Birds of Celebes: Peristeridae. 
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GENUS TURTUR Selby. 
Plumage chiefly brown and grey. Tail of 12 feathers, rounded or graduated. 
Wing moderate, primaries fairly normal in shape. Bill delicate, shorter than the 
cranium. 
The Celebes species belongs to the subgenus Spilopelia^ in which the feathers 
of the black cervical collar are bifld, the double tip being white. 
Turtur is an old World genus; Spilopelia is found from Afghanistan, Yarkand 
and the Himalayas east as far as China, and south to the Moluccas. 
278. TURTUR TIGRINUS (Temm. Kn.). 
Barbary Dove. 
a. Columba tigrina (I) Temm. & Knip, Pig. I, 1808 — 11, pi. 43; (2J ScliL, Handl. Dieik. 
1857, 404. 
b. Turtur chinensis (1) Wall, (nec Scop.), Ibis 1860, 147. 
Turtur tigriuus (1) Blytli, J. A. S. B. 1855, XXIV, 263, 480; (II) Echb., Tauben 1862, 
72, 174, t. 246, figs. 1361—62; (3) Ball, Str. P.fl873, I, 80; (4) Schl., Mus. P.-B., 
Columbae, 1873,127; (5) Briiggem., Abb. Yer. Bremen 1876, V, 87; (6) Eosenb., 
Malay. Arcbip. 1878, 275; (7) Legge, B. Ceylon 1880, 706; (8) Hume, Str. F. 
IX, 1880, 258; (9) Kelh., Ibis 1881, 528; (10) Bock, Ibis 1882, 475; (11) A. Miill., 
J. f. O. 1882, 431; (12) Oates, B. Br. Burmah 1883, H, 290; (13) Yorderm., N. 
T. Ned. Ind. 1884, XLIV, 228; (14) Hume, Str. P. 1888, XI, 299; (15) Hartert, 
J f. O. 1889, 347, 376; (16) Hickson, Nat. in N. Celebes 1889, 94; (17) Hagen, 
T. Ned. Aard. Genoots. 1890 (2) YH, 156; (18) Oates ed. Hume’s Ne.sts & Eggs 
Ind. B. 1890, H, 356; (19) Hose, Ibis 1893, 420; (20) Salvad., Oat. B. XXI, 1893, 
440; (21) Everett, Ibis 1895, 32; (22) Yorderm., N. T. Ned. Ind. 1895, LIY, 351; 
(23) M. & Wg., Abb. Mus. Dresd. 1895, Nr. 8, p.l5; (24) iid., ib. 1896, Nr.l,p.l4; 
(25) Hart., Nov. Zool. 1896, 163, 554, 564, 573, 589, 598; (26) id., ib. 1897, 165. 
c. Metriopelia inornata (Gray) , (1) Bp., Consp. 11, 1854, 76. 
d. Turtur tigrina (1) Wall., P. Z. S. 1863, 486; (2) id.. Ibis 1865, 391, 399 (3) Wald., 
Tr. Z. S. YHI, 1872, 85; (4) Hume, Str. F. 1874) H, 269; (5) id., ib. 1875, HI, 
164; (6) Armstr., ib. 1876, IV, 337; (7) Hume, t. c. 424, note; (8) Hume & 
Davison, Str. F. 1878, VI, 442; (9) Meyer, This 1879, 137; (10) Everett, J. Str. Br. 
E. A. S. 1889, 193; (11) Wbitehd., Ibis 1890, 57. 
e. Spilopelia tigrina (1) Suudev., Tentamen 1872, 100; (2) Salvad., Cat. Ucc. Borneo 1 , 
296; (3) id., Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. 1875, YII, 673; (4) Meyer, Verb, z.-b^&ea Wien 
1881, 766, 769, 772; (5) Salvad., Om. Pap. 1882, HI, 151; (6) W.i^as., J. f. O. . 
139; (7) Meyer, Ztscbr. ges. Orn. 1884, 194, 215; (7»*^) id., Isis, 
(8) W. Bias., Z. g. 0. 1885, 310; (9) Guillem., P. Z. S. 1885, MO, Platen, 
Gefied. Welt 1887*, 205; (11) Biittik., Notes Leyd. Mus. 1887, IX,76; Yorderm. 
N. T. Ned. Ind. 1890, L, 508; (13) id.. Notes Leyd. Mus. 
Salvad., Agg. Orn. Pap. 1891, 189; (15) id., Ann. Mus. 
(16) Biittik., Zool. Erg. Weber’s Eeise in Ost-Ind. 1893, HI, 305; (17) Yorderm., 
N. T. Ned. Ind. 1893, LH, 203. 
“Terkuku”, Malay and Alfiuous, Minabassa, Meyer d 9, Guillem, e 9, Nat. Coll. 
“Tarkuku”, Minabassa, Biarro, Tagulandang, Siao, Nat. Coll. 
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