460 M. Sundevall on the Birds of Calcutta. 



day recreation. No sound is ever heard from them. They smell 

 strongly of musk, which is still very perceptible, after an interval 

 of nine years, in the stuffed specimens brought home. The 

 Bengalese name is Sukkeni or Jidheni (the accent on the final i). 

 I heard no name which resembled the word Chaugaun adopted by 

 Levaillant, which a Frenchman at Chandernagor had written on 

 the specimen described by him. It is probably based on an in- 

 correct adoption of the name Sukheni. 



Among hundreds of Vultures which I saw, often only fifteen 

 or twenty ells distant, I perceived none which were yellowish 

 brown, wherefore I presume that the so-coloured Vultur indicus 

 never, or rarely, occurs near Calcutta. A small number of them 

 were coloured distinctly black and white like the hen above 

 described. Most of them were grayish like the two others de- 

 scribed. 



65. Vultur pondicerianus, auct., Temm. PI. Col. 2 (fig. opt.). 

 Niger, area pectoris concolore, lateribus posticeque latius albo 



cincta ; capite colloque nudis, dilute rubris. Priori paullo minor. 



This species is not common, and I did not procure it, but I 

 several times had an opportunity of observing it carefully. It 

 was rather less than the former, and is consequently one of the 

 smaller species of Vulture. It was not distinguished by any 

 special name, and was occasionally seen among other Vultures. 

 It is always, even during flight, easily recognisable by the purer 

 black colour, the red neck, and the large white spots under the 

 body. I never saw it near enough to distinguish the projecting 

 ear-formed folds of skin on the neck. 



66. Columba tigrina, Temm., Wagl. no. 96. 



Fuscescens, dorso griseo guttato, nigro striolato ; plumis nucha? 

 infimae nigris, apice cordato-incisis, gutta apicis alba. Caput canes- 

 cens. Ala? breves. Rostrum nigrum ; pedes rubri. Corpus subtus 

 immaculatum rubicundo-cinerascens, abdomine crissoque albis. Rec- 

 trices laterales apice late cinereae. Magnit. et statura Turturis 

 (£ ? Febr., Martii). Ala 126 mill., cauda 123, tarsus 20, digitus 

 medius 21, cum ungue 26. 



This small Dove, which is much like the European Turtle-dove, 

 is very common near Calcutta, and was said to be stationary there. 

 They were seen commonly two or three together, walking on the 

 ground to pluck rice-grain, &c. on which they live. In the 

 stomach were found moreover small snail shells, stones, &c. for 

 trituration of the food. The flight and motions are much like our 

 woodpigeon's, and like it they were very shy, and had a singular 

 faculty of hiding themselves behind branches and leaves in the 

 trees. The note is also like the woodpigeon's and has given rise 

 to the Bengalese name Ghugu (the u as in German or ou in 



