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already noticed, S. F., V., 113 n , in doing" so he pointed out 

 differences, which prove the birds referred to, to have belonged 

 to griseicapilla. There is no reason to suppose that true insig- 

 nis ever occurs in Tenasserim. It seems, however, extremely 

 likely that a large Pigeon of this type, which occurs in vast 

 multitudes in August at Mergui, of which we have hitherto 

 failed to procure specimens, is C. badia, Raff., of which we pro- 

 cured specimens further south in the Malay Peninsula. 

 And here I may notice that Ely th remarks loc. cit : 

 " In 'the Leyden Museum I remarked that C. insignis, Hodgs., 

 appeared to be the same as C. badia, Raffles, the former being 

 rather brighter in coloring, while C. lacernulata, Tern,, of 

 Sumatra and Java, is rather smaller with a distinct grey cap." 

 ei On this Lord Tweeddale remarks : tl C. lacernulata is, as yet, 

 only with certainty recorded as an inhabitant of Java." 



Now the bird from the- Malay Peninsula that I call badia, 

 and that I suspect to be a seasonal visitant to the southernmost 

 portions of Tenasserim, cannot for an instant be confounded with 

 insignis, and agrees, to a great extent, with what Blyth says of 

 lacernulata, which species, indeed, I had always supposed to be 

 identical with badia. This is Raffles' description. 



" A larger species than the preceding, to which it seems to 

 have considerable affinity. It is sixteen inches in length, of 

 a chestnut-red on the back and wing-coverts. The under parts 

 of a bluish vinous tint, which extends round the neck, and 

 becomes a bluish-grey on the head and cheeks., The wing- 

 feathers are of a deep brown approaching black ; those of 

 the tail, which are long and nearly equal, are almost black, 

 with a cinereous tinge at the tips. The lower tail-coverts are 

 white ; bill and feet red ; legs feathered nearly to the toes. 

 There is no naked space round the eye, but the circle of the 

 eyelids is bright red. The iris is white.'" 



Now this is not a bit like insignis. Note the bluish grey on 

 the head and cheeks, i.e., the grey cap, and the "chestnut red 

 on the back and wing-coverts," nothing of which is ever seen 

 in insignis. 



But both are conspicuous in my birds, which answer absolutely 

 to Raffles' description, except that the lower tail-coverts 

 are in all my specimens not white, but extremely pale buff. 



My birds measure in the skin : — 



Length, 15 to 1575; wing, 8'0 to 8'5 ; tail, 6*5 to 7'0 ; 

 bill, straight from frontal bone to tip, 1*25 to 1'37; tarsus, 

 1'2 to 1*3 ; bare in front for a shade less than # 5 only. 



There is a distinct grey cap about the same colour as in 

 griseicapilla, but extending further down the occiput and 

 behind the eye than is usual in that species ; the entire 



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