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TURTUK OKIENTALIS. 



(ASIATIC TURTLEDOVE.) 



La Tourterelle brune de la Chine, Sonn. Voy. Ind. Orient, ii. p. 177(1782). 



Columba orientals, Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 606 (1790, ex Sonn.). 



Columba ruficola, Pall. Zoogr. Eosso-As. i. p. 566 (1811). 



Columba pulchrata, Hodgs. in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 85 (1831). 



Columba meena, Sykes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1832, p. 149. 



Columba agricola, Tickell, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. ii. p. 581 (1833). 



Columba gelastis, Temm. Nouv. Pec. PL Col. pi. 550 (1838). 



Columba ferrago, Eversm. Add. ad Zoogr. Eosso-As. iii. p. 17(1842). 



Turtur meena (Sykes), Gray, Gen. of B. ii. p. 472 (1844). 



Columba (Turtur) gelastes, Temm. & Schl. Fauna Japonica, p. 100, pi. 60 b (1854). 



Turtur rupicola (Pall.), Bp. Coup d'ceil sur l'ordre des Pig. p. 29 (1855). 



Columba vitticollis major, Temm. fide Bp. Consp. Gen. Av. ii. p. 60 (1857). 



Columba vitticollis minor, Temm. fide Bp. ut supra (1857). 



Turtur orientalis (Lath.), Swinhoe, Ibis, 1860, p. 63. 



Turtur vitticollis (Temm.), A. O. Hume in Henderson's 'Lahore to Yarkand,' p. 274 (1873). 



Figures notabiles. 

 Sonnerat, I. c. ; Temm. PI. Col. 550 ; Temm. & Schl. Fauna Japonica, pi. 60 b; Knip, Pig. 

 ii. pi. 27; Sv. Jag. Nya Tidsk. v. pi. to p. 250. 



Ad. T. vulgari similis sed major et saturatius eoloratus : fronte cana, occipite fusco-plunibeo, gula albida. : 

 corpore supra saturate fusco-cinereo : tectricibus alarum et scapularibus rufescenti marginatis : uropygio 

 saturate schistaceo : rectricibus centralibus brunnescentibus, reliquis apice cano-cinereis, extima utrinque 

 pogonio externo etiam albo-cano : jugulo pectoreque fusco-rufescentibus, abdomine centrali rosaeeo- 

 vinaceo, subcaudalibus cano-einereis : collo utrinque plumis nigris, apice lunulis caesio-cserulescentibus : 

 rostro purpurascente : pedibus rubris : iride rubra. 



Adult Male (Japan). Resembles Turtur vulgaris, but is larger and much darker in coloration ; the forehead 

 is dark ashy blue ; but the rest of the head, sides of the neck, and upper parts are ashy brown, and the 

 margins to the wing-coverts and scapulars are richer and deeper rufous ; rump deep slate-blue ; tail as 

 in Turtur vulgaris, but the white portion is replaced by pale ashy grey ; chin yellowish white ; rest of 

 the underparts brownish vinous, becoming rosy vinous on the centre of the abdomen; the black 

 feathers on the sides of the neck are tipped with pale ashy blue instead of white; the under tail-coverts 

 are ashy grey; bill purplish; iris red; legs coral-red. Total length about 13 inches, culmen 0-8, 

 gape - 95, wing 7 - 5, tail 5 - 7, tarsus 1*1. 



This eastern representative of our common Turtledove inhabits Asia as far east as Japan, and is 

 only known in Europe as an exceedingly rare straggler. According to Professor Easch two 



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