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must be kept apart, as they are most certainly specifically distinct. Count Salvadori does not 

 include T. senegalensis, but only T. cambayensis, as found in Turkey ; but there is no doubt that 

 both species occur thei - e, as I have a specimen obtained by Mr. Pearse at Turballi which, though 

 not quite adult, has the rump as blue as in typical T. senegalensis. I am, however, afraid that 

 I must blame myself for this omission on the part of Count Salvadori, as I am not sure that he 

 saw the specimen in question. I have not been able to examine a specimen from Greece, but, 

 judging from the description given by Count von der Miihle (Orn. Griechenl. p. 83), the present 

 species does not occur, Turtur senegalensis being the only one found there. It is not impossible 

 that both forms may occur in Asia Minor, but the present species is certainly found there, as 

 there is a specimen in the British Museum obtained by Mr. C. G. Danford at Aintab. Dr. Kriiper 

 records a Turtle-Dove as common and breeding at Smyrna and Axari, which is probably the 

 present species, but I have not been able to procure one from there for examination. It is, 

 according to Messrs. Kadde and Walter (Vog. Transcasp. p. 83), a resident in the eastern part of 

 Transcaspia, and is restricted to the cultivated zone of Buchara, on the left bank of the Amu- 

 Darja. They obtained a male on the 20th March, 1887, not far from Tschardshui, and I may 

 add that I received a specimen from Tashkend through Mr. NazarofF. Messrs. Radde and Walter 

 say that it is respected by the Bucharans, and has consequently become quite domesticated. It 

 breeds in the walls below the roofs and in the galleries of the dwelling-houses, and goes about 

 half-tame with the poultry in the yards. On the 20th March they found a female already 

 sitting on her eggs. Dr. Sharpe records the present species from Fao, in the Persian Gulf; but 

 Mr. Blanford did not meet with it in Persia, though it is probably the Turtle-Dove he refers to 

 as included by Eichwald, and which, he says, inhabits the west shore of the Caspian from Persia 

 to Astrachan. 



Col. Swinhoe records it (Ibis, 1882, p. 117) as common throughout the year in Afghanistan. 

 It commences breeding in the latter end of February, and he took two eggs on the 22nd and 

 caught a half-fledged young one on the 20th March. It is, he adds, very common in the city 

 of Kandahar, and makes its nest in the holes in mud walls. Col. Biddulph and Mr. Scully each 

 obtained one in Gilgit, where it appears to be uncommon. Dr. Severtzoff records it from 

 Turkestan ; Russoff obtained it in Tschinas, and it was observed in the Western Tian-shan. 



According to Dr. Jerdon the present species is found throughout the greater part of India, 

 not occurring in Ceylon, Malabar, or Lower Bengal, nor in the countries to the eastwards, but 

 very abundant in Central, and especially in Western, India, also in Sind and the Punjab. 

 Mr. Blanford found it in Baluchistan, where it appears to be common. 



In its habits the present species does not appear to differ from T. senegalensis. In India it 

 is, according to Dr. Jerdon, "a very familiar bird, entering gardens and feeding on public roads, 

 and close to houses and stables, without any alarm ; but it is also very abundant in all low 

 bushy jungles. It breeds in Southern India at various times ; and Hutton records that it visits 

 Mussooree in April, remaining to breed, and departing again in autumn. Its coo, says Blyth, is 

 low, subdued, and musical, a dissyllabic sound, repeated four or five times successively, and of 

 which its Hindustani and Tamil names are a sort of imitation." Like its congeners it makes a 

 very scanty nest, and deposits two pure white eggs. I have in my collection eggs from different 



