Bee. '20, 1922.] Birds of the Indian Empire, 187 



172 1. (]2!)o) Columba livia neglecta. Hume's Blue Rock- 



Pigeon. 



Columba neglecta Hume, Lahore to Yar., p. 272 

 (1873), (LadaJc). 



Turkestan, East Persia, Baluchistan, Afghanis- 

 tan, Ladak and N. Kashmir. 



1722. (12'.U) Columba rupestris turkestanica. The Indian 



Blue Hill-Pigeon. 



C. r. turkestanica Buturlin, Orn. Monatsb., p. 45 

 (1908), {Altai). 



Altai, Turkestan, Tibet and Northern Himalayas. 



1723. (12'.).j) Columba oenas eversmanni. The Eastern Stock- 



Pigeon. 



Columba eversmanni Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., xliii 

 p. 838 (1856), {Central Asia). 



Turkestan to N. W. India in winter. 



1724. (12'.l(i) Columba leuconota leuconota. The White- 



bellied Pigeon, or Snow-Pigeon. 



Columba leuconota Vigors, P. Z. S. I., p. 23 (1831) 

 {Himalayas.) 



Himalayas from Chitral to Sikkim. 



1725. Columba leuconota gradaria. The Tibetan 



Snow-Pigeon. 



Hartert, Nov. Zoo?,, 1916, ^. 85 {Szetschtvan). 

 From N. E. Sikkim to N. W. China. 



1726 (1207) Dendrotreron hodgsoni. The Speckled Wood- 

 Pigeon. 



Columba hodgsoni Vigors, P. Z. 8., 1832, p. 16 

 {Nepal). 



Kashmir to E. Assam, N. Burma, Shan States, 

 Yunnan and Siam. 



1727. (120!^) Palumbus palumbus casiotis. The Eastern 



Wood-Pigeon or Ring-Dove. 



Palumbus casiotis Bonap., Consp. Gen. Av., u., p. 42 

 (1854), {Himalayas). 



Turkestan to N. W. India and Sind. 



1728. (1290) Alsocomus elphinstonii. The Nilgiri Wood- 



Pigeon. 



Ptilinopus elphinstonii Sykes, P. Z. S., 1832, p. 14 9 

 {Nilgiris). 



Hill-tracts of S. W. Ijidia, Bombay to Cape 

 Comorin. 



