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TURTLE PIGEON. 



rounded with a black collar : the beak is dusky : 

 the irides and feet are red. The female differs 

 from the male in having the collar much narrowerj^ 

 and the colour on the breast brighter. This spe- 

 cies is sometimes entirely of a pure white, and is 

 then very liable to be confounded with the C. alba, 

 but may be readily distinguished from that species 

 by its superior size, as also the difference in length 

 of the tail and wings. 



The male of this species is remarkable for his 

 tenderness towards the female. 



TURTLE PIGEON, 

 (Columba Turtur.) 



Coa rcctricihus apice albis, dorso griseo, pectore vinaceOj macula^ 



laterali colli nigra lineolis albis, abdomine albo. 

 Pigeon with the tail-feathers white at their tips, the back gri- 



seous, the breast vinaceous, a black spot on the sides of the 



neck, with white stripes, the abdomen white. 

 Columba Turtur. Linn. Syst. Nat. 1. 284. 32. GmeL Si/st, 



Nat. 1. p. 786. 32. — Briss. Orn. l.p. 92. 7. — Raii. Syn. Q\. 2. 



— Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. Q05. 47. — Temm. Pig. Ind, 472. — Temm. 



Man. D'ornith. p. 280. 

 La Tourterelle. Buff. Ois. 2. p. 545. pi. 25.— Buff. PL Enl. ^g4. 

 Colombe Tourterelle. Temm. Pig. (Svo,) p. 305. 

 Common Turtle. Penn. Brit. Zool. 103. pi. 45. — Mbin. 2. pL 



47. and 48. — Hayes. Brit. Birds. pL 14.— Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 



644. 40. — Lath. Syn. Sup. 199. — Wale. Syn. 2. p. 188.— 



Lexvin. Brit. Birds. 4. pi. 130.— BetjoicJc, Brit. Birds, l.p. 2^2^ 



— Mont. Orn. Diet. 1. 

 Spotted-necked Turtle. Lath. Gen. Syn. A. QA5. 40. 



