Ind. B., p. 501, 1873; Stray Feathers, 1874, p. 481; id., I. c., 1875, p. 168; Blyth &
Walden, Journ. As. Soc., Bengal, vol. xliv, extra No., p. 146, 1875; Hume, Stray Feathers,
1877, p. 40.
Turtur rupicolus, Gray, Handl., vol ii, p. 288, 1870.
a. $ Katha, 19th January 1868.
b. $ Tsitkaw, 9th February 1875..
c. d. S Ponsee, 11th March 1868.
180. T u r t u r r i s o r iu s , Linn.
La tourterelle a collier, Briss. Om., t. i, p. 95, 1760.
Columba risoria, Linn., Syst. Nat., vol. i, p. 285, 1766; Temm., Hist. Pigeons., t. i, p. 828, 1813 ;
Alleon, Rev. Zool., 1865, p. 5.
Collared turtle, Lath., Gen. Syn., vol. ii, pt. 2, p. 648, 1788.
Colombe blonde, Temm., Pigeons, pi. xliv, 1807.
Turtur risorius, Selby, Nat. Hist., Pigeons, pi. xvii, c. 1885; Gray, Cat. Gall., &c., B. Mus., p. 12,
1844; Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc., Bengal, p. 285, 1849; Gray, Cat. Columba, p. 44, 1856;
Jerdon, B. Ind., vol. ii, p. 481, 1862; Brehm, Habesch., p.- 222, 1868; Gray, Handl. B.,
vol. ii, p. 289, 1870; Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc.,. 1871, p. '897; Hume, Stray Feathers, 1873,
p. 218; Adam., t. c., p. 890 ; Ball, Stray Feathers, 1874, p. 425; Blyth & Walden, Joum.
As. Soc., Bengal, vol. xliv, extra No., p. 146, 1875; Hume, Nests and Eggs, Ind. B., p. 506,
1873; id., Stray Feathers, 1875, p. 165; Brooks, tic., p. 256 ; Blanford, East. Pers., vol. ii,
p. 270, 1876; Taczan., Bull. Soc. Zool., France, t. i, p. 241, 1876; Butler, Stray Feathers,
1876, p. 3; Fairbank, t. c., p. 262; I. c., 1817, 409.
Turtur douraca, Hodgs., in Gray's Zool. Misc., p. 85,, 1844; Schleg., Mus. P.-B. Cohmba,
p. 128, 1873.
Turtur Helens, Brehm, Naum., 1856, p. 286.
JPeristera risorea, Brehm, Yogelf., p. 257, 1856.
Streptopelia risorea, Bonap. Consp., vol. ii, p. 65, 1857; Reichenb., vollstdt., die Nat. Tauben, pp. 74,
175, taf. clii, fig. 1365, 1862.
a. Upper defile, Irawady, September 1868.
I shot the bird about forty miles below Bham6. The colour generally is darker
and more vivid than in Indian specimens of the species, and the collar js larger and
more crescentic than in ordinary T. risorius, and if Jerdon’s measurements are
founded on fresh specimens this bird is decidedly larger. He gives 13 inches as the
extreme length, but my specimen measures 14 inches, its wing 7 inches, and its
tail 6. .
181. T u r t u r o r ie n t a l is , Latham.
La tourterelle brune de la Chine, Sonn., Voy. Ind. Orient., t. ii, p. 177, 1782.
Cokmba orientalis, Lath., Ind. Orn., vol. ii, p. 606, 1790.
Columba rupicola, Pall., Zoogr. Ross. Asiat., vol. i, p. 566, 1811.
Columba pulchrata, Hodgs., in Gray's Zool. Misc., p. 85, 1831.
Columba meena, Sykes, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1882, p. 149.
Cohmba agricola, Tickell, Joum. As. Soc., Bengal, vol. ii, p. 581» 1838.
Cohmba gelastes, Temm., Nouv. Rec., PI. Col., pi. 550, 1888; Temm. & Knip, Hist. Nat.,
Pigeons, t. ii, pi. xxvii; Middend., Reis. Sibir., p. 189, 1851.
Cohmba ferr ago, Eversm., Add. ad Zoogr. Ross. As., vol. iii, p. 17, 1842.
