TUETUE CAMBAYENSIS. 



(INDIAN TURTLE-DOVE.) 



Tourterelle grise de Surate, Sonner. Voy. Ind. ii. p. 180 (1782). 



Cambayan Turtle, Lath. Syn. ii. pt. 2, p. 652 (1783). 



Columha cambayensis, Gmel. Syst. Nat. ii. p. 779 (1788, ex Lath.). 



Columba cegyptiaca (nee Lath.), Licht. in Eversm. Eeise nach Buchara, p. 133 (1823). 



Peristera cambayensis (Gm.), Boie, Isis, 1828, p. 327. 



Turtur ermanni, Bp. Compt. Rend, xliii. p. 942 (1856). 



Turtur cambayensis (Gm.), Bp. Consp. Gen. Av. ii. p. 62 (1857). 



Stigmatopelia cambayensis (Gm.), Sundev. Tent. p. 100 (1872). 



Streptopelia cegyptiaca (nee Lath.), Severtzoff, J. f. O. 1875, p. 180. 



Turtur senegalensis (nee Linn.), Sclater & Taylor, Ibis, 1876, p. 62 ; Dresser, B. of Eur. vii. 



p. 55 (1876, partim) ; Sharpe, 2nd Yark. Miss., Aves, p. 118 (1891). 

 Peristera senegalensis (nee Linn.), Radde & Walter, Vog. Transcasp. p. 83 (1888). 



Tortru-fachta, Hindu; Chitti-bella-guwa and Sowata-guwa, Tel.; Touta-porah, Tarn, (fide 

 Jerdon). 



Figura nulla. 



Ad. T. senegalensi similis, sed corpore supra cum uropygio pallide et sordide fusco, hoc nee cseruleo : capite, 

 collo et pectore vinaceis, mento et gula pallidioribus : tectricibus alarum pallide cinereo-cseruleis : 

 abdomine centraliter cum crisso et subcaudalibus albis. 



Adult Female (Constantinople). Upper parts, including the rump, pale, dull earth-brown; most of the 

 wing-coverts pale ashy blue; head, neck, and breast vinous, the chin and throat paler; centre of the 

 abdomen, vent, and under tail-coverts white ; otherwise similar to Turtur senegalensis. Total length 

 about 11 inches, culmen 0'75, wing 5'7, tail 5 - 0, tarsus 0'82. 



Young Female (Constantinople). Upper parts paler and duller than in the adult, the wing-coverts less blue ; 

 throat dull white, rest of the underparts pale buffy earth-brown without any vinous tinge, dull white 

 on the abdomen, vent, and under tail-coverts ; the black collar is absent, and some of the feathers on 

 the lower neck have narrow pale margins. 



When I wrote the article on Turtur senegalensis in the ' Birds of Europe ' (vii. p. 55) in 1876 I 

 had not had an opportunity of examining any specimen from Europe, but since then I have 

 received, in a small collection made by Mr. Pearse in Constantinople, several small Turtle- Doves 

 labelled T. senegalensis, which, on comparison, I find to be, as stated by Count Salvadori (to whom 

 I lent them for the British Museum Catalogue, as they had no European specimens in the National 

 Collection), undistinguishable from Turtur cambayensis from India. In 1876 I united these two 

 species, but subsequently, when I had an opportunity of examining a series, I found that they 



