424 REVIEW OF JAPANESE BIRDS. 



yerturesalaires.— IC. Adulte, Toyage de Biirgor: semblable au No. 15, mais k dos gris 

 et h taches uoirAties plus iiombreuses.— 17. Adulte, Burger: semblablo au No. 16, 

 mais a taches noires des plumes alaires excessivemeut larges. — 18. Adulte, voyage 

 de Burger : semblable au No. 17, mais h dos blauc et k tacbes noires des plumes alaires 

 excessivement larges.— 19, 20. Adultes, von Siebold : tacbes noires des ailes exces- 

 eiveraeut grandes ; dos gris, mais 6galement tacbet6 de noir. (Mus. P.-Bas, Columb., 

 PP.64-0C.) 



It ninst be remarked, however, that we liave no way of ascertaiiiiug- 

 ■whether the above specimeus were iu a perfectly wihl state when col- 

 lected or not. 



Columba intermedia Strickl. 

 Indian Rock-Pigeon. 



WU.— Cohimbu intermedia Stkicki.x'sd, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 1844 (p. 39).— Cassin, 

 Proc. Pbilada. Acad., lsl)2, p. 3-20.— Seebohm, Ibis, 1887, p. 182.— Stejn- 

 EGER, Zeitscb. Ges. Oruitb., lt-87, p. —.—Id, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., X, 

 1887, p. 415. 

 1873. — Columba livia Schlegel, Mus. P.-Bas, Columb., p. 64 (part.). 



The Liu Kiu specimen (U. S. Nat. Mus. No. 21217) before ns has gray 



rump and tail, but the axillaries are pure white. I make this remark 



because Seebohm (Br. B. Eg-gs, ii, p. 400, foot-note), apropos of the 



dark rump of this species, says: "As in the Stock-Dove and its allies, 



the color of the i iimp appears to be always correlated with that of the 



axillaries." 



As this specimen is in rather poor state of preservation, I shall not 



describe it at present, but the dimensions are as follows : Wing, 210™"; 



tail-feathers, 103'"'" ; exposed culmen, 18'"'" ; tarsus, 29'"'" ; middle toe, 



with claw, 37'""'. 



(1.58?) Columba domestica Gmel. 



Common Rock-Pigeon. Kawara bato. 



1758.— Columba oenas /i. domestica 'Lis^., S. N., 10 ed., i, p. 1G2 {no7n. nud.). 



1766.— Columba oenas Linn., S. N., 12 ed., i, p. 279 {nee 1758). 



1788. — Columba domestica Gmelin, S. N., i, p. 769. 



178-i. — Columba domestica ft livia Gmelin, S. N., i, p. 769. 



1790.— Columba livia Bonnaterre, Tabl. M^th., i, p. 227.— Schlegel, Mus. P.-Bas, 

 Columb., p. 63 (i)art.) (1873).— ?Blakist. & Pryer, Ibis, 1878, p. 227.— 

 lid., Tr. As. Soc. Jap., viii, 1880, p. 204.— Jid., ibid., x, 1882, p. 128.— 

 ?Blakist., Amend. List B. Jap., p. 43 (1884).— ? Seebohm, Ibis, 1884, p. 

 179. 



1817 .—Coluviba domestica f era 'NiLSSoy; , Orn. Svec, i, p. 296. 



1828.— Co/«/?i/w amaUwBREHil, Isis, 1828, p. 139. 



1845.— Co/«m&a affinis Blyth, Jonrn. As. Soc. Beng., xiv, (p. 862). 



1881. — Columba livia a. fera Bogdanow, Tr. Sib. Obtscb. Jestestv., xil (p. 98), 



1881.— Columba livia (i. rustica Bogdanow, Tr. Sib. Obtscb. Jestestv., xii (p. 98). 



I have placed all the quotations of Messrs. Blakiston & Fryer's 

 Columba livia under this heading simply because I do not know where 

 else to place them, and because I am entirely ignorant of the form that 

 inhabits Enoshima. Seebohm's C. livia, based on an example collected 

 by Mr. Ringer at Nagasaki, may, perhaps, rather belong to C. inter- 

 media, but all he says of it is that it "is darker than usual." 



It is only necessary to consult the work of Gmelin to see that the 

 nomenclature adopted above is the correct one, as Brisson's specific 



