264 coltjmbid^;. 



a. c? ad. sk. Lob-noor, Dec. (Prjevalsky). Seebohm Coll. 



b'. Skeleton. Purchased. 



c. Skeleton. Darwin Coll. 



d', e',f. Skulls. Dr. Gunther s Coll. 



g'. Young hybrid, Columba oznas X C. livia var. Lord Lilford [P.]. 

 " Carrier." 



9. Columba eversmanni. 



? Columba minor fusca, Gm. MS., unde 



? Columba fusca, Pall* (nee Mull.) Zoogr. Rosso-As. i. p. 567 (1811). 



Columba oenas, var., Licht. in Eversm. Reise nach Buchara, p. 132 



(Tartary) (1823) ; Wagl. Syst. Av. Columba, note to sp. 45 (1827). 

 Columba cenas, var. tat'arica, Wagl. (fide Bp. Consp. Av. p. 48, 



1854). 

 Columba eversmanni, Bp. Mus. Berol. (As. Occ. et Centr.) ; id.Compt. 



Rend, xliii. p. 838 (1856) ; Dress. B. of Eur. vii. p. 26 (1876) ; 



Saund. Yarr. Brit. B. iii. p. 12 (1882) ; Sadly, J. A. S. B. lvi. 



p. 86 (1887) ; Tristr. Cat. Coll. £.p.37 (1889); Sharpe, Tr.Linn. 



Soc., (2) Zool. v. p. 84 (1889) ; id. Sc. Res. Sec. Yark. Miss., Aves, 



p. 116 (1891). 

 Palumba3na eversmanni, Bp. Compt. Rend, xliii. pp. 838, 948 (1856) ; 



Bhjth, J. A. S. B. xxvi. p. 219 (1857). 

 Columba oenicapilla, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xxvi. p. 219 (1857) ; Gieb. 



Thes. Orn. i. p. 248 (1872). 

 Palumbcena eversmanni, Jerd. B. of Ind. iii. p. 467 (1864) ; Beav. 



Ms, 1868, p. 374 (Umballah) ; Hume, Str. Feath. i.p. 217 (1873) ; 



id. Lahore to Yark. p. 271, pi. xxxi. (1873) ; Scully, Str. Feath. 



iv. p. 175 (1876) ; Hume, Str. Feath. viii. p. 109 (1879) ; Marsh. 



Ibis, 1884, p. 421 (Chamba). 

 Columba evermanni (sic), G. R. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 232, n. 9238 



(1870). 

 Columba fusca, Severtz. Turk. Jevotn. p. 68 (1873) ; id. J. f. 0. 1873, 



pp. 347, 368, 1874, pp. 420, 422, 1875, p. 180 ; id. Str. Feath. 



iii. p. 431 (1875) ; Bogd. Consp. Av. Imp. Ross. fasc. i. p. 3 (1884) ; 



Pleske, Mem. Ac. Petersb. (7) xxxvi. n. 3, p. 45 

 ? Columba fusca, var. j3. bracbyura, Severtz. J.f 0. 1875, p. 180. 

 Columba intermedia, Dress, (nee Strickl.) Lbis, 1876, p. 321 ; Bidd. 



Ibis, 1881, p. 91 ; C. Sicinh. Ibis, 1882, p. 117 ; Homey. $ Tancre, 



MT. orn. Ver. Wien, 1883, p. 91. 

 ? Columba amas, Blanf. E. Persia, ii. p. 269 (1876). 

 Ccelotreron eversmanni, Hem. <§• Rchmc. Nomencl. Mus. Hein. Orn. 



p 275 (1890). 



Similar to C. cenas, but smaller, and, besides, it has the upper 

 part of the head tinged with vinaceous, the rump whitish grey, in 

 some specimens pure white, and the grey band on the tail barely 

 discernible ; also the metallic feathers of the neck show coppery 

 chestnut reflections : " bill pale yellowish green, base of lower 

 mandible and gape slaty ; legs and feet yellowish fleshy ; irides dark 



* It seems to rue extremely uncertain to which species the name C. fusca, 

 Pall., refers. Pallas himself never saw the bird, and he only gives the de- 

 scription taken from the elder Gmelin's manuscripts, in which there is nothing 

 pointing to the present species.. 



