26 COLUMBIA. 



Subfamily PHABIN.E. 



This is a very ill-defined group, containing a number of African, 

 Indian, and Australian Doves, agreeing in anatomy with Caloenas, 

 and having like it 12 tail-feathers, but distinguished by the 

 restriction of the feathers with a metallic lustre to the mantle, and 

 by the absence of neck-hackles. 



Genus CHALCOPHAPS, Gould, 1843. 



One of the most beautiful of the Indian Columbidce, the Bronze- 

 winged, or, as it is sometimes called, the Emerald Dove, easily 

 recognized by its bronzed metallic green mantle, is the sole repre- 

 sentative within our area of Chalcophap*, a genus containing about 

 6 species and langing from the Himalayas and Malabar to Australia. 

 The bill is slender; the wings moderately long, with the 2nd and 

 3rd quills longest ; the tail, of 12 feathers, is considerably shorter 

 than the wing, and slightly rounded ; the tarsus slender and bare, 

 about equal to the middle toe in length, and the feet adapted for 

 ground habits. Sexes differing in plumage. 



1291. Chalcophaps indica. The Bronze-winged Dove. 



Columba indica, Linn. Syst. Nat. i, p. 284 (1766^. 



Chalcophaps indica, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xiv, p. 859 ; id. Cat. p. 237 ; 



Jerdon, B. I. iii, p. 484; Blyth, Ibis, 1867, p. 151; Beacun, 



ibid. p. 332; Godw.-Aust. J. A. S. B. xxxix, pt. 2, p. 112; 



Ball, S. F. i, p. 80 ; Walden, Ibis, 1873, p. 315; Hume, N. $ E. 



p. 509 ; id. S. F. ii, p. 269 ; Blyth $ Wald. Birds Burm. p. 147 ; 



Hume $ Bourd. S. F. iv, p. 404 ; Ii ylis. S. F. v, p. 40; Fairbank, 



ibid. p. 409 ; Butler, ibid. p. 503; Hume fy Dav. S. F. vi, p. 424 ; 



Anders. Yunnan Exped., Ai:es, p. 667; Ball, S. F. vii, p. 225; 



Cripps, ibid. p. 298 ; Hume, Cat. no. 798 ; Leyye, Birds Ceyl. p. 714 ; 



Vidal, S. F. ix, p. 75; Binyham, ibid. p. 195 ; Butler, ibid. p. 421 ; 



Reid, ibid. p. 500 ; Davison, S. F. x, p. 408 ; Taylor, ibid, p. 464 ; 



dates, B. B. ii, p. 297 ; Barnes, Birds Bom. p. 293 ; Hume, S. F. 



xi, p. 300 ; Gates in Humes N. $ E. 2nd ed. ii, p. 363 ; Salcadori, 



Cat. B. M. xxi, p. 514. 

 Chalcophaps au<nista, Bonap. Consp. Av. ii, p. 92 (1854) ; Blyth, 



Ibis, 1868, p. 133; Ball, S. F. i, p. 81. 



Ram yhuyu, Raj-yhuau, Beng. ; Andi-bella-yuwa, Tel. ; Pathaki prdu, 

 Tarn., Ceylon; Nila Kobeya, Cing. ; Ka-er, Lepcha; Mati-Kupohu, 

 Assamese ; Gyo-Sane, Burmese. 



Coloration. Male. Forehead and supercilia white, passing into 

 the dark bluish grey of the crown and nape ; sides of head and 

 neck all round deep vinous red ; a few grey feathers or sometimes 

 a narrow grey band down the back of the neck ; upper back, wing- 

 coverts, scapulars, tertiaries, and outer webs of secondaries metallic 

 emerald-green changing to coppery bronze ; small wing-coverts 

 near edge of wing vinous grey, separated by a narrow white bar 

 from the green ; greater primary-coverts, primaries, and secon- 

 daries dark brown, inner borders of quills near base and the wing- 

 lining chestnut ; lower back coppery bronze with two pale grey 

 cross-bands, the hinder bordering the rump, which is dark grey 



