510 COLUMBIA. 



especially on the neck ; head greyish white ; quills blackish, edged slightly 

 with ashy ; rump and upper tail coverts dark ashy ; tail black ; under tail 

 coverts brown ; bill livid at base, yellow at tip ; legs and feet lake pink ; irides 

 orange ; orbital skin purplish pink. 



Length. 14*8 to 15 inches; tail 6: wing 8-5; tarsus i; bill from 

 gape ri. 



Hab. Tenasserim and Pegu, also in the Eastern portions of Central India, 

 extending to near the sea coast in Midnapoor, and probably outwards 

 towards Cuttack. It has been occasionally met with in Ceylon. To the east of 

 the Bay of Bengal, in Assam, Arrakan, Singbhoom and Tenasserim it is more 

 common. Gates says it is sparingly distributed over many parts of Pegu, and 

 that it is more abundant near Kyakpadien than elsewhere. It has also been 

 procured at Tounghoo. Tonka, where Hume records it from, appears to be 

 the southernmost point of its distribution. Eggs similar to those of pigeons, 

 and one in number only. 



1165. AlSQCOmUS HodgSOni (Vigors), Jerd. B. Lid. ii. p. 463, 

 No 783. Columba Hodgsoni, Vigors, P. Z. S. 1832. Dendrotreron 

 Hodgsoni, Hume^ Nests and Eggs Ind. B. p. 497. The SPECKLED WOOD 

 PIGEON. 



Above dark vinaceous ruddy, the median coverts speckled with white ; 

 rump and upper tail coverts dusky ash ; tail ashy black ; head and beneath 

 the throat in front of the neck cinereous tinged with ruddy ; nape vinous 

 grey, the feathers minutely tipped with greyish white ; wing coverts greyish ; 

 quills dusky brown, the first three primaries very narrowly margined externally 

 with whitish, not however present in all specimens ; under surface of the body 

 vinous grey ; the feathers of the neck, breast and upper abdomen mesially 

 streaked with ruddy ; .lower abdomen dark vinous ; flanks speckled with white ; 

 under tail coverts dusky ash ; bill purplish black ; irides hoary ; orbital space 

 livid ; legs and feet blackish green in front, yellow behind. 



Length* 15 inches; tail 6; wing 9 to 9*25 ; tarsus I, The female has a 

 duller tinge on the upper and lower parts. 



Hab. Himalayas to Nepaul, ranging in the latter to 10,000 feet. In 

 Sikkim, Jerdon says, it keeps to the higher ranges only. It inhabits deep 

 forests in the middle region of the Himalayas. It is not found on the outer 

 range of hills in the North- West Himalayas, but is far from rare on the Tyne 

 range and other mountains, in the interior, where Blyth was informed that it is 

 tolerably common, frequenting the pine forests. 



Sub-Family MACROPYGIIN^: , 



Cuckoo doves with short feet, long and broad tails. The head too is small ; 

 wings rather short. Plumage ruddy brown. 



