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ALLEN’S naturalist’s LIBRARY. 
TIIK TRUE TURTLE-DOVES. GENUS TURTUR 
Turtur, Selby in Jardine’s Nat. Libr. Pigeons, p. i6o (i8„) 
Type, r. ///r/Kr (Linn.). ^ 
'i'he characters of the genus Turing .. 
of the Sub family recorded above. 
I. the turtle-dove, turtur turtur 
^'" o’s'aT "="• '*• 39. pi. 
Tiirhir communis Selby ; B. O. U, List Brit. B p i-o fiSS.l ■ 
partxxviiil^(i89i.^ 
n^riur auriius.Jiay ; Seebohm, Hist. Brit. B. ii p ah/'tSSa^ 
Turtur turtur, Salvad. Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxi. p! 596 (189^ 
Adult Male.— General colour above brown with a rnHrl,, 
shade, the scapulars and wing-coverts rufous, witli black soear^ 
shaped centres to the feathers, less strongly indicatS on the 
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