Turtur meena, Gray, Gen. B., vol. ii, p. 472, 1844; Bonap. Consp., t. ii, p. 60, 1854; Jerdon,
B. Ind., vol. iii, p. 476, 1864; Blyth & Walden, Joum. As. Soc., Bengal, vol. xliv, extra
No., p. 146, 1875 ; Hume, Stray Feathers, 1875, p. 165.
Turtur orientalis, Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc., Bengal, p. 286, 1849; Swinhoe, Ibis, 1860, p. 68;
Schleg., Mus. P.-B. Cohmba, p. 118, 1878; Dresser, B. Eur., pt. lv, 1876.
Cohmba (Tvrt/ur) gelastes, Temm. & Schleg., Faun. Japon., p. 100, pl. lx, B. 1854.
Turtur rupicola, Bonap. Coup d'oeil sur l'ordre des Pigeons, p. 29, 1855 ; Gray, List Spec. B.,
vol. iv, Cohmba, p. 41, 1856 ; id., Handl. B., vol. ii, p. 288, 1870 ; Swinhoe, Proc. Zool.
Soc., 1871, p. 897 ; Holdsw., Proc. Zool. Soc., 1872, p. 467.
Cohmba (Vitieollis) major, Temm., fide Bonap. Consp., t. ii, p. 60,1850.
Columba (Vitticollis) minor, Temm., fide Bonap. ut supra, 1857.
Columba (Pexistera) twrtnr, L. var. gelastes, Schrenck, Reis. Amurl., p. .889, 1859.
Turtur vitieollis, Hume, in Henderson’s Lahore to Yarkand, p. 274, 1873.
a. $ Katha, 20th January 1868.
b. Tsitkaw, 6th February 1875.
c. d. Ponsee, April 1878.
I obtained this species first at Katha and afterwards at Tsitkaw, where it is
numerous, and also at Ponsee. I t differs from T. meena in several particulars ; 1st,
the anterior half of the body has not the rufescent tinge of T. meena, which is most
marked on the occiput, hind neck, and upper back of that bird ; 2nd, the rufous
margins of the wing feathers are not so intense or broad as in T. meena ; 3rd, the
abdomen is vinaceous-brown, the same as on the lower half of the breast, and
about the vent is bluish-ashy ; 4th, the sides of the body, under the wing, are
more uniformly bluish-ashy than in the T. meena, and the under tail-coverts are
slightly darker. The nape, till on a line with the collar, is rufescent vinaceous,
and the neck spot, instead of being abruptly defined, as in T. meena, has a
bluish-ashy tint on all its sides, except the upper one, and it is altogether longer.
The back is brownish, marked with slightly vinous rufescent, and the feathers are
very faintly margined with rufescent brownish ; the lower back and rump deep
bluish-grey, the feathers very faintly washed with rufescent at their tips. Under
surface vinaceous-brown, deepest on the breast.
Genus C h a l c o p h a p s , Gould.
182. C h a l c o p h a p s i n d i c a , Linn.
The Green-winged Love, Edwards, Birds, vol. i, pl. xiv, 1748.
Cohmba indica, Linn., Syst. Nat., i, p. 299, 1766, ex Edwards.
Touterelle de Java, Montb., PI. Enl., t. iii, pi. 177.
Cohmba javanensis, Miill., Syst. Nat. Suppl., p. 183, 1776.
Le Pigeon vert à tête grise d’Antigue ou de Tisle Panay, Sonn., Yoy. N. Guin., p. 112, pi. lxvi, 1776.
Cohmba pileata, Scop., Del. Flor. et Faun. Insubr., t. ii,p. 94, 1786, ex Sonn.
Columba albicapilla, Gm., Syst. Nat., vol. i, p. 775, 1788, ex Sonn.
Cohmba javanica, Gm., Syst. Nat., vol. i,p. 781, 1788 ; Horsf., Trans. Linn. Soc., vol. xiii, p. 188,
1821 ; Raffl., t. c., p. 817, 1822.
Cohmba griseocapillata, Bonn, et Yieill., Enc. Méth., p. 238, 1823, ex Sonn.