(4i) STREPTOPELIA SURATENSIS SURATENSIS (Gm.). 

 THE SPOTTED DOVE. 



Colum^a suratensis Gm., Syst. Nat., I p. 778, no. 48 (1788); Lath., Ind. Orn., 

 II p. 609. 



Columba tigrina (part) Temm. ; Pig. et Gall., I pp. 317, 481 (1813). 



Turtur vitticolUs Hodg., in Gray's Zool. Misc., p. 85 (descr. nulla). 



Turtur suratensis Strick., P.Z.S. 1842, p. 168 ; BIyth, J.A.S.B., XIV, 2nd pt 

 p. 874 (part) ; id., Cat. M.A.S.B., p. 236 ; id., J.A.S.B., XXIV p. 263 ; 

 Jerdon, B.I., in p. 479 ; Stoliczka, J.A.S.B., XXXVII pt. 2 p. 67 • 

 Godw-Aus., ib., XXXIX pt. 2 p. 112 ; Hume, Str. Feath., I p. 218 ' 

 Adam, ib., p. 390 ; Ball, ib., II p. 425 ; Hume and Butler, ib., IV p. 3 • 

 id.. Nests and Eggs, p. 504 ; Pairbank, Str. Peath., IV p. 262 ; id. ib., 

 V p. 409; Hume and Bourd., ib., VII p. 39; Day. and Wend., ib., 

 p. 86 ; Ball, ib., p. 224 ; Cripps, ib., p. 297 ; Hume, ib., VIII p. 110 ; 

 id.. Cat. no. 795 ; Scully, Str. Peath., VIII p. 341 ; Vidal, ib., IX p. 75 ; 

 Butler, ib., p. 420 ; Legge, B. Cey., p. 705 ; Eeid, Str. Peath., X p. 60 ; 

 Dav., lb., p. 408 ; Barnes, B. Bom., p. 291 ; Hume, Str. Peath., XI 

 p. 298 ; Gates, in Hume's Nests and Eggs, 2nd ed., II p. 353 ; Sharpe, 

 Yarkand Misc. Av., p. 119; Salvadori, Cat. B.M., XXI p. 444; Blanf., 

 Avi. Brit. I., IV p. 43 ; Barnes, J.B.N.H.S., V p. 331 ; Butler, ib., X 

 p. 310 ; Inglis, ib., XI p. 474 ; id. ib., XIV p. 562 ; Bourdillon, XVI 

 p. 3 ; Pulton, ib., p. 60 ; Ward, ib., XVII p. 943 ; Stuart Baker, ib., 

 p. 971; Magrath, ib., XIX p. 155; Perreau, ib., p. 919; Moss-King, 

 ib., XXI p. 99 ; Whitehead, ib., p. 167 ; D'Abreu, ib., p. 1167 ; Dewar, 

 Birds of the Plains, p. 124. 



Spilopelia suratensis Sharpe, Hand-List, I p. 80 ; Gates, Cat. Eggs B.M., 

 I p. 99. 



Vernacular Names. Chitroka fakhta, Chitta fakhta, Perlci, Chitla, Kangs- 

 kiri, Panduk, Hin. ; Chaval ghughu, Telia ghughu, Bengali ; Kawala, Mahr. 

 Bode, Gond. ; Powari, Marie Gond. ; Poda-bella-guwa, Tel. ; Puli-pora, Tamil 

 Mani-praa, Tam. Ceylon ; Kdbeya, Allikoheya, Cing. ; Ku-po-hu, Assamese 

 Kodaya punduk, Behari ; Daotu, Cachari ; Inruigu, Naga. ; Vohkurup, Kuki 



Description- — Adult male. Upper portion of head and nape vinous, 

 more grey on the fore-head and often also above the eye ; a small spot or 

 streak of black between the eye and base of bill ; a demi-collar on back and 

 sides of neck of black feathers, bifurcate and with two white spots at the 

 tip ; on the upper-back the feathers gradually change from the rich velvety- 

 black to brown, and the spots from pure white to rufous ; the bifurcations 

 become less pronounced and cease on the lower-back where the spots 

 become narrow terminal bars ; lower-back and rump brown with narrow 

 rufous fringes ; upper tail-coverts slaty-brown, bifurcated and tipped narrowly 



