874 Drafts for a Fauna Indica. [No. 168. 



and frequenting stable-yards, houses, &c." Like T. risorius, it is 

 common to India and North Africa; and Mr. Strickland states, that 

 it "inhabits the Turkish burial-grounds at Smyrna and Constantinople, 

 which are dense forests of cypress-trees. It is strictly protected by 

 the Turks, and it was with some difficulty," he adds, " that I could 

 obtain a specimen. It was perhaps originally introduced there by man ; 

 but now seems completely naturalized."* The coo of this species is 

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

 times successively, and of which its Hindoostanee name Tortroo is a sort 

 of imitation. 



T. Suratensis : Col. suratensis, Gmelin, founded on la Tourterelle 

 de Surate of Sonnerat : C. tigrina, Temminck : C. turtur, Lin., var., 

 figured in Griffith's 'Animal Kingdom,' viii. 290. (Chitroka Fachtah, 

 Hind, ; Chanral G'hoogoo, or Telia G'hoogoo, Beng. ; Kangskiri, Bhagul- 

 pore ; Chitla, Upper Provinces ; Lay-byouk, Arracan.) (Speckled 

 Turtle-dove.) Above blackish or dusky ; each feather having two pale 

 rufous terminal spots, which latter enlarge, and spread up each side of 

 the feather, upon the wing- coverts, the blackish contracting to a central 

 streak, with broad pale vinaceous lateral borders ; edge of the wing 

 light grey ; head greyish, tinged with vinaceous, which latter prevails 

 on the breast and under- parts, passing to white on the belly and 

 under tail- coverts ; a broad half- collar on the nape, consisting of black 

 feathers divergent at the tips, each tip ending in a small round white 

 spot : tail broad and graduated to the depth of an inch and a half 

 or more, each feather attenuating towards its tip ; the middle tail- 

 feather brown, the outermost greyish-white for nearly the terminal half, 

 having the rest black, and the other tail-feathers successively inter- 

 mediate in their colouring. Irides dark hazel, surrounded by a reddish 

 schlerotica ; beak dull leaden-black ; and legs dark purplish-red. Length 

 twelve inches by sixteen and a half ; of wing five inches and three- 

 quarters : female rather less. 



A very familiar species, and generally diffused, both throughout India 

 and in the Malay countries ; coming very much into gardens, even of large 

 towns. It abounds even more than T. risorius, in the vicinity of Cal- 



* Proc. Zool. Soc, 1836, p. 100. 



