chiefly to the Birds of India. 173 



of Gould^s ' Birds of Europe^). A.n example of this bird in full 

 summer dress, with the black back, obtained in the district of My- 

 munsing by my late friend Mr. R. W. G. Frith, was presented to 

 the Asiatic Society not long after my arrival in India ; so that I 

 have long been acquainted with it in all its phases of plumage. 



B. RAYi, Bonap. (Ibis, 1868, p. 312). In all probability 

 the young bird noticed should rather have been referred to B. 

 viridis (v. cinereocapillus). 



OsMOTRERON, from Sumatra. Like O. malabarica, but with 

 grey cap and cheeks, no breast-patch and chocolate-coloured 

 lower tail-coverts in the male. One of several closely allied 

 races. Leyden Museum.. 



Carpophaga insignis has on the average the wing 1 inch or 

 1'5 in. longer, but is otherwise very similar to C. lacernulata of 

 Sumatra and Java, which sometimes has a distinct grey cap. C. 

 badia and C. insignis seem to be the same, but the former is rather 

 brighter in colouring, C. lacernulata being a little smaller. 



Carpophaga rosacea, from Timor, hardly differs from C. 

 cenea and C. sylvatica, if these can be fairly separated. Of C. 

 pusilla, nobis, I remarked four specimens from Travancore and 

 Ceylon in the Leyden Museum. 



CoLUMBA viTiCENSis, Pcalc, froDi the Fiji Islands, is a true 

 Palumbus. 



Macropygia leptogrammica, referred to by Dr. Jerdon in 

 his notice of M. tusaJia (B. Ind. no. 791), is not an inhabitant 

 of Java, but of Celebes. 



TuRTUR MEENA (Ibis, 1868, pp. 203, 320). Qu. T. rupicolus ? 

 (c/. Ibis, 1867, p. 47, 1868, p. 355). 



" CoLUMBA TURTUR," from the Philippines (in Leyden Mu- 

 seum), is like Turtur auritus, but darker, the black predominating 

 on the upper parts ; lower tail-coverts white. 



Turtur lugens, of Abyssinia, is like T. auritus, but much 

 darker, with no white margins to the neck-patch ; dark ashy 

 belly and lower tail-coverts. 



PucRASiA MACROLOPHA is figured with the sincipital tufts as 



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