Tourterelle is the vernacular Nom generic given to Oiseau X pertaining to three kinds of the family of the Colombidés:

• Oena Swainson, 1837
• Streptopelia Bonaparte, 1855 (including Nesoenas Salvadori, 1893)
  
• Zenaida Bonaparte, 1838 (including Scardafella Bonaparte, 1855)
  

By extension, this name also indicates many small columbidés.

Named species turtle-dove

Many members of of Columbidés smaller than the pigeons, are called turtle-doves.

This list is variable according to the uses:

• Turtle-dove with white wings - Zenaida asiatica

• Turtle-dove with collar - Streptopelia semitorquata
• Turtle-dove with double collar - Streptopelia bitorquata
• Turtle-dove with pink chest - Streptopelia lugens
• Turtle-dove with square shank - Zenaida aurita
• Turtle-dove with gray head - Streptopelia tranquebarica
• Turtle-dove of Adamaoua - Streptopelia hypopyrrha
• Turtle-dove of Reichenow - Streptopelia reichenowi
• Turtle-dove of Socorro - Zenaida graysoni
• Turtle-dove of wood - Streptopelia turtur
• Turtle-dove of Galapagos - Zenaida galapagoensis
• Tourterelle domesticates - Streptopelia risoria
• Tourterelle of the Cape - Streptopelia capicola
• Tourterelle with a grid - Streptopelia senegalensis
• masked Tourterelle - Oena capensis
• mélodieuse Tourterelle - Zenaida meloda
• Tourterelle oreillarde - Zenaida auriculata
• Eastern Turtle-dove - Streptopelia orientalis
• whining Turtle-dove - Streptopelia decipiens
• merry Turtle-dove - Streptopelia roseogrisea
• Turtle-dove tigrine, sad Streptopelia chinensis
• Turtle-dove, Zenaida will macroura
• Turkish Tourterelle, Streptopelia decaocto

Terminology

The turtle-doves of white variety are often called also Colombe S in the language running.

The distinction between the Turkish turtle-dove and the merry turtle-dove, forms domestic ( Streptopelia risoria ) or savage ( Streptopelia roseogrisea ), is not obvious and their classification is still discussed. French considered initially that the merry turtle-dove was a subspecies of the Turkish turtle-dove. But more recently one classifies the two species like distinct or like formant a subspecies also including the turtle-dove with double collar.

The turtle-doves of breeding are most of the time Hybride S of these species.

One should not confuse the turtle-doves with the Tourtelette S which belong when-with them with the kind Turtur .

It is said that the turtle-dove roucoule .

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