PILWILLET—PINTADO 725 
At least 500 species of Pigeons have been described, and many 
methods of arranging them suggested. The most recent is that by 
Count T. Salvadori (Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxi. London: 1893), but 
though elaborated with the usual skill of that careful worker, it 
cannot be deemed satisfactory since it is based only on some 
external characters, and of these the amount of feathering of the 
“tarsus,” which is relied upon by a good many authors, receives 
but little notice. Perhaps, however, no other method is at present 
possible, for certainly the partial attempt of Garrod (Proc. Zool. 
Soc. 1874, pp. 249-259) was not very successful. The Count, 
rightly premising that “the Pigeons constitute a very homogeneous 
Order,” divides it into two Suborders, Columbx and Didi, asserting 
that the former of them “does not admit of division into easily 
definable or sharply defined groups” (but to this statement Didunculus 
proves a striking exception), recognizing it as composed of 5 
Families, Treronide and Columbide with 3 subfamilies cach; Peris- 
teridex with 7, and Gourid# and Didunculidx, each consisting of a 
single genus, and the last of a single species. Of genera he admits 
on the whole upwards of 60, to say nothing of subgenera, and it 
would be useless here to give even their names, since want of space 
forbids anything useful being said of them. The older works on 
the group, such as Temminck’s folio (Paris: 1808-11), with its con- 
tinuation (in 1838-43) by Florent Prévost, and Selby’s more modest 
Natural History of the Columbidxe (1835) are of course out of date, 
and a new monograph of the Pigeons, containing all the recent dis- 
coveries, would be a desirable acquisition. 
PILWILLET, one of the many names of the WILLET, Symphemia 
semipalmata, but also applied, according to Mr. Dresser (bis, 1886, 
p. 34), in Galveston Bay to the North-American OYSTER-CATCHER, 
Hezmatopus palliatus. 
PIMLICO, one of the names given to the Australian FRIAR- 
_ BIRD. 
PINC-PINC (or rather “'Tinc-tine”), the name which a South- 
African bird, Drymeca or Cisticola teatriz, has given itself from its 
ringing metallic cry, often uttered as it hovers in the air (Layard, 
B.S. Afr. p. 85), and a species chiefly known to English readers 
from the often-repeated copy of Le Vaillant’s figure (Ois. d’ Afr. 
pl. 131) of a beautiful nest, which he wrongly assigned to it as its 
fabricator, the real builder of the wonderful structure being 
(Layard, op. cit. pp. 86, 114) the Kapok vogel (Cotton-bird), Agi- 
thalus capensis, a near ally of Ay. pendulinus, the so-called Penduline 
Titmouse of Europe. 
PINK, otherwise Spink, a well-known name of the CHAFFINCH. 
PINTADO, a Portuguese word, meaning painted or mottled, 
