 

 brown, faintly tipped paler ; outer rectrices almost black, broadly tipped with 

 pale grey, and with the outermost greyish-white on the outer-web also. 

 Scapulars, inner wing-coverts and inner secondaries dark brown with broad 

 ferruginous borders ; outer median wing-coverts and greater coverts dark 



