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the T. chinensis {Col. chinensis, Scopoli, vel C. risoria, var. B, 

 Latham), founded on la Tourterelle grise de la Chine of Sonnerat, 

 by whom it is correctly figured. The latter is distinguished by 

 its larger size, having the wing and tail respectively six inches 

 long ; by the deep ash-colour, instead of white, of its lower tail- 

 coverts ; and especially by having the back and wings plain un- 

 spotted dark brown, with merely a slight tinge of gray at the 

 bend of the wing only; the spotting of the nape is precisely 

 similar. This bird inhabits China, and the Society possess a 

 specimen of it from Chusan. 



T. MEENA : Col. meena, Sykes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1832, p. 149: 

 C. agricola, Tickell, Journ. As. Soc. ii. 581 : very closely allied 

 to, if not identical with, C. orientalise Lath., founded on la Tour- 

 terelle hrune de la Chine of Sonnerat, which is certainly also C. 

 gelastisj Temminck, PI. Col. 550. [Kullah Fachtah, Hind. ; Sam 

 G'hoogoo, Beng. ; Whulgah of the Mahrattas ; Gyo-pein-doo-ma, 

 Arracan.) (Fox-coloured Turtle-dove.) Viuaceous-brown, 

 lighter on the belly ; more or less ruddy, ashy, or even duskyish 

 above; the rump and upper tail-coverts deep gray; vent and 

 lower tail-coverts lighter gray ; crown and forehead more or less 

 ashy, passing to whitish towards the bill ; throat also whitish in 

 some specimens ; on the sides of the neck a patch of black fea- 

 thers, margined with grayish-white, forming a series of three or 

 four lines of the latter hue ; scapularies, and a greater or less 

 proportion of the wing-coverts, black, broadly margined with 

 I'ufous all round their tips ; coverts of the secondaries pale bluish- 

 ash, at least in some specimens ; winglet and primaries with their 

 coverts dusky, the primaries slightly edged with whitish; tail 

 dusky-ash, its outer feathers successively more broadly tipped 

 with whitish-ash, whiter on the outermost and beneath ; irides 

 orange. Length about 11^ inches ; of wing commonly 7 inches. 

 This bird is also pretty generally diffused throughout India, 

 and occurs upon the Himalaya as a summer visitant, arriving in 

 pairs towards the end of March, as I am informed by Capt. Hut- 

 ton. Mr. Jerdon observed it to be tolerably abundant in the 

 forests of Goomsoor, south of Cuttack, associating in flocks of 

 various sizes. It is enumerated by Mr. Elliot, he adds, as found 

 in the Southern Mahratta countiy, but was not observed by 

 himself in the forest of Malabar. In the Himalaya, and in the 

 eastern countries of Assam, Sylhet and Arracan, it appears to be 

 plentiful, inhabiting alike the hills and plains ; and it is common 

 in the Bengal Soonderbuns. A Javanese specimen is rather 

 large, and very dull- coloured ; less vinaceous underneath, with 

 more gray on the head, and less rufous margining the feathers 

 of its mantle, than in any Indian specimen I have seen ; never- 



