302 coloibtd-t:. 



35. Columba casiotis. 



Columba palumbus, part., Blyth, J. A. S. B. xiv. p. 866 (N.W. 



Himalaya, Simla, Alpine Punjab) (1844) ; id. Ann. fy Mag. N. H. 



xix. p. 106 (1847); Adams {nee Linn.), P. Z. S. 1859, p. 187 



(Cashmere and Ladakli). 

 Palumbus torquatus, var., Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. p. 233 



(1849) ; Adams (nee auct.), P. Z. S. 1858, p. 497 (Himalaya and 



Punjab) ; Bchnb. ' Tauben, ii. p. 167 (part.) (1862). 

 Palumbus casiotis, Bp. Consp. ii. p. 42 (1849); id. Compt. Bend. 



xxxix. p. 1103 (1854), xl. p. 218, n. 114 (1855); id. Coup dCaeil 



Ordre Pig. pp. 19, 56, n. 114 (1855); id. Compt. Bend, xliii. 



p. 837 (1856) ; id. Icon. Pig. pi. 58 (1857) ; Bchnb. Tauben, i. p. 51 



(1862); Blyth, Ibis, 1867, p. 149; Pelz. Ibis, 1868, p. 320 



(Koteghur) ; G. B. Or. Hand-list, ii. p. 233, n. 9244 (1870) ; 



Cock | Marsh. Str. Feath. i. p. 358 (1873) ; Hume, Nests fy Eggs, 



iii. p. 497 (1875) ; Dresser, Ibis, 1876, p. 320; Hume, Str. Feath. 



viii. p. 109 (1879) ; Ward!. Bams. Ibis, 1879, p. 448 (Afghanistan) ; 



Marsh. Ibis, 1884, p. 421 (Chamba); Boqd. Consp. Ar. Imp. Boss. 



fasc. i. p. 6 (1884). 

 Columba casiotis, G. B. Gr. List B. Brit. Mus. Columba?, p. 26 



(Nepal) (1856) ; Tytler, Ibis, 1868, p. 202 ; Gieb. Thes. Orn. i. 



p. 740 (1872) ; Blanf. Zool. § Geol. East. Pers. p. 269 (Shiraz) 



(1876) ; Bidd. Ibis, 1881, p. 91 (Gilgit) ; Scully, ibid. p. 583; C. 



Suinh. Ibis, 1882, p. 117 ; Saunders, Hist, of Brit. Birds, iii. p. 6 



(1882) : Pleske, Mem. Ac. Petersb. (7) xxxvi. n. 3, p. 45 (1888) ; 



St. John, Ibis, 1889, p. 173; Tristr. Cat. Coll, B. p. 37 (1889). 

 Columba palumbus himalayana, Schler/. Mus. P.-B. Columba?, p. 66 



(1893). 

 Columba pulchricollis, Sererfz. (nee Gould) Tarkest. Jevotn. p. 68 



(1873) ; id. J.f. O. 1873, pp. 346, 382 (Turkestan). 

 Palumbus pulchricollis, Severtz. (nee Gould) J.f. O. 1875, p. 180. 



Similar to C. palumbus, from which it differs in having the light 

 patches on the sides of the neck of a fulvous or clayey cream- 

 colour. 



Hah. From Thian-shan and Kouldja, through Turkestan, to X.W. 

 Himalaya, Cashmere, Punjab, and S.E. Persia. 



a. S aa - s k. Thian-shan, Aug. {Severtzoff). Tweeddale Coll. 



b 2 ad. sk. Lepsa, Turkestan, May. Dr. Otto Finsch 



[C.]. 

 c,d. Ad.sk. Bharowal (Griffiths). India Museum [P.j. 



e. 9 ad. sk. Kojuk, Afghanistan, April. Col. Swinhoe [P.]. 



/. ,5 ad. sk. Kandahar, March (Sir O. St. Hume Coll. 



John). 

 a o a d sk. Bian Kheyl, April (B. G. Tweeddale Coll. 

 ' ' W. B.). 



h. (£ ad. sk. Quetta, May. Col. Swinhoe [P.]- 



i. Ad. sk. Scinde (Lieut. Burgess). Gould Coll. 



k. 3 ad. sk. Agrore, May. Hume Coll. 



/ rfiuv.sk. Gilgit, Oct. J. Biddulph, Esq. 



[C.]. 

 m. Ad. sk. Cashmere, Aug. Hume Coll. 



n -Yd sk. N.W. Himalayas. Capt. Stackhouse 



Pinwill [P.J 



