280 Major J. Biddulph on the Birds of Gilgit. 



mens could possibly be mistaken for O. penicillata. The 

 Horned Larks arc excellent eating. 



189. TuRTUR FERRAGo, Evcrsm. 



I obtained younp; birds of this species in Gilgit as late as 

 19th October. 



191. TuRTUR CAMBAYENSIS (GmcL). 



I procured altogether four specimens of this Dove, two in 

 January, one in March, and one in October. In all, the 

 rump and upper tail-coverts are Ijrown, like the back. 



192. TuRTUR suRATENSis (Gmcl.). 



I procured specimens of this Dove from the 7th October 

 to 18th April. 



192 «. TuRTUR HUMiLis, Tcmm. 



A single specimen, a male, was brought to me on 23rd 

 June by a native, who shot it in the middle of Gilgit, and said 

 that he had seen a pair of them. The measurements were as 

 follows — Length 9*95 inches, wing 5*7, tail 4"1, tarsus 0"9. 

 Legs blackish purple; irides dark brown. 



Tliis bird is the true T. humilis of Temminck, as is shown by 

 Lord Walden in his paper on the '' Birds of the Philippine 

 Islands " (Trans. Zool. Soc. ix. pp. 219, 220). It is darker 

 and richer in colouring than the Indian Red Dove, which 

 stands as T. tranquebaricus (Herm.) and has the under wing- 

 coverts dark ashy. The most distinctive point is in the size^ 

 T. tranquebaricus averaging 9'25 inches in length, with a 

 wing 5-2 (' Stray Feathers,' vol. iv. p. 292). 



I have examined the scries in the British Museum, and the 

 difference between the two species holds good throughout, 

 a specimen from Amoy being undistinguishable from the 

 Gilgit specimen. In the Museum series are several of this 

 species obtained in Nepal by Mr. B. H. Hodgson. One of 

 them is labelled " jE. murmensis, Hodgs.,^' printed by mistake 

 JE. murwensis in the ' Zoological Miscellany,'' p. 85, and cor- 

 rected by Mr. Hodgson in his own handwriting in the British 

 Museum copy. Giebel, in his ' Thesaurus Ornithologiae ' 



