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RED -EYED DOTE. 
tlie crown is of a most delicate cinereous, graduating 
to white in front, and blending behind into the vina- 
ceous red of the nape and upper neck. The back 
of the neck has a broad black semi-collar margined 
by a narrow' cinereous line ; the orbits are naked 
and rich red ; the whole of the under plumage, as 
far as the belly, is vinaceous, becoming paler on the 
ears and almost white on the chin ; the belly, rent, 
flanks, and under tail-covers, are clear cinereous. 
The tail is broad and rounded, the outer half cine- 
reous (almost white beneath) and the basal half 
black- The bill is black and the feet dark, possibly 
red in the live bird; inner wing-covers cinereous 
black. Structure of the common turtle. 
Total length, 1 1 inches ; bill, from the gape, 1 ; 
wings, 7 ; tail beyond, 1| ; ditto, from the base, 5 ; • 
tarsus, ; middle toe and claw, l/j ; hinder ditto, 
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HALF-COLLARED DOTE. 
Turtur scmitorquaius , Swains. 
Above light brown ; nape with a black crescent-shaped collar ; 
front, crown, and body beneath, vinaceous ; chin and belly 
whitish ; wing-covcrs light cinereous ; inner toe longer 
than the outer. 
There is such a close similarity in general points of 
colour between this and the last, that but for their 
great disparity of size, they might at first be taken 
