'44 Mr. E. Blyth's Drafts for a Fauna Indica. 



longest tertiaries are greenish- dusky instead of green ; and the 

 lower tail-coverts are of a deeper cinnamon colour. Lastly, the 

 corneous portion of the upper mandible scarcely extends quite so 

 far back as in TV. nipalensis ; and a curious and marked distinc- 

 tion consists in the Indian species having the inner web of its 

 third primary sinuated, as in the Hurrials of the next section, 

 while its closely allied Javanese representative exhibits no decided 

 trace of such a character *. In a third species which I refer to 

 this section, the Tr, Capellei, Temm.f (common near the Straits 

 of Malacca), the beak is lengthened by the prolongation of its 

 soft and tumid basal portion becoming, as remarked by Mr. 

 Strickland, " almost vulturine in form ; " while the size of the 

 bird is considerably larger, and, it may be added, that the sinua- 

 tion of the interior web of its third primary exists, but not to 

 the same depth as in Tr. nipalensis. 



B. Typical Treron. Hurrials with the beak moderately ro- 

 bust, much less so than in the preceding section, its corneous 

 portion occupying the terminal half, or thereabouts. There is 

 no bare space round the eyes, and the tail is squared. Sinuation 

 of the third primary well-developed in eight species examined, 

 and probably therefore throughout the group. 



Tr. PH(ENicopTERA : CoLphoenicopterafJj^^thsim.: C.militarisj 

 Temm. : C. Hardwickii, Gray (figured in Griffiths Animal King- 

 dom, viii. 299) : Vina go militaris, Gould^s Century, pi. 58 J. 

 Green. The neck all round, with the breast, bright yellowish- 

 green, having a shade of fulvous ; cap, sides of base of neck, and 

 the abdominal region ash-gray, the belly with generally some 

 admixture of green, more or less developed, and there is a green 



* This character of the sinuation of the middle of the inner web of the 

 third primary appears to be variable. I have before me two specimens of 

 what I consider the true aromafica, both obtained at Malacca, but the male 

 bird presents no trace of such a sinuation, while in the female it is strongly 

 marked. I think therefore that the supposed distinctness oi nipalen.sis and 

 aromatica requires further confii'mation, the differences in colour being 

 very slight— H.E.S. 



f Treron magnirostris, Strickland, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 1844, p. 116, 

 and doubtless Fin. giganteus of Raffles, mentioned in the * Catalogue of 

 Zoological Specimens * appended to Lady Raffles' * Life of Sir Stamford 

 Raffles/ p. 674, though not the bird referred to in the note attached, which 

 is probably a Carpophaga. 



X Mr. G. R. Gray identifies this bird with Col. Sti. Thomee of Gmelin, 

 to which name he assigns the precedence ; but I decidedly think that he is 

 mistaken in so doing. I perceive also that in Griffith's * Animal Kingdom,' 

 Col, Sti. ThomcB is referred to militaris of Temminck ; this last-named author 

 having stated that C. Sti. Thomce occurs in India. 



[The Columba Sti. Thoma was so named from occurring in the island of 

 St. Thomas, on the west coast of Africa, and is undoubtedly distinct from 

 any Asiatic species. It is probably referable to the female of T. calvus, 

 Temm., or of T. crassirostris, Fraser. — H.E.S.] 



