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" Pisawa." But it is smaller, and has red legs instead of yellow, easily 

 distinguished by a field-glass ; and these are distinctions that the better 

 ot them can make out, when a description of shades of plumage is useless. 

 Mr. Blant'ord gives the habitat as '" forests of the Malabar Coast from 

 the neighbourhood of Bombay to Cajie Comorin." What brings 

 Bombay into the Malabar Coast is not clear. But I have a note of one 

 shot in my presence in the police lines of Alibag on the 20th July^ 

 1690 ; out of a flock. Jerdon's other localities are shown in a note to 

 be doubtfid, and saem not to have been confirmed by any other 

 observer. I suspect the species to occur along the Western Ghats, 

 right up to the Kondai Bari, where I saw something like this bird 

 myself, and heard of the like from others. But no specimens were 

 secured in my time (1873). 



There seems to be doubt about the representation in our pro- 

 vince of the Imperial Pigeons or Carpophagince. The records of 

 Carpopliaga aenea, the green imperial pigeon, do not carry it north 

 of Kanara with any certainty. There is some large wood-pigeon 

 in ihe Tanna and Kolaba forests, with a very loud call. The late 

 Mr. George Gibson reported it to me from Tungar ; and 1 have 

 heard it in many ]>l:ices, and once had a good chance of watching a 

 pair on the forest plateau of Landur, near Rohe, Kolaba Di-strict, 19th 

 February, 1888. The natives called them Ghh-ti As they were 

 evidently shy, and I wanted to make sure of the call, I took the field- 

 glass to them instead of sacrificing the observatioji to a chance of a 

 shot. The call was almost a hoot. I took them for Alsocomus, Jerdon's 

 elpJiinstomi, the wood-pigeon or imperial pigeon of ilie Nilgiris. 

 Mr. Blanford puts it in the sub-family Co/i</?i6mce ; but its habits are 

 adjnittedly much the same as those of the last bird : and I suspect some 

 confusion between them in the forest, where the colours are not always 

 easy to observ-e, and the observer is often hampered by public duty, or 

 by the chase of larger gam*^. If the Ghiirti turns out to be 

 A. elplunstonii, Mr. Blanford's northern limit of Mahableshwar will bo. 

 stretched by a couple of degrees of latitude ; and it seems to be rather 

 the business of our Society to get at the truth about such very hand- 

 some neighbours. Ducnla ciijirea may occur in the Tanna and 

 Kolaba forests. It is an unlucky thing that all three birds have red 

 legs, so that the difficulty of identifying perching specimens with the 

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