. The birds of South Africa. Birds. 178 COLUMBID^ TYMPANISTEIA 6d0. Tympanistria bicolor. Tambourine Dove. Le Tourterelle tambourette, Levaillant, Ois. d'Afr. vi, p. 86, pi. 272 (1808). Columba tympanistria, Tejmn. §• Enip, Pig- i, fam. sec. p. 80, pi. 36 (1808-11). Peristera tympanistria, Ourney, Ibis, 1860, p. 214,1864, p. 359 [Natal]; Layard, B. 8. Afr. p. 262 (1867); Shelley, Ibis, 1875, p. 84. Tympanistria bicolor, ReicJienb. Nat. Syst. Vog. p. xxv (1852) ; Wood- ward Bros., Ibis, 1898, p. 217 ; id. Natal Birds, p. 184 (1899); Short- ridge, Ibis, 1904, p. 201. Tympanistria tympanistria, B
. The birds of South Africa. Birds. 178 COLUMBID^ TYMPANISTEIA 6d0. Tympanistria bicolor. Tambourine Dove. Le Tourterelle tambourette, Levaillant, Ois. d'Afr. vi, p. 86, pi. 272 (1808). Columba tympanistria, Tejmn. §• Enip, Pig- i, fam. sec. p. 80, pi. 36 (1808-11). Peristera tympanistria, Ourney, Ibis, 1860, p. 214,1864, p. 359 [Natal]; Layard, B. 8. Afr. p. 262 (1867); Shelley, Ibis, 1875, p. 84. Tympanistria bicolor, ReicJienb. Nat. Syst. Vog. p. xxv (1852) ; Wood- ward Bros., Ibis, 1898, p. 217 ; id. Natal Birds, p. 184 (1899); Short- ridge, Ibis, 1904, p. 201. Tympanistria tympanistria, Butler, Feilden and Beid, Zool. 1882, p. 338 ; Shelley, Ibis, 1883, p. 326 ; Sharpe, ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. p. 571 (1884); Salvadori, Cat. B. M. xxi, p. 504 (1898); Shelley, B. Afr. i, p. 138 (1896); Beichenoiv, Vdg. Afr. i, p. 424 (1901). ""White Breasted Dove " of some authors; "Isebelu" of the Fig. 56.—Wing of Tympanistria bicolor from below. Description. Adult Male.—Fxoni of the head, a patch above the ear-coverts and a line above and below the eye connecting them, white; lores, posterior half of the crown, nape and back brown, a little more ashy on the head; wing-quills cinnamon, with marked brown edgings and tips ; on the outer web of some of the inner coverts and secondaries metallic spots of blackish-purple; two not well-marked bands of dark brown across the rump; central pair of tail-feathers brown with a wash of cinnamon, outer pair ashy with a broad subterminal band of black; below white throughout, under wing-coverts and axillaries cinnamon, uader tail-coverts and flanks ashy-brown. Iris dark brown, eyelids deep lilac ; bill and legs purplish. Length in flesh, 8-75 ; wing 4-5 ; tail 365; eulmen -60 ; tarsus Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original wor
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