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COLUMBID/?7. 



No. 9231 ; Blf , East. Pers. p. 268 ; Ihime, Str. F.\. 2lS ; vii. 296; Mur- 

 ray, Hdhk. Zool., S)C., Siiid, p. 193.— The Rqck Dove. 



Columba livia. 



Differs from C. inlermedia in having a pure white instead of an ash 

 coloured rump. 



Hah. — S.-E. Europe, Sind, Beioochistan, S. Persia, S. Afghanistan, 

 Arrakan, and some parts of Burmah. Breeds in December, laying, like inter- 

 media, two white eggs. 



38. Columba rupestris, Fall., Zoogr. Rosso. As. pi. 25 ; Jerd. 

 B Ind. iii. p, 470, No. 789. Columba livia, apud Adatus, B. Ind.^ No. 208. 

 — The Blue Hill Pigeon. 



Like Columba intermedia, but much paler in colour, the head and sides of 

 the face being ashy grey instead of dark slaty grey ; wing coverts and upper 

 back light grey ; middle of back white ; upper tail coverts dark ashy grey ; 

 quills grey, black shafted and darker at the tips and on the outer webs ; a 

 patch of greyish black on the wing, forming two bands ; tail dark grey at the 

 base, broadly tipped with black and a subterminal broad white stripe ; outer 

 rectrices wdiite, tipped with black ; chin ashy grey ; neck glossed with purple ; 

 upper breast glossed with green ; bill black; cere grey ; irides red. 



Length. — 127 inches; tail 5 ; wing 8. 



Hab. — Kumaon and Mussoorie. Habits similar to those of the two preced- 

 ing, is much prized with the next for the table ; found in as considerable 

 number as the Blue Rock. 



39. Columba leiiconota, Vigors, p. z. S. 1S31, p.331; Gould, 



Cent. Ei))i. B. pi. 59; Jerd., B. Ind. iii. p. 47 1, No. 790; Hnvu\ Str. F. 

 iii. p. 256. — riie White-bellied or Imperial Rock Pigeon. 



