DOVES
THE dove known as Streptopelia risoria, named by Linnaeus in 1758 in his book Systema Naturae, has long confused ornithologists.
Linnaeus described a domestic variety of a dove (= Barbary dove) whose wild form (= African collared dove) was then still unknown. Pre-Linnaeus, the name used for Barbary dove was which was introduced by the Italian naturalist Ulisse Aldrovandi in his book in 1600. Following Aldrovandi, the English naturalists Francis Willughby (1678), John Ray (1713) and Eleazar Albin (1738) mentioned , the “Indian Turtle” or “the Turtle dove from the East Indies” in their works, but their descriptions were based on Aldrovandi's without, Linnaeus also stated incorrectly - that it came from India.
