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Female^ length, 8-4 to 9*4; expanse, 14-75 to 15-4; wing-, 

 4-6 to 4-75 ; tail from vent, 