377 TURKESTAN PIGEONS. 



vinous tint, the quill of nearly every feather being red; top of 

 head, dark red ; a few black feathers on neck ; quills of flights, 

 ruddy ; tail feathers, some white, others with ruddy quills ; legs 

 slightly feathered. Face '82; length, 12'3. Weight, 9-7oz. 



Ak Bash Zagh {White-headed Crow) ; also called Siah 

 Palang (Black Leopard). — Male. Beak, light, horny ; eyes, 

 reddish brown; colour, white, with blackish cheek markings 

 like a Turbiteen, rusty black shoulders like a Turbit, and 

 coloured breast and belly withia lines drawn across breast 

 and vent. Face, 1-25; length, 13-2. Weight, 9-6oz. 



Khtjtani (from Khotan, a town in Turkestan). — Male. 

 Closely resembles the foregoing in marking ; colour, bluish 

 chequer, with red bronze wing bars. Face, 1*33; length, 13. 

 Weight, 8-7oz. 



KiziL Bash {Red Head). — Female. Beak, livid, horny; eyes, 

 orange ; head, white, with reddish tinge, which becomes darker 

 on neck and breast ; shoulders and flights, white ; tail, white, 

 with a little bluish red in it. Face, 1"12 ; length, 13-8. Weight, 

 12-250Z. 



KoK Bash {Grey or Blue Head). — Male. Upper mandible, 

 dark; lower, light; both with great substance. Eyes, orange- 

 red; head and neck, silvery blue, lustred with green and red. 

 The colour is cut off across the breast like a low-cut Magpie, 

 and the remainder of the bird should, probably, be white, but 

 it has some foul feathers on body. Face, 1*07 ; length, 14'5. 

 Weight, 12-250Z. 



Char Bash. — Male. Beak, light; eyes, orange. Yery pecu- 

 liar pigeon, black in colour, except shoulders as in a Turbit, 

 and under body from breast to vent, which are white; beak, 

 short and thick. Is crested up the forehead, from beak wattle 

 to crown of head, in shape like that of a rose-combed fowl ; the 

 feathers rise up over each eye, and meet together in the centre, 

 a form of head crest not known in Europe. Face, I'OS; length, 

 13-9. Weight, ll'6oz. 



Kara Bash {Black Head). — Male. Marked like the preceding. 



