PALUMBINZE. 287 
Carpophaga enea, Lin. : 
780.—C. sylvatica, Tick—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, 
p. 455 
‘THE GREEN IMPERIAL PIGEON. 
Length, 18 to 19 ; expanse, 30 ; wing, 8 to 9; tail, 6. 
Bill slaty, red at the base above, and bluish-white at the tip ; 
irides and the nude orbits crimson ; legs lake-red, pale on the 
soles. 
Head, neck, and whole under parts, pearl-grey, purer on the 
crown and breast, and tinged elsewhere, and sometimes on the 
crown, with ruddy-vinaceous ; back, rump, wings, and tail, shining 
coppery-green, brightest on the tail, and the quills slaty-grey 
without, dark blackish-grey within; under tail-coverts deep 
chesnut, with which some of the feathers of the vent and flanks 
are also sprinkled ; chin, orbital feathers and round the base of 
the bill, white ; axillaries buff. 
Jerdon states in his “ Birds of India” that the Green Imperial 
Pigeon is abundant in Central India, and that he found it breed- 
ing there in April and May. I have myself never met with it. 
Famizy, Columbide. 
Bill horny at the apex only; tail, in almost all, of twelve 
feathers ; tarsus lengthened ; feet more fitted for walking on the 
ground, 
Sus-FAMILY, Palumbine. 
Feet fitted for perching, the tarsus being somewhat shorter, and 
the feet more arboreal than in the succeeding groups ; tail some- 
what longer and more rounded. 
Genus, Palumbus, Kaup. 
Sides of neck adorned with a patch of light-colored feathers. 
Palumbus casiotis, Bonap. 
784.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol]. II, p. 464; Murray’s Verte- 
brate Zoology of Sind, p. 201. 
THE HIMALAYAN CUSHAT. 
Length, 17; expanse, 80; wing, 10°25 ; tail, 7 ; bill at front, 
0°75. 
Bill orange, whitish at base ; irides yellow ; feet red. 
Above brownish-grey; the head, cheeks, rump, and upper 
tail-coverts, pure ashy; nape, sides ef neck, and shoulders 
glossed with changeable green and purple; on each side 
of the neck a large patch of fulvous or clayey-cream 
color; edge of the wing, and a white longitudinal bar, formed 
by the outer edges of the primaries, white ; winglet and primary- 
coverts blackish; tail grey at the base, blackish at the tip; 
beneath, the throat is pure ashy, the foreneck and _ breast 
