The Key to Scientific Names

Edited by James A. Jobling
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Spilopelia

(Columbidae; syn. Streptopelia â€  Spotted Dove S. chinensis tigrina) Gr. σπιλος spilos  spot; πελεια peleia  dove; "Spilopelia n. g.  (C. chinensis L., et C. suratensis Gm; tigrina Temm.) etiam sp. Turturis rec., sed ala brevi, aliter formata; cauda longiore, subgradata; colore maculato; plumis cervicis cordatis (s. bifidis), nigris apicibus albis, torquem alboguttatum formantibus, bene distinctæ et inter Columbas maxime peculiares" (Sundevall 1873); "Spilopelia Sundevall, Meth. Nat. Av. Disp. Tent. p. 100, 1872.  Type (by subsequent designation, Salvadori, Orn. Pap e Mol. vol. iii. p. 151, 1882): Columba chinensis Scop." (Mathews, 1927, Syst. Av. Austral., I, 63);  "Spilopelia Sundevall, Meth. Nat. Av. Disp. Tent., p. 100, 1873—type, by subs. desig. (Sundevall, l.c., p. 186), Columba tigrina Temminck." (Hellmayr and Conover, 1942, Cat. Birds Americas, Pt. I (1), p. 504).


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