PALUMBIN.E. 289 



The Indian Stock Pigeon occurs in Sind, towards the frontier ; 

 it lias not been recorded from any other portion of our limits, 



GENUS, Columba, Lin. 



Feet fitted for walking on the ground, the tarsus being some- 

 what lengthened ; nestle in holes of rocks, buildings, or wells ; 

 capable of domestication. 



Columba intermedia, Strick. 



788. Jerdon's Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 469 ; Butler, Guzerat ; 



Stray Feathers, Vol. IV, p. 3 ; Deccan, Stray Feathers, Vol. 24 - 

 IX, p. 419; Murray's Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 202; 

 Swinhoe and Barnes, Central India ; Ibis, 1885, p. 130. 



THE BLUE ROCK PIGEON. 



Length, 12 to 13 ; expanse, 23 ; wing, 875 to 9 ; tail, 5 ; 

 bill, 075. 



Bill black, mealy at base above ; irides dull orange ; legs dull 

 reddish-pink. 



Color slaty-grey, darker on the head, throat, and breast, 

 also on the upper and lower tail-coverts and tail, which 

 last has a blackish terminal band ; nuchal-feathers divergent 

 at their tip, and brightly glossed with changeable green and 

 amethystine ; two black bars on the wings, formed by the 

 greater-coverts, and the secondaries being tipped with black 

 on the outer web only ; and the outermost tail-feather, with its 

 external web, gradually more albescent to the base. 



The Blue Rock Pigeon is a very common permanent resident 

 throughout the district, breeding from November to May; a 

 favourite nesting place is a hole or a ledge in a well. 



Columba livia, Bp. 



788&W. Murray's Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 202. 



THE ROCK DOVE, 



Length, 15 ; wing, 9 ; tail, 7'2 ; tarsus, 0'9 ; bill at front, 075. 



Bill blackish ; irides orange to dark-brown ; legs dull reddish- 

 pink. 



Differs from Columba intermedia in having a pure white 

 instead of an ash-colored rump. 



The Rock Dove occurs on the frontiers of Sind, 



SUB-FAMILY, Turturinse. 



Feet fitted for walking on the ground ; tail somewhat 

 lengthened (typically), rounded or graduate, and with pale tips 

 to the outer feathers ; of delicate make, with small heads ; neck 

 usually without the iridescent play of the Columbince, but fre- 

 quently adorned with neck spots, as in the Palumbince, or with 

 rings. 



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