356 Mr. R. Swinhoe on the Oi-nithology of Hainan. 



carry bars on the underneck and breast, which disappear in the 

 adult male. It was also pretty common in the jungle at Nychow 

 (South Hainan). 



My specimens are smaller than Himalayan skins^ and the 

 reflections on the hind neck have more pink and less green ; but 

 if too close for specific separation, they are worthy at least of 

 the rank of a variety. A male from Hainan measures 13 inches, 

 wing 7'27, tail 7*3; a female 12'5, wing 7'2, tail 6*8. 



Du Halde {op. cit.) says, of the Hainan Columbidce, "they 

 have Turtle Doves in abundance, and two species of Cushats." 



123. TuRTUR RUPicoLA (Pall.); T.gelastes,T. & S. Faun. Jap. 

 A few of these were about the neighbourhood of Kiungchow 



city in February. 



124. TuRTUR CHINENSIS (Scop.). 



I thought to have met the T. tigrinus, Temm., of the Straits ; 

 but everywhere in Hainan the common species was the bird 

 that ranges from Canton to Shanghai. The skins I have brought 

 back do not differ from Chinese examples. This Dove is called 

 by the Hainan Chinese " Ko-tuy," the dialectic rendering of the 

 Amoy " Ka-tsuy." 



125. TuRTUR HUMiLis (Temm.). 



I shot a pair of these near Kiungchow city on the 10th of 

 February, and saw them later in other parts of the island. They 

 were not common. 



126. Chalcophaps indica (Linn.). 



On the 27th of Februaiy at Shuy-wei-sze (Central Hainan) I 

 saw and procured the only specimen of this lovely little Pigeon. 

 It flew up from the ground and perched on the low branch of a 

 tree. It is an adult male, difi"ering from the skins from India and 

 Ceylon that I have seen in being of a darker purple on the breast 

 and belly, and in wanting the violet edgings to the feathers of the 

 hind neck ; but in a series of the former I find both the tints 

 of the underparts and the amount of violet on the hind neck 

 variable in intensity and extent, and I will not attempt to sepa- 

 rate the Hainan bird on the peculiarities of a single specimen. 

 Its wing measures 5*85 inches, its tail '4, and its tarsus "92. 



