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⁶⁷² Cf. Su.Sū.46.67. P. Rāy and H.N. Gupta (1965): Chalesphaps indica, the spotted pigeon. P.V. Sharma: pigeon. Gulabkunverba: dove. R.K. Sharma and Bhagwan Dash: idem. MW: spotty-necked pigeon (absent from S. Ali and S.D. Ripley). See on the subspecies of Chalcophaps indica (Linnaeus), the emerald dove: S. Ali and S.D. Ripley 3, 157–161. K.N. Dave (1985: 250–264) is of the opinion that kapota designates Streptopelia senegalensis cambayensis (Gmelin), the Indian little brown dove (see S. Ali and S.D. Ripley 3, 155–157), S. orientalis orientalis (Latham), the rufous turtle-dove (see S. Ali and S.D. Ripley 3, 142–143), S. chinensis suratensis (Gmelin), the Indian spotted dove (see S. Ali and S.D. Ripley 3, 152–153), S. decaocto decaocto (Frivaldszky), the Indian ring dove (see S. Ali and S.D. Ripley 3, 147–149), Macropygia unchall tusalia (Blyth), the bartailed cuckoo-dove (see S. Ali and S.D. Ripley 3, 138–139), and the emerald dove. Properties of the flesh of the gṛhavāsin and vanavāsin kapota are mentioned at Ca.Sū.27.72cd–74ab; Śivadāsasena remarks that the vanavāsin type is not a kapota, but a pārāvata. The kapota is a bird of ill omen (see J. Gonda, 1951: 115).