PALUMBINA. 280 
_ The Indian Stock Pigeon occurs in Sind, towards the frontier ; 
it has not been recorded from any other portion of our limits. 
Genus, Columba, Zin. 
Feet fitted for walking on the ground, the tarsus being some- 
what lengthened ; nestle in holes of rocks, buildings, or wells ; 
capable of domestication. 
Columba intermedia, Sérick. 
788.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 469; Butler, Guzerat; 
Stray Feathers, Vol. IV, p. 3; Deccan, Stray Feathers, Vol. 
IX, p. 419; Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 202; 
Swinhoe and Barnes, Central India; Ibis, 1885, p. 130. 
THE BLUE Rock PIGEON. 
Length, 12 to 18; expanse, 23; wing, 875 to 9; tail, 5; 
bill, 0°75. 
Bill black, mealy at base above ; irides dull orange; legs dull 
reddish-pink. 
Color slaty-grey, darker on the head, throat, and_ breast, 
also on the upper and lower tail-coverts and tail, which 
last has a blackish terminal band; nuchal-feathers divergent 
at their tip, and brightly glossed with changeable green and 
amethystine; two black bars on the wings, formed by the 
greater-coverts, and the secondaries being tipped with black 
on the outer web only ; and the outermost tail-feather, with its 
external web, gradually more albescent to the base. 
The Blue Rock Pigeon is a very common permanent resident 
throughout the district, breeding from November to May; a 
favourite nesting place is a hole or a ledge in a well. 
Columba livia, Bp. 
788bis.—Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 202. 
THE Rock DOVE. 
Length, 15; wing, 9; tail, 7-2; tarsus, 0°9 ; bill at front, 0°75. 
Bill blackish ; irides orange to dark-brown; legs dull reddish- 
ink. 
Differs from Columba intermedia in having a pure white 
instead of an ash-colored rump. 
The Rock Dove occurs on the frontiers of Sind. 
SuB-FAMILY, Turturine. 
Feet fitted for walking on the ground; tail somewhat 
lengthened (typically), rounded or graduate, and with pale tips 
to the outer feathers ; of delicate make, with small heads; neck 
usually without the iridescent play of the Columbine, but fre- 
quently adorned with neck spots, asin the Palumbine, er with 
rings. 
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