2. COLUMBA. 251 



(187.3) ; Tacz. J.f. 0. 1873, p. 97 ; Severtz. J.f. O. 1873, p. 324 ; 

 Suusa, Mus. Nac. Lisb. Columba', p. 13 (1873) ; Gould, B. of As. 

 vi. pi. 54 (part xxvi., 1874) ; Swinh. Ibis, 1875, p. 125 ; Dress. Ibis, 

 1876, p. 321; Tacz. Bull. Soc. Zuol. Fr. i. p. 240 (1876); id. 

 J.f. O. 187(5, p. 201 ; Prjev. Bowl. Orn. Misc. ii. p. 379 (1877) ; 

 David et Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 385 (1877); Hume, Sir. Feath. viii. 

 p. 110 (1879) ; Tacz. P. Z. 8. 1879, p. 673 (Turkestan); Bidd. 

 Ibis, 1881, p. 92; Scully, t. c. p. 584; Salvia, Cut. B. Strickl. Coll. 

 p. 544 (1882) ; Saund. Fan: Brit. B. iii. p. 16 (1882); Horn. # 

 Tenure, MT. orn. Ver. Wien, 1883, p. 91 ; Severtz. Ibis, 1883, 

 p. 71; Marsh. Ibis, 1884, p. 421 (Cliamba); Bogdan. Consp. Av. 

 Imp. Boss. i. p. 2 (1884) ; Tacz. Bull. Soc. Zool. Fr. 1885, p. 474 ; 

 id. P. Z. S. 1887, p. 609 (Oorea) ; Stejn. Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. 



1887, pp. 423, 425 ; Cord. Ibis, 1888, p. 220 ; Dorries, J. f. O. 



1888, p. 88; Pleske, Mini. Ac. Petersb. (7) xxxvi. n. 3, p. 45 

 (1888); Tacz. P. Z. S. 1888, p. 467; Hein. # JRchnw. Nomeucl. 

 Mus. Hein. Orn. p. 275 (1890); Sharps, Sc. Pes. Sec. Yark. Miss. 

 Aves, p. 116 (1891) ; Campb. Ibis, 1892, p. 242 (Corea). 



Columba livia, var., Adams, P. Z. S. 1858, p. 497 ( Ladak), 1859, p. 187. 

 Columba leucozonura, Swinh. Ibis, 1661, p. 259, 18G3, p. 88. 

 Columba livia, var. rupicola daurica, Padde, Beis. im Slid. v. Ost- 



Sib. ii. p. 282 ( 1863). 

 Columba livia, Homey, (nee auct.) J.f. O. 1870, p. 168. 

 Columba rupicola, Headers, if Hume (nee Pull.), Lahore to Yark. 



p. 273 (1873) ; Scully, Str. Feath. iv. p. 176 (1876). 

 Columba livia, part., Sehle</. Mus. P.-B. p. 64 (specimens from the 



Lake Baikal) (1873). 

 Columba rupestris pallida, Bothsch. £ Hartert, Orn. Monatsb. i. 



(1893). 



Adult nude. General plumage dove-grey, darker on the head and 

 throat, lighter on the abdomen and under tail-coverts; neck all 

 round metallic green, with purple lustre : upper breast tinged with 

 vinous ; two black bands across the wings, one on the greater wing- 

 coverts, and a second on the inner secondaries or tertials ; lower 

 back white ; upper tail-coverts plumbeous grey ; quills grey, darker 

 on the outer webs and at the tips ; secondaries grey, with a broad 

 apical dark grey band ; inner under wing-coverts and axillaries 

 white ; tail dark slate-grey, with a broad white band somewhat 

 beyond the median part ; the outer web of the outer tail-feather 

 almost entirely white, except at the tip : " iris golden red ; bill 

 black ; feet lobster-red " (Stoliczha). Total length about 13'5 

 inches, wing 9-2, tail 5, bill - 65, tarsus 1*05. 



Female. Similar to the male, only somewhat smaller. 



Young, lirowu on the crop-region, and very little tinge of 

 vinous below it ; wing-coverts and scapulars with narrow whitish 

 edges. 



Hah. Central Asia, from Turkestan to Corea, and eastern coast of 

 China, and also from Cashmere to Darjeeling. 



There appear to be two races of this bird, as specimens from the 

 Altai are paler than those from Eastern Siberia. Taczanowski has 

 already remarked that the Oussouri bird is sonic what different from 

 the Baikal one, and quite recently Rothschild and Hartert have 

 Bubspecifically separated the paler form. 



