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appear to be a rich maroon-colour. Length of wing 5' 7 

 inches^ tail 3'8, culmen 1'25, tarsus 1*2, hind toes (without 

 claw) 0-9 and 0-4, fore toes 075 and 0-6. 



In the shape and pale colour of its hill, and in the smallness 

 of its nasal bristles, this species resembles Venilia, Xylolepes, 

 and some other of the pseudo-genera of Woodpeckers, and 

 will j)robably be included in the genus which will absorb them 

 when the genera of Woodpeckers are intelligently studied. 



27. Carpophaga ianthina. 



Mr. Pryer remarks that one of the specimens has a large 

 white patch between the shoulders. 



28. Treron sieboldi. 



29. turtur ortentalis. 



An example sent by Mr. Pryer from the Loo-choo Islands 

 agrees with others from China and Japan. This species is a 

 summer visitor to South-eastern Siberia and the North Island 

 of Japan, wintering in South China and Formosa. In the 

 other Japanese islands it is a resident; and as the skin sent 

 from the Loo-choo Islands is dated 31st May, the species 

 probably remains the whole year in that locality. It has not 

 occurred on the Philippine Islands, but its range extends to 

 Burma and Cochin China. 



30. TURNIX OCELLATA. 



A skin of a " Bustard Quail,^' as Indian sportsmen call 

 it, is undoubtedly the Indo-Malayan Hemipode. This is 

 another instance of the Malayan affinities of the fauna of the 

 Loo-choo Islands. None of the mainland Chinese Hemi- 

 podes have black throats, and no Hemipode is found in 

 Japan. Compared with T. plumbipes in the Hume collec- 

 tion from Salangore, in the Malay peninsula, the Loo-choo 

 bird is a shade redder in the upper parts, and a trifle less so 

 on the underparts. 



The specimen sent is not sexed, but, having a black throat, 

 it is presumably a female. Swinhoe states (P. Z.S. 1871, 

 p. 401) that the female of his T. rostrata has a black throat 

 in summer ; but there are no skins dating between March 



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