COLUMBID^ TUETUR 167 



Key of the Species. 



A. With a black collar on the hind neck. 



a. Larger, wing over 7'0; outer tail-feathers 

 with a terminal band of grey. 



a^. Under tail-ooverts grey T. seinitorquata,-p. WT. 



V. Under tail-ooverts grey, margined with 



white T. amhiguus, p. 168. 



6. Smaller, wing under 6'0 ; outer web of the 

 outer taU-feathers with a broad terminal 

 band of white. 



a'. Forehead and breast darker T. capicola, p. 169. 



6'. Forehead and breast paler, almost 



white T. capicola 



damarensis, p. 171. 



B. Black collar on the hind neck replaced by a 

 series of bifid feathers with rufous tips and 

 black bases on the sides and front of the 



neck T. senegalensis, p. 172. 



634. Turtur semitorquatus. Bed-eyed Dove. 



Columba semitorquata, Biippell, Neiie Wirbelth. Vog. p. 66, pi. 23, fig. 

 2 (1835). 



Turtur erythrophrys, Swadns., B. W. Afr. ii, p. 207, pi. 22 (1837) 

 Gurneij, Ibis, 1862, p. 152 [Natal]. 



Turtur vinaceus (nee Gmel.) Layard, B. 8. Afr. p. 259 (1867). 



Streptopelia semitorquata, Ourney, in Andersson's B. Damaral. p. 234 

 (1872). 



Turtur semitorquatus, Shelley, Ibis, 1882, p. 359 [Umfuli Eiver] 

 Eolub Sr Pelzeln, Orn. Siid-Afr. p. 175 (1882) ; Shelley, Ibis, 1883, 

 p. 303; Sharpe, ed. Layard's B. 8. Afr. p. 566 (1884); Salvadori, 

 Cat. B. M. xxi, p. 416 (1893) ; Flech, -lourn. Ornith. 1894, p. 389 ; 

 Shelley, B. Afr. i, p. 136 (1896) ; Woodivard Bros. Natal B. p. 131 

 (1899) ; Marshall Ibis, 1900, p. 261 ; Alexander, Ibis, 1900, p. 428 ; 

 Beichenow, Vog. Afr. i, p. 409 (1901) ; Shortridge, Ibis, 1904, p. 201. 



" Ihobe " of the Zulus (Woodward). 



Description. Adult Male. — Forehead and crown grey, shading 

 into pale pink on the cheeks and nape; this is followed by a very 

 distinct black half collar ; rest of the upper surface pale brown, the 

 greater wing-coverts and rump with a more bluish tinge, the wing- 

 quills darker brown, the concealed bases of the tail-feathers almost 

 black ; below pinky-grey, becoming almost white on the chin and 

 bluish-grey on the flanks, under wing-coverts, abdomen and under 

 tail-coverts ; tail with the basal two-thirds black, the apical third 

 bluish-white. 



