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Sub -family ( ■arpopJiagince. 



(236) Carpopiiaga .enea. — The Given Imperial Pigeon. 



Blanford, No. 1284 : Jordan, No. 780. 



This fine pigeon is only found in forest in the low country. I 



have never met with it away from the coast, nor have I seen it about 



the hills* 



(237) Ducula cuprea. — Jerdon's Imperial Pigeon. 

 Blanford, No. 1288 ; Jerdon, 'No. 781 (partim.) 

 Unlike the last, this bird is only found in the hills, where it is common 

 in heavy forest at all elevations. " It has two broods in the year, but only 

 lays one egg at a time. These two breeding seasons are in April and 

 again in November. I have seen a bird building in the latter month, 

 and have had the young bird brought to me in January. The nest is a 

 loose structure of twigs without any lining, and exactly resembling 

 an English Wood Pigeon's. I was so fortunate as to find a nest at 

 an elevation of 4,000 feet above sea level and twenty feet from the 

 ground, placed in a mass of tangled iml (Beesha travancorica). The 

 bird was sitting and returned to look at the nest, so we had a full view 

 of her. Besides this I have had an egg sent me which had been taken 

 at an equally high elevation. The egg is white and rather glossy ; it is 

 small for the size of the bird, being only 1'38 X 1'0—T. F. B." 



Sub-family Phahince. 

 (238) Chalcophaps indica. — The Bronze-winged Dove. 

 Blanford, No. 1291 ; Jerdon, No. 798. 

 This beautiful dove is common on the hills at all elevations during 

 the dry weather ; at other times they confine themselves to the lower 

 slopes. Mr. Bourdillon writes : — " I found a nest with two eggs in a 

 bush about eight feet from the ground at Shaliakarai : the eggs were pale 

 ?afe-au-lait, and glossy, and measured 1* X *81." 



Sub-family Columbinae. 



(239) Columba intermedia. — The Indian Blue Bock-Pigeon. 



Blanford, No. 1292; Jerdon, No. 788. 



Common in the low country, frequenting paddy fields. During the 



dry months they ascend the hills up to 2,500 feet elevation in South 



Travancore, feeding during the day and returning in the evening to 



their roosting places in the low country. There is a large colony on 



a rock that rises out of the sea at Capo Comorin. 



