2. COLUMBA. 



265 



yellow " (A. 0. Hume). Total length about 12 inches, wing 7*5 to 

 8, tail 4-2 to 4-5, hill 07, tarsus 1. 



Hob. From W. Siberia through Turkestan and Afghanistan to 

 N. India. 



Mr. Blanford (Zool. & Geol. of Persia, p. 269) suspects that this 

 Pigeon inhabits also Southern Persia. 



a. 3 ad. sk. Dschasyl Kill, Alu Tau, W. Dr. Otto Finsch [C.]. 



Siberia, March. 



b. <$ ad. sk. Tashkend, Turkestan, April Gould Coll. 



(Severtzoff). 



c. 3 ad. sk. Tashkend, Turkestan, April Tweeddale Coll. 



(Severtzoff). 



d. e. 3 2 ad. sk. Tirphul, Afghanistan, April 



(Aitchison). 

 f. 3 ad. sk. Toman-agha, Afghanistan, 



April (Aitchison). 

 Near Chughur Serai. 

 Kandahar, April (Sir O. St. 



John). 

 Upper Sindh, Jan. (A. 0. H.). 

 Sukkur, Sindh, Feb. (E. A. 



Butler). 

 Sirsa District, Punjaub, Nov. Hume Coll. 



(A. 0. H.). 

 Sirsa District, Dec. (A. O. H.). Tweeddale Coll. 

 Umballah, Feb. (Dr. Jerdon). Tweeddale Coll. 

 Dehra Dhoon. Hume Coll. 



Sultanpur, Gurgaon Distr., Hume Coll. 



Dec. ( W. N. Chill). 

 Sultanpur, Gurgaon Distr., Salvin-Godnian Coll 



Dec. ( W. N. Chill). 

 Delhi, April (C. T. Bingham). Hume Coll. 

 Allyghur, Nov. ( W. E. Hume Coll. 



Brooks) . 

 Oudh. Hume Coll. 



N.W. India. Capt. Stackhouse 



PinwillJT.]. 

 /', g'. 3 2 ad. sk. Futtehgurh, March (A. An- Seebohm Coll. 



derson) . 



g. Ad. sk. 

 h. ? ad. sk. 



i-m. $ 2 ad. sk 

 n, u. 3 ad. sk. 



p-t. 3 2 ad. sk. 



m. 3 ad. sk. 

 v. Ad. sk. 

 w. Ad. sk. 

 x. 3 ad. sk. 



y, z. 3 ad. sk. 



a'. 3 ad. sk. 

 6'. Ad. sk. 



c'. Ad. sk. 

 d', e'. Ad. sk. 



Afghan Delimitation 

 Comm. [P.J. _ 

 Afghan Delimitation 



Comm. [P.]. 

 India Museum [P.]. 

 Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 



10. Columba albitorques. 



Columba albitorques, Riipp. Neue Wirbelth. p. 63, pi. 22. f. 1 (Abys 

 sinia) (18:35); G. R. Or. Gen. B. ii. p. 470, n. 10 (1844); Riipp. 

 Si/st. ('(ber*. p. 100 (1845); Dea Mxrs in Lefebv. Vol/. Abyss., 

 Ow. p. 140(1846-50); Rchnb. Syn. Av. i . 1243(1847) ; Bp. Consp. 

 Av. ii. p. 49 (1854); id. Compt. L'nid. xxxix. p. 1107 (1854), xl. 

 p. 218, n. 138 (1855); id. Coup ctoeS Ordre Pig. pp. 24, 56, 

 n. 138 (1855) ; G. R. Or. List B. Brit. Mus. Oolumb»,p. 31 (1850) ; 

 Heuql. J.f. O. 1861, p. 190 (Tigreh), 1862, pp. 293, WC*; Rchnb. 

 Tauben,\. p. 59, t. 220. I 124:'; (1862); Finsch $ Jc<»', Trans. 

 Zool. Soc. vii. p. 288 (1870^; lllunf. Geol. .V Zool. Abyss, p. 416 

 (1870); Heugl.Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. 2, p. 826(1871); Qieb. Thes. 

 Om. i. p. 740 (1872) ; Soma, Mus. Nac, Lisb. Columba 3 , p. 13 



