30 COLUMBID^. 



Above dark vinaceous ruddy, the median coverts speckled with v\'hite ; 

 rump and upper tail coverts dusky ash ; tail ashy black ; head and beneath 

 the throat in front of the neck cinereous tinged with ruddy ; nape vinous 

 grey, the feathers minutely tipped with greyish white ; wing coverts greyish ; 

 quills dusky brown, the first three primaries very narrowly margined externally 

 with whitish, not however present in all specimens ; under surface of the body 

 vinous grey ; the feathers of the neck, breast and upper abdomen mesially 

 streaked with ruddy ; lower abdomen dark vinous ; flanks speckled with white ; 

 under tail coverts dusky ash ; bill purplish black ; irides hoary ; orbital space 

 livid ; legs and feet blackish green in front, yellow behind. 



Length. — 15 inches; tail 6; wing 9 to 9*25 ; tarsus I. The female has a 

 duller tinge on the upper and lower parts. 



Hab. — Himalayas to Nepaul, ranging in the latter to 10,000 feet. In 

 Sikkim, Jerdon says, it keeps to the higher ranges only. It inhabits deep 

 forests in the middle region of the Himalayas. It is not found on the outer 

 range of hills in the North-West Himalayas, but is far from rare on the Tyne 

 range and other mountains, in the interior, where Blyth was informed that it is 

 tolerably common, frequenting the pine forests. 



Sub- Family— MAC ROPYGIIN^. 



Cuckoo doves with short feet, long and broad tails. The head too is small ; 

 wings rather short. Plumage ruddy brown. 



Gen. Macropygia.— ^zra/«j. 



Bill long and slender ; tail long, broad and much graduated ; legs and feet 

 fitted for perching ; lateral toes somewhat unequal ; soles flat ; rump feathers 

 more or less spinous. 



42. Macropygia leptogrammica {Temm.\ Waid., Ibis, 1875, 



p. 439; OateSf B. Br. Burm. ii. p. 2g^. Columba leptogrammica, 7>ww., 

 Fl. Col. 560. Coccyzura tusalia, Nodgs, J . A. S. B. xii., p. 937. Macropygia 

 tusalia, Jerd., B. Ind. ii. p. 473, No. 791 ; Hume, Nests and Eggs hid. B. 

 p. 500; Wald., 171 BlytJis B. Bunn. p. 146; Wardlaw-Rarnsay, Ibis, 1877, 

 p. 468; Hume andDav., Str. F. vi. p. 419; Hume, Str. F. viii. p. no.— The 

 Bar-tailed Cuckoo Dove. 



Forehead buff, with a vinous tinge ; crown, nape and sides of the head vina- 

 ceous, glossed with changeable green and amethystine ; hind neck also glossed 

 the same ; back, rump, upper tail coverts and scapulars, also tertiaries and wing 

 coverts, dusky black, barred with numerous narrow deep rufous bars ; central 

 tail feathers black, barred with rufous; the next two pairs ashy at base and 

 barred indistinctly with black and rufous at the end ; the outermost feathers 

 ashy, with a broad subterminal black band ; outer web of the outermost 



