on Dr. Jerdou^s 'Birds of India.' 151 



796. TURTUR RTSORIUS. 



The note of the wild Hinged Dove (or " Collared Turtle- 

 Dove'^) of India is very different from that of the common caged 

 race, which is also smaller, contrary to what is usually seen in 

 domestic races. In captivity the two interbreed readily, and 

 pi'oduce a fertile race, which is intermediate in note as well as ia 

 size and colouring. At least it is not constantly true that the 

 hybrids between the domestic Ringed Dove and T. auritus are 

 infertile inter se, as stated by Degland (Orn. Eur. ii. p. 11)- Mr. 

 Bartlett informs me that a man in London formerly bred numbers 

 of them. Of several kindred wild races, I do not know one that 

 can be satisfactorily assigned as the true origin of the common 

 cage-bird. How about that inhabiting Asia Minor (Ibis, 1864, 

 p. 410), which is said to be identical with the wild Indian race ? 

 There are several wild races (J. A. S. B. xxiv. p. 261), to which 

 should perhaps be added Streptopelia harhara of Antinori (Cata- 

 logo &c. p. 89), if different from T. semitorquatus, Swaiuson. 

 The voice should assist in the determination. 



797. TuRTUR HUMiLis ranges to China and Formosa. It is 

 remarkable among the Doves for the sexual difference of coloui*- 

 ing, the female being doubtless the supposed smaller race of 

 T. risorius referred to by Major Franklin (P. Z. S. 1832, p. 122). 



798. Chalcophaps indica. 



No. 156 of Dr. Adams's list (P. Z. S. 1859, p. 187) is doubt- 

 less this species. It was obtained by the late M. Mouhot in Cam- 

 bogia. 



800 and 802. Pterocles fasciatus and P. exustus. 



The eggs of both these species are figured in P. Z. S. 1855, 

 Aves, pi. 78. 



801. Pterocles alchata has bred in the Zoological Gar- 

 dens. Two eggs were produced, from one only of which the 

 chick was excluded alive. When first hatched it is very Plover- 

 like — pracox, of course, but inactive, on account of its short legs. 

 It has been figured (P. Z. S. 1866, pi. ix.). 



803. Pavo cristatus. 



This species, and not P. nigripennis, is the Peafowl of Ceylon, 

 also that of Asam, and of Chittagong. The range of the Green- 



