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Inhabits the Island of Java ; exceedingly common near Bantam, 

 in the palm woods, where it fills the ears of the neighbouring 

 inhabitants with its pleasing, melancholy notes. We will not be 

 positive that this may not be a young bird of the Malacca Species, 

 if not the female. 



One similar, said to have come from New-Holland, had the chin 

 nearly white ; forehead paler than the rest; from the belly to the 

 vent very pale ash-colour. 



Inhabits Sumatra, called Katitiran ;* but in this the breast is of a 

 vinous red, less bright in the female. Said to be three Varieties, 

 differing in size : this is the Turtle often kept tame, and trained to 

 fight with each other. Poonas is the generic name of the Doves, 

 which the Malays distinguish from the Balam, or Turtle family, by 

 being less exclusively granivorous. 



132— BARRED TURTLE, 



Columba striata, Ind. Orn. ii. 608. Lin. i. 282. Gm. Lin. i. 775. Klein, 120. 21. 



Jacquin, Vog. 32. t. 15. 

 Turtur Indicus striatus, Bris.\. 109. Id. 8vo. i. 26. 

 Tourterelle rayee des Indes, Buf. ii. 557. Id. Sonnin. vii. p. 292. 

 Barred Turtle, Gen. Syn.iv, 650. Id. Sup. 200. Edw. pi. 16. 



LENGTH nine inches and a half. Bill three quarters of an inch, 

 pale horn-colour; nostrils pale blue ; irides blue grey ; the eyes in 

 a bare white skin, which passes to the nostrils; forehead, cheeks, and 

 throat, pale blue ; the top of the head and hindhead incline to 

 rufous ; upper part of the neck, the back, and wing coverts, brownish 

 ash-colour, marked with transverse, arcuated bands of black ; rump 

 the same, but not banded ; sides of the neck and body incline to 

 blue, crossed with slender blue black lines ; fore part of the neck, 

 breast, belly, and thighs, tinged with rose-colour; tail cuneiform, 

 the two middle feathers deep dove-colour, the rest black, with the 

 ends more or less white; under coverts white ; legs pale red 3 claws 

 brown. 



* Lin. Trans, xiii. 319. 



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