PIGEON. 55 



65— COLLARED TURTLE. 



Columba risoria, Ind. Orn. ii. 607. Lin. i. 28b. Scop. i. No. 182. Frisck, %. 141. 1. 



Bretm. No. 220. Borowsk. iii. 214. Gm. Lin. \. 787. 

 Turtur torquatus, .Bra. i. 95. /</. 8vo. i. 22. Roman. Orn. i. 92. t. 15. 

 Turtur Indicus Aldr. Rati, 61. 3. JPtffc 134. t. 35. i&JEogiS 184. #/«"«, 119. 13. 



Gen'n. iii. t. 287. 

 Colorabe blonde, Temm. Pig.fol. pi. 44. Id. 8vo. i. p. 323. Leoail. Afr. vi. 78. 



No. 268. /firf. Prou. i. 490. 

 Tourterelle a Collier, Buf. ii. 550. pi. 26. PL enl. 244. 

 Die Lachtaube, Naturf. xvii. 76. 



Indian Turtle, Albin, iii. pi. 45. Hayes's Birds, pi. 13. 

 Collared Turtle, Gen. Syn. iv. 648. 



A TRIFLE larger than the Common Turtle. Bill blackish ; 

 irides fine red ; plumage above, the head and neck, back and wing 

 coverts, rufous, or reddish white, nearly cream-colour ; fore part of 

 the neck and breast vinaceous white ; belly and vent white ; rump 

 greyish brown ; quills the same, with whitish edges ; tail cinereous, 

 the two middle tail feathers plain, the others white at the ends, the 

 outer one white on the outer web ; hind part of the neck marked 

 with a collar of black feathers; legs red, claws brown. 



The female much the same, but the colours incline to grey. 



Inhabits India ; also common to France, and the other parts of 

 the European Continent ;* but certainly not met with at large in 

 England. M. Buffon is of opinion, that this and the Common 

 Species produce many Varieties. Is found wild in the confines of 

 the countries of Grand Namaqua, within the Cape of Good Hope ; 

 lays two white eggs, as the Common Species, and has a similar 

 voice ; makes a flat nest, placed on trees. 



* Some say as far as Sweden, but I think Linnseus's words do not justify this ; he 

 says '{ Habitat in India, nobis communis Turtur," by which he probably only means, that 

 it is every where kept in cages, as with us in England. It is not mentioned in the Fauna 

 Suecica. 



