288 PALUMBIN&E. 
vinaceous-ruddy, paling on the belly, and albescent towards the 
vent; lower tail-coverts ashy ; tail with a broad pale band. 
~ Within our limits, the Himalayan Cushat only occurs on the 
frontier near Jacobabad, and is very rare. I found it very com- 
mon in Southern Afghanistan where it breeds. 
Palumbus elphinstonii, Sykes. 
786.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 465; Butler, Done 
Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 419. 
THE NEILGHERRY WooD PIGEON. 
Length, 15 to 16; expanse, 25;' wing, 8 to 825; tail, 5°75 
to 6. 
Bill and orbits deep red, the former with a yellow tip; irides 
ochre-yellow ; legs and feet dull-red. 
Above, the head and neck ashy ; nuchal patch black, with small 
white tips; back of neck beyond this, and interscapulars, 
cupreous- “ruddy, with some green reflections ; rest of the upper 
plumage ruddy-brown, becoming dark-ashy on the rump and 
upper tail-coverts; the wings dusky, the lesser-coverts mostly. 
ruddy-cupreous, and the other coverts and quills, which are dusky- 
black, more or less edged with the same, and the outer primaries 
conspicuously pale edged ; tail dull black; beneath ashy, 
albescent on the throat ; the neck and breast glossed with green, 
and the lower abdomen and vent albescent. 
The Neilgherry Wood Pigeon is found on parts of the 
Sahyadri Range; it is not common anywhere, but appears to be 
well known at Mahableshwar. 
Genus, Palumbeena, Bonap. 
Feet fitted as much for perching as for walking on the ground. 
In form, coloring, habits, and nidification intermediate between 
Palumbus and Columba. 
Palumbeena eversmanni, Bonap. 
787.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 467; Murray’s Verte- 
brate Zoology of Sind, p. 201. 
THE INDIAN Stock PIGEON. 
Length, 11°5 ; expanse, 24; wing, 8; tail, 4. 
Bill yellowish ; skin round the eye yellowish; irides buff; legs 
with a yellowish tinge. 
Dark-ashy, with a  whitish- -grey rump ; crown and breast tinged 
with vinaceous ; two or three black spots on the wings, forming the 
rudiments of bands, and the end of the tail black, “its outermost 
feather white for the basal two-thirds of its exterior web, and 
showing a black, and then a narrow grey band towards its 
tip ; beneath the wings whitish, where dark-ashy in the 
European bird. 
