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Common throughout the more open and less elevated portions 

 of the province. 



[This is the common Dove of Tenasserim, being" met with 

 everywhere (except in forest and on the higher hills) in gar- 

 dens, fields, grassy land ; in fact wherever the country is open ; 

 sometimes singly, sometimes in pairs, sometimes in small flocks, 

 sometimes in hundreds. 



It lives on seeds of various kinds, which it generally gets on 

 the ground, though I have seen them feeding on the bamboos 

 when these were in seed. Its note and habits are the same as 

 those of its Indian ally, T. suratensis.—W. D.] 



797 bis.— Turtur humilis, Tern. (13). Descr. S. F., III., 

 279 ; IV., 292. T. kumilior, JSume. 



(Karennee, Rams.) Kanee ; Thatone; Pabyouk ; Amherst; Tavoy ; Tenas- 

 serim Town ; Pakchan. 



Generally distributed throughout the open cultivated portions 

 of the southern half of the province, and re-appearing in tho 

 extreme north in Karennee. 



[I have always found this species in larger or smaller flocks, 

 very wild and difficult to approach, keeping to thin tree or bam- 

 boo jungle, but always in the vicinity of cultivated land, feed- 

 ing on the ground, and when disturbed rising together and all 

 settling on the same tree, sometimes a leafless one, sometimes 

 one with plenty of foliage. After they have once been fired at, 

 it is almost impossible to approach them again.— W. D.] 



797 ter.— Geopelia striata, Lin. (10). 



Pakchan. 



A permanent resident in the cultivated lands in the immediate 

 neighbourhood of the higher parts of the Pakchan. 



[The general habits of this little Dove are the. same as that of 

 tigrina, except that it never occurs in flocks, being always found 

 singly or in pairs. It keeps about cultivation, and feeds on 

 the ground, walking about here and there picking up seeds. It 

 is not at all shy, but very rare in Tenasserim, even where it does 

 occur. Its note is quite unlike that of any of the other Doves 

 that I am acquainted with, and sounds like kok-a-kurr-kurr 

 softly repeated several times. It is very common about cultiva- 

 tion in the Wellesley province. — W. D.] 



The following are dimensions, &c, recorded in the flesh : — 



Mates.-— Length, 8'35 to 9*25 ; expanse, 11-75 to 1262 ; tail 

 from vent, 3"62 to 4*55 ; wing, 3*75 to 4*1 • tarsus, 0*75 to 0'8 ; 

 bill from gape, 07 to 0'75; weight, 2-0 to 2'25 oz. 



