(27) COLUMBA OENAS EVERSMANNI Bp. 
THE EASTERN STOCK-PIGEON. 
(PuatE 13.) 
Columba eversmanni Bp., Compt. Rend., XLIII p. 838 (1856); Scully, 
J.A.S.B., LVI p. 86; Sharpe, Yarkand Miscel. Av., p. 116; Salvadori, 
Cat. B.M., XXI p. 264; Blanf., Avi. Brit. 1, IV p. 31; Sharpe, Hand- 
List, p. 69; Inglis, J.B.N.H.S., XII p. 429; id. ib., XIV p. 561; Nicol 
Cumming, ib., XVI p. 691; Ward, ib., XVII p. 943; Whitehead, ib., 
XX p. 966. 
Palumboena eversmanni Bp., Compt. Rend., XLIII pp. 838, 948 (1856) ; 
Jerdon, B.I., III p. 467; Hume, Str. Feath., I p. 217; id., Lah. to 
Yark., p. 271; Scully, Str. Feath., IV p. 175; Hume, ib., VIII p. 109; 
id., Cat. no. 787; Barnes, B. Bom., p. 288; Reid, Str. Feath., X p. 59. 
Palumboena oenicapilla Blyth, J.A.S.B., XXVI p. 219. 
Columba fusca Severtz, Str. Feath., III p. 431. 
Vernacular Names. Kamar-Kular, Hin. ; Ban Parawa, Bagar, Behari ; 
Pahari Kabutar, Hin. Lucknow; Kapoth, Chah-i-kapoth, Baluchi; Kaftar, 
Persian. 
Description.—Adult male. Upper part of the head and neck ashy- 
grey, tinged with vinous or lilac; cheeks, ear-coverts, lores, chin, and 
throat dove-grey, the three first sometimes tinted with the same colour ; 
hind-neck and interscapulars ashy-grey, glossed with green and a little lilae- 
red ; sides of neck the same but with a very well marked red patch of glossy 
purple-red, visible as a distinct patch in the living bird or in well-made skins ; 
back and scapulars greyish-ashy ; lower-back pure white, rump and upper 
tail-coverts slaty-grey, the feathers margined with dark brown; tail brownish- 
black at the tip, slate-grey at the base with a dark band, fairly well marked 
except on the central rectrices, about one and a half inches from the tip; 
outer webs of outermost rectrices white below the black tip. Wing-coverts 
dove-grey, all except the primary-coverts margined with ashy-grey like the 
back; bases of outer row of median and greater secondary-coverts black 
and showing as two bars across the wing; primaries and outer secondaries 
ash-grey, the base of the inner web of the first primary white ; inner secondaries 
like the back, but with a broad bar of black. 
Breast dark dove-grey, strongly tinged with lilac or vinous-pink, abdomen 
and under tail-coverts dove-grey, darkest on the latter ; under wing-coverts 
and axillaries white, edge of the wing grey, and under aspect of quills very 
pale grey-brown. 
Colours of soft parts. ITrides light yellow, golden-yellow, yellowish-brown, 
or light brown; bill pale greenish, slaty at the base and amber-green at the tip; 
legs and feet pale fleshy-pink, purplish, or yellowish-fleshy, nails horny-brown. 
‘* Skin round the eye yellow; irides buff” (Jerdon). 
Measurements 11 to 12 in. (about 280 to 305 mm.); wing, greatest 
length 8.25 in. ( = 209.5 mm.), least 7.5 in. (= 190.5 mm.), and average of 
twenty-five birds 7.78 in. ( = 197.6 mm.); bill at front, .68 in. to 73 in. 
( = 15.4 to 18.5 mm.) and from gape about .95 in. ( = 24.1 mm.); tarsus, 
about .95 in. ( = 24.1 mm.). 
With the exception of one bird from Turkestan with a wing of 
