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their coverts dusky, and the secondaries greyish- dusky. Irides dark 

 brown ; bill black ; and legs purplish-red. Length nine inches and 

 a half ; and of wing five and a quarter. Female rather smaller. The 

 young nearly resemble the adults of T. risorius, except in their much 

 smaller size, their general darker colour, especially upon the head, and 

 in wholly wanting the vinaceous tinge : in this state of plumage, they 

 doubtless constitute the supposed small race of T. risorius, mentioned 

 by Major Franklin. 



The Red Turtle-dove is generally diffused over the country, though 

 much less numerously than the grey one. It also keeps more to 

 cover, frequenting groves and high thick hedges. Its coo is short and 

 grunt- like. 



T. senegalensis : Col. senegalensis, Lin. : C. cambaiensis, Gmelin , 

 C. cegyptiaca, Latham; C.maculicollis, Wagler: — figured, but not well, 

 and much over-coloured, in Denon's Egypt. (Tortroo Fachtah, RindJ 

 (Necklaced Turtle-dove.) Brown above, the wing-coverts (except to- 

 wards the scapularies) pure light grey ; winglet, primaries and their 

 coverts, dusky, the secondaries tinged with grey ; head, upper-part of neck, 

 and breast, pinkish-vinaceous, paling below, and passing to white on the 

 belly and lower tail- coverts ; the sides of the neck anteriorly (and meeting 

 imperfectly in front,) adorned with a large patch of furcate feathers, 

 black at base, with a round rufous spot on each tip : in the living bird, 

 these hardly appear at all when the neck is drawn in ; and unlike the 

 preceding species, there is no bar or other marking on the nape : 

 tail graduated to the depth of an inch, and its feathers attenuate a little 

 towards their tips ; the middle tail-feathers are brown ; the rest white 

 for the terminal half or nearly so, and black for the remainder. Irides 

 dark with a white inner circle ; bill blackish ; and legs lake-red. Length 

 ten inches or ten and a half, by fourteen inches ; closed wing five inches. 



This delicate little species abounds in most parts of the peninsula, 

 also in Western and Upper India generally, and it inhabits the Rajmehal 

 and Monghyr hills in Bengal ; but in Lower Bengal, I have never 

 seen or heard of it wild, nor does it appear to occur in the Himalaya, 

 or in the countries to the eastward. In the peninsula, according 

 to Mr. Jerdon, "it abounds both in low jungles, and near villages and 

 cantonments, being found especially towards the north in every garden, 



