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TURTUK KISOEIUS. 



(COLLARED TURTLE DOVE.) 



Cohimba turtur torquatus, Briss. Orn. i. p. 95 (1760). 



Colwnba risoria, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 285 (1766). 



La Tourterelle a collier, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. ii. p. 550, pi. xxvi. (1771). 



Turtur douraca, Hodgs. in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 85 (1844). 



Turtur risorius (L.), Layard, Ann. Nat. Hist. xiv. p. 59 (1854). 



Peristera risoria (L.), C. L. Brehm, Vogelfang, p. 257 (1855, partim). 



Streptopelia risoria (L.), Bp. Consp. Gen. Av. ii. p. 65 (1857). 



Turtur intercedens, Finsch & Hartl. Yog. Ost-Afr. p. 545 (1870, nee Brehm). 



Turtur stoliczkce, Hume, Stray Feathers, ii. p. 519 (1874). 



Ad. capite et collo canescenti-vinaceis, pileo magis cano lavato, fronte albicante : fascia colli postici nigra, albo 

 marginata : corpore et alis supra pallide et obsolete fuscis, uropygii lateribus scbistaceo-canis : remigi- 

 bus primariis nigro-fuscis, secundariis schistaceo-canis, versus apicem fusco lavatis : marginibus alarum 

 cseruleo-canis : rectricibus centralibus dorso concoloribus, reliquis ad basin caeruleo-canis, versus apicem 

 pallide canis et albo terminatis : pectore vinaceo, abdomine imo et subcaudalibus scbistaceo-canis, 

 hypocbondriis cinereo-cseruleo lavatis : subalaribus albis : cauda subtiis ad basin nigra, et in parte 

 apicali alba : rostro nigricante : pedibus saturate rosaceo-rubris : iride coccinea. 



Juv. ubique sordidior, minus vinaceo et magis cinereo-fusco coloratus, fascia collari nulla. 



Adult Male (Palestine). Head, neck, and breast ligbt greyisb vinous, tbe crown more tinged with blue- 

 grey ; back, scapulars, inner wing-coverts, inner secondaries, and rump dusty brown, becoming rich 

 dove-blue on tbe sides of the rump; primaries blackish brown, becoming ashy blue at the base; 

 secondaries dark dove-blue, washed with brown at the tip; edge of the wing, including the outer 

 wing-coverts, dove-blue ; central tail-feathers coloured like the back, the rest dark ashy blue at the 

 base, then light blue-grey, fading to white towards the tip ; a tolerably broad black collar margined 

 with white passes from the hind neck half round ; underparts pale vinous, becoming deep dove-blue on 

 the lower abdomen and under tail-coverts, these last being uniform in colour ; flanks washed with blue- 

 grey ; under wing-coverts white, tinged with dove-blue towards the edge of the wing; under surface of 

 the tail blackish on the basal and white on the terminal portion ; bill black ; feet dark pinkish red ; 

 orbital skin whitish; iris crimson. Total length about 12'5 inches, culmen 0'8, wing 7"15, tail 5*7, 

 tarsus 095. 



Adult Female (Palestine) . Undistinguishable from the male. 



Young Male (Haskeuy, Turkey). Differs from the adult in being much duller in colour, the vinous colora- 

 tion being more ashy brown in tinge ; the light ending to the tail is smaller ; and there is only an 

 indication of the collar on the hind neck. 



This species, which probably is the parent stock of the domestic Turtle Dove, inhabits Southern 

 Asia, Japan, China, India, &c, ranging westward into Palestine, Asia Minor, and Turkey in 



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