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Legs and feet a rich purplish red ; soles and edges of scales 

 hoary ; bill black ; edges of eyelids dull red ; bare orbital skin 

 pale leaden ; irides (1) a narrow ring of pale yellow, (2) a 

 broader pink ring, blackish towards both margins, (3) a 

 narrow French grey ring. 



I have this from the Khasi hills and from Khowang and 

 Joonkotollee in the Dibrugarh district, and Godwin-Austen 

 records it from the Mahadeo peak, but beyond this I have no 

 knowledge of its occurrence in Assam, Sylhet or Cachar, 



[Not uncommon in the Dibrugarh district, but so very shy 

 that I only got two specimens on separate occasions, which were 

 shot while feeding with T. meena and 2\ suratensis in paddy 

 fields in the cold weather. 



Legs lake pink ; feet dusky pink ; bill black ; irides pur- 

 plish ; orbital skin dusky blue. — J. E.. C] 



In British Burmah I only know of the occurrence of this 

 species about the higher hills of Central and Northern 

 Tenasserim, and even here it is very scarce. Ramsay, however, 

 procured it in Karenee. 



793.— Turtur meena, Sykes. 



This species occurs very sparingly in both the Western hills 

 and all over the basin, but it does not, it seems, extend to the 

 Eastern hills ; at any rate I preserved no specimens, have 

 no note of its occurrence, and cannot remember ever seeing it 

 there. 



I have this species from N.-E. Cachar, the Khasi hills, Sadiya 

 and other places in the Dibrugarh district, and Godwin- 

 Austen notes it from Harmutti in his Dafla hill list. 



[Very common in Dibrugarh, where it is found all over the 

 district, and is a permanent resident. — J. R. C] 



This species occurs in Northern Tenasserim almost through- 

 out Pegu and in Arakan, in parts of which latter I am informed 

 it is, at times, extremely common. 



795.— Turtur suratensis, Gm, 



Very sparingly distributed in the Manipur basin, and not 

 noticed at all in the hills on either side. 



In Sylhet I saw this everywhere, and it was very common 

 about Phenchugan] and Karimganj. I also saw it all across 

 Cachar. In the Dibrugarh district it is very common, and \ 



