306 



CoLU.MBIIl.T-:. 



fading into cream-white at the extremity ; upper surface of the 

 body, breast, and wing-coverts lead ashy : breast, sides of the neck, 

 and upper back brightly glossed with changeable green and purple ; 

 abdomen grey ; vent and under tail-coverts greyish buffy white : 

 quills and reetrices dark slate-black : " irides yellow : bill red at 

 the base, yellow at the tip; feet crimson " {Gould). Total length 

 13-5 to 14 inches, wing 8-5 to 9, tail 4-75 to 5, bill 074, tarsus 1. 



Hah. Eastern Himalayas, Nepal, Sikhim, and the Island of 

 Formosa. 



a-d. Ad. et juv. 



sk. 

 ',/,&■ Ad- sk - 



h,i, A: Ad. sk. 



I. Ad. sk. 



m, n. 3 5 ad. sk. 



o v. c? ad. et ad. 

 & juv. sk. 



w-a'. Ad. et imm. 



sk. 

 V. Juv. sk. 

 e'. Ad. sk. 



d'. Ad. sk. 



e'. Ad. sk. 

 f. Ad. sk. 



Nepal. 



Nepal (Hodysoti). 



Nepal. 

 Nepal. 

 Native Sikhim, Sept. 



(L. Mandelli). 

 Sikhim, Feb., March, 



June, July, Oct. (L. 



Mandelli). 

 Darjeeling. 



Darjeelins'. 

 Formosa, Feb. (R. 



Sicinhoe). 

 Formosa, April (R. 



Swinhoe). 

 Formosa. 

 Formosa (R. Swin- 



hoe). 



B. H. Hodtrson, ) 



Esq. [P.]. ( (Types of 

 India Museum f species.) 



[PO- ) 



B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [C.]. 



Tweeddale Coll. 



Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 



Tweeddale Coll. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 



Hume Coll. 



R. Swinhoe, Esq. [C.]. 

 Seebohm Coll. 



39. Columba punicea. 



Alsocomus puniceus, Tick, in Bl. J. A. S. B. xi. p. 461 (1842) ; Blyth, 

 Cat. B. Mm. A. S. B. p. 233, n. 1411 (1849) ; Layard, Ann. $■ 

 Mag. N. H. xiv. p. 58 (1854) ; Hart!. J.f. O. 1854, p. 158 ; Bp. 

 Consp. Av. ii. p. 43 (1854); id. Compt. Rend, xxxix. p. 1104 

 (1854), xl. p. 218, n. 119 (1855); id. Coup dlceil Ordre Pi</. 

 pp. 20, 56, n. 119 (1855) ; Rchnh. Tauben, i. p. 52 (1862) ; Jer'd. 

 B. oflnd. iii. p. 469 (1864) ; Beav. Ibis, 1868, p. 373 ; G. R. Gr. 

 Hand-list, ii. p. 232, n. 9229 (1870) ; Holdsic. P. Z. S. 1872, p. 466; 

 Ball, Sfr. Feath. ii. p. 424 (1874) : Blyth # Wold. B. of Burm. 

 p. 145 (1875); Armstr. Str. Feath. 'iv. p. 337 (1876); Wardl. 

 Rams. Ibis, 1877, p. 467; Hume S,- Davis. Sir. Feath. vi. p. 418 

 (1878) ; Ball, Str. Feath. vii. p. 224 (1878) ; Hume, Str. Feath. 

 viii. pp. 109, 157 (Tonka) (1879) ; Oates, ibid. p. 167 (nest and 

 ego-s) (1879) ; Binyh.ibid.-p. 196 (1879) ; Leqqe, B. of Cei/l. p. 696 

 (1880) ; Gates, Str. Feath. x. p. 235 (1882) ; 'id. B. of Brit. Burm. 

 ii. p. 289 (1883) : Hume, Str. Feath. xi. p. 296 (1888). 



Columba punicea, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xiv. 2, pp. 867, 878 (1845J ; id. 

 Ann. Sr May. K. H. xix. p. 107 (1847) ; Dunn, P. Z. S. 1863, 

 p. 371 ; Gieb. Thes. Orn. i. p. 749 (1872) ; Salv. Cat. B. Strickl. 

 Coll. p. 543 (1882). 



Carpophaga punicea, G. R. Gr. Gen. B. iii. App. p. 23 (1849). 



