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Uah. — Nearly throughout the Peniusula of India and Ceylon (Jerd.) 

 Malabar Coast^ Madras and Southern India generally ; Khandeish, tho 

 Deccan, Sind, Rajputaua and North Guzerat. Rare in Sind, and has 

 only been found on the frontier, at Jacobabad. 



Sub-Family, PALUMBINiE, — Wood Pigeons. 



Characters same as those of the last (Treroninaa) ; tail feathers 12 

 only; tarsi short ; tail longer and more rounded. 



Gen. Palumbus. 



Characters those of the Sub-Family ; the distinguishing feature is 

 the patch on each side of the neck. 



Palumbus casiotiS, Bonap. Ic. Vlg. t. 58; Jerdon, Birds of hid. 

 iii. p. 464; Marraij, thlhh., Zool., ^'C, Sind, p. 193. — The Himalayan 

 Cushat. 



Head;, lores^ sides of the face, chin and throat bluish ashy ; nape, 

 hind neck, and sides of the neck glossed green and purple, the latter 

 predominating on the upper back and sides of the breast; neck 

 patch on each side pure fulvous or yellowish clay ; scapulars and 

 tertials dusky or hair brown, lighter on the latter; breast dull lilac or 

 ruddy vinaceous, paling on the upper abdomen to a vinous ash ; lower 

 abdomen, vent and under tail-coverts ashy white ; rump bluish ash ; 

 primaries and their coverts dusky, nearly dark brown ; the primaries 

 and some of their hindmost coverts margined with white on their ex- 

 terior web ; secondaries bluish ash, the tips dusky ; wing-coverts 

 dark ashy ; the lower series white on their outer web, and forming a 

 long'itudinal patch; winglet dark brown; tail clark ashy grey at the 

 base, followed by a broad light ashy grey band, and a broad black tip ; 

 the under surface much darker, and tho central band nearly white; 

 bill orange at the tip, whitish at the base; legs red. 



Lenfjtli. — -17 inches, wing 10*25 to 10*5, tail 7. 



Hah. — Nepaul, N. W. Himalayas, Sind, Punjab, Persia, Beloochistan, 

 and S, Afghanistan. Found in Sind on the frontier only, at Jacobabad, 



Gen. PalumbEena.— Bojuxj;. 

 Palumbaena eversmanni, Bp. ; P. 0. Pig.; Jerd. B. Ltd. iii. 



p. 407, No. 787; Hume, Sh: h\ i. 217; Murray, HdbJc, Zool, ^c, 

 Sind, p. 193. — The Indian Stock Pigeon. 



Dark ashy, with a whitish grey rump ; crown and breast tinged with 

 vinaceous, two or three black spots on the wings, forming the rudi- 

 ments of bands, and the end of the tail black ; its outermost feather 

 white for the basal two-third of its exterior web, or showing a black, 

 and then a narrow grey band towards its tip ; beneath the wings 

 whitish, where it is dark ashy in the P^uropean bird ; bill yellowish 

 translucent; legs with a yellowish tinge; skin round the eye yellow ; 

 irides buft". 



Length. — 11 5 inches, expanse 24, wing 8, tail 4. — ''Jerdon.^' I have 

 only a single specimen of this species from Shikarpoor, and in a very 

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