377 TURKESTAN PIGEONS. 



vinous tint, the quill of nearly every feather being red; top of 

 head, dark red ; a few black feathers on neck ; quills of nights, 

 ruddy ; tail feathers, some white, others with ruddy quills ; legs 

 slightly feathered. Face '82 ; length, 12'3. Weight, 97oz. 



AK BASH ZAGH (White-headed Crow) ; also called Siah 

 Palang (Black Leopard). Male. Beak, light, horny ; eyes, 

 reddish brown; colour, white, with blackish cheek markings 

 like a Turbiteen, rusty black shoulders like a Turbit, and 

 coloured breast and belly within lines drawn across breast 

 and vent. Face, T25; length, 13'2. Weight, 9'6oz. 



KHUTANI (from Khotan, a town in Turkestan). Male. 

 Closely resembles the foregoing in marking ; colour, bluish 

 chequer, with red bronze wing bars. Face, 1*33 ; length, 13. 

 Weight, 8'7oz. 



KIZIL BASH (Bed Head). Female. Beak, livid, horny; eyes, 

 orange ; head, white, with reddish tinge, which becomes darker 

 on neck and breast; shoulders and nights, white; tail, white, 

 with a little bluish red in it. Face, 112 ; length, 13'8. Weight, 

 12'25oz. 



KOK BASH (Grey or Blue Head). Male. Upper mandible, 

 dark; lower, light; both with great substance. Eyes, orange- 

 red ; head and neck, silvery blue, lustred with green and red. 

 The colour is cut off across the breast like a low-cut Magpie, 

 and the remainder of the bird should, probably, be white, but 

 it has some foul feathers on body. Face, 1'07 ; length, 14*5. 

 Weight, 12'25oz. 



CHAR BASH. Male. Beak, light; eyes, orange. Yery pecu- 

 liar pigeon, black in colour, except shoulders as in a Turbit, 

 and under body from breast to vent, which are white; beak, 

 short and thick. Is crested up the forehead, from beak wattle 

 to crown of head, in shape like that of a rose-combed fowl ; the 

 feathers rise up over each eye, and meet together in the centre, 

 a form of head crest not known in Europe. Face, 1'08; length, 

 13'9. Weight, ll-6oz. 



KARA BASH (Black Head). Male. Marked like the preceding, 



