322 Mr. Blyth's Remarks upon specimens of Mammalia and Birds 



which had moulted in confinement ! Mr. Hodgson, I think, termed 

 it Ptilinopus maroneus, 



P. 122. I consider Alsocomus, Tickell, vel Dendrotreron, Hodgson, 

 to be a good group, embracing the CarpophagaAike species of true 

 Columba, with twelve tail-feathers only, instead of fourteen as in the 

 Carpophagce. The species have of late been variously classed, some 

 in Carpophaga and others in restricted Columba ; and the following are 

 among those which are referable to it : — C. Hodgsonii and C. pu- 

 nicea* of India, C. arquatrix and C. guinea of Africa, and C. leuco- 

 mela of Australia ; while Lopholaimus antarcticus is immediately 

 allied, indeed scarcely separable. Palumbus, Kaup, seems another 

 natural group, comprising C. palumbus, L., C. Elphinstonii, and I 

 would refer to it C. amas, L. — Mr. Gray identifies C. pulchricollis, 

 Hodgson, with C. Elphinstonii, in which case the total length given 

 by Sykes of nearly sixteen inches must be erroneous ; especially as 

 the length of tail assigned by him (5^ inches) is the same as in the 

 Himalayan bird. 



P. 123. For Columba pulchrara, Hodgson, read pulchr-ala. — Co- 

 umba chinensis, Scopoli, is a distinct species from C. suratensis, 

 Gmelin. — Turtur humilis. What I have described as the old and 

 young prove to be the adult male and female of this species, as was 

 first intimated to me by Capt. Hutton. 



P. 124. Gallophasis leucomelanos (Lath.), the Kdledge Pheasant of 

 Nepal, seems to me to be a bastard race between G. albocristatus of 

 the N.-W. Himalaya, and G. melanotus, nobis, of Sikim. In like 

 manner, every possible gradation of plumage is exhibited between 

 G. Cuvieri (v. Horsfieldi, G. R. Gray) of Assam and Sylhet, and G. 

 lineatus of Arracan and Tenasserim. 



P. 125. Should not the common Jungle-fowl or wild Common 

 Fowl, so very abundant throughout the northern half of India and in 

 the Indo-Chinese and Malay countries, be now designated Gallus 

 ferrugineus (Gm.), instead oibanhiva, Temminck ? G. alector should 

 have been the name for it. The hen is the Hackled Partridge of 

 Latham. 



P. 126. Franco linus gular is and Fr. pondicerianus should, in my 

 opinion, be referred to restricted Perdix ; a very different group from 

 that exemplified by Fr. vulgaris and Fr. pictus. — Arboriphila, Hodg- 

 son. There are two Himalayan species of this type, and a third in 

 the Assam hills, and those of Sylhet and Arracan. 



P. 128. Perdicula, Hodgson. This is also, I think, properly di- 

 stinguished, for the Pigmy true Partridges, P. rubiginosa and P. cam- 

 baiensis, or Coturnix argoondah and C. pentah of Sykes. — Of Turnix, 

 the common Himalayan species is undistinguishable from T. ocel- 

 latus of the Malay countries, represented in Bengal by the nearly 

 allied T. bengalensis, nobis, and in South India and Ceylon by the 

 equally allied T. taigoor, Sykes : T. Dussumieri extends throughout 

 India and in Arracan; and the T.joudera (Hodgson) is, I suspect, 

 the same as T. Sykesi (A. Smith, 1838), described with T. lepurana 



• This also inhabits Arracan and the Tenasserim provinces. 



