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transverse scutella, the planta tarsi with small hexagonal, rather 

 indistinct, scales; lateral toes decidedly shorter than middle toe, 

 their claws falling short of base of middle claw; hallux relatively- 

 short, but little longer than basal phalanx of middle toe. 



Plumage and coloration. — Plumage soft, with velvety surface, that 

 of head, neck, and under parts blended; bare orbital space rather 

 large, continued anteriorly in a narrow strip, across lores to rictus. 

 Upper parts plain buffy brown, purplish brown, or brown and gray, 

 relieved by a black bar across nape, margined above (sometimes 

 below also) by a narrow line of white or gray; under paits more or 

 less vinaceous, sometimes with posterior portions more or less white. 



Range,. — Africa, southeastern Europe, southern Asia, Japan, Indo- 

 Malayan Archipelago, etc. (About fourteen species.) 



STREPTOPELIA RISORIA (Linnaeus). 

 KINGED TURTLE DOVE. 



Adult male. — Pileum and nape vinaceous-buff to tilleul-buff ; across 

 the upper hindneck a narrow band of black, narrowly margined along, 

 upper edge by white; hindneck, back scapulars, wing-coverts, and 

 proximal secondaries plain avellaneous to dull light cinnamon, the 

 rump similar but duller, passing into light buffy drab or drab-gray 

 on upper tail-coverts and middle rectrices; alulae, primary coverts, 

 primaries, and distal secondaries drab, light drab, or grayish drab, 

 indistinctly edged with paler; under parts, including axillars and 

 under wing-coverts, pale vinaceous-buff or dull pinkish buff, fading 

 into buffy white on chin and under tail-coverts and on sides of head 

 gradually deepening into color of ^pileum; lateral rectrices buffy 

 white terminally, grayish drab basally, the whitish tip becoming 

 gradually broader to the outermost rectrix, on which it occupies 

 about half the inner web and the whole of outer web; bill blackish or 

 dark horn color; iris orange; legs and feet pinkish red or light lake 

 red; length (skin), 272; wing, 161-162.5(161.7); tail, 112-115 (113.5); 

 exposed culmen, 14.5-16.5 (15.5); tarsus, 20.5-22 (21.2); middle toe, 

 23-24 (23.5) . a 



Adult female. — Similar to the male in coloration, but slightly 

 smaller; length (skin), 293; wing, 154; tail, 112; exposed culmen, 

 13; tarsus, 21.5; middle toe, 24. 6 



Native country unknown, but domesticated nearly throughout the 

 world. Introduced into and naturalized in Cuba, Haiti, Jamaica, 

 and St. Bartholomew. (Of the wild species, this bird most nearly 



o Two specimens. & One specimen, not sexed, but probably a female. 



