2. COLUMBA. 



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Tunis, Feb (0. Salvin). 

 Bizerta, Feb. (P. L. Sclater). 

 Abyssinia P 



Cyprus, July ( W. Schl'dter). 

 Asia Minor, Feb. ( C. G. Dan- 

 ford). 

 Mesopotamia. 

 Road to Jericbo. 

 Palestine, Jan. (H. B. Tris- 

 tram). 



a", b". Ad. st. et Dizful, Persia, 

 sk. [var. dom.?]. 



c". c? ad. sk. 

 d". cf ad. sk. 

 e",f. Ad. sk. 

 g". $ ad. sk. 

 h", i". Ad. sk. 

 k". Ad. sk. 

 I". 2 a d.sk. 

 m". c? ad. sk. 

 n". 2 ad. sk. 



o". Ad. sk. [var.]. 

 p", </'. Ad. var. 

 r". bkeleton. 



Kandabar, Jan. 



Gilgit, Feb. (J. Biddulpk). 



Sehwan, Jan. (A. 0. H). 



Ladak, Oct. (G. Henderson). 



Ladak (St racket/). 



Cashmere, July. 



Sindh, Nov. 



Faridpur, June (</. R. Cripps). 



Hwailai Hein, China, Sept. 



(M. Swinhoe). 

 Java. 



Juan Fernandez. 

 Shetland Islands. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Tweeddale CoU. 

 Zoological Soc. Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 



Canon Tristram [P.], 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Kenneth Loftus, Esq. 

 [P.]. (Types of 

 C. plumipes, Gr. *) 

 Lt.-Col. Swinhoe [P.]. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 India Museum [P.]. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 



Tweeddale Coll. 

 ' Challenger ' Exp. 

 Darwin Coll. 



5. Columba gymnocyclus. 



Columba livia, part., Licht. Nomencl.Av. p. 81 (1854); Hartl. J.f. O. 



1854, p. 205 (Senegal, Mus. Berol.) ; id. Syst. Om. W.-Afr. p. 193 



(1857). 

 Columba gymnocyclus, G. R. Gr. List B. Brit. Mus. Columbae, p. 28, 



specim. a, b, c. (1856) ; Bp. Compt. Rend, xliii. pp. 838, 948 (1856) ; 



id. Cat. Parzud. p. 19, sp. 40 (1856) ; Sundev. Svenska Foglarna, 



p. 168 (1856) ; Locke, E.vpl. Sc. Alger, ii. p. 112 (1857) ; Hartl. 



Sgst. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 193 (1857); id, J.f. O. 1861, p. 266 (good 



species) ; Rchnb. Tauben, i. p. 57 (1862) ; G. R. Gr. Hand-list, ii. 



p. 232, n. 9232 (1870) ; Saund. Yarr. Brit. B. iii. p. 15(1882). 

 Columba senegalensis \_Bp.~), Mus. Ber. ; id. Compt. Rend, xliii. 



p. 948 (1856) ; "Licht? fide Rchnb. Tauben, p. 57 (1802). 

 ? Columba livia, var. schimperi, Oust, (nee Bp.) Nouv. Arch. Mus. (2) 



ii. p. 156 (1879) (Loss Islands) ; Hartl. J.f. O. 1879, p. 189. 



Similar to C. livia, but tho general plumage dark bluish slate- 

 colour ; rump white ; wings and tail-bands as in C. livia ; head 

 with purple lustre ; naked space round the eyes very broad ; neck 

 and crop-region metallic green, more or less with purple reflections ; 

 inner under wing-coverts white : bill black ; feet probably red. 

 Total length 12 inches, wing S-5, tail 4'5, bill 0-78, tarsus 1*1. 



Hab. Senegal. 



* Tarsus thinly feathered in front ; evidently a half-bred domestic variety. 

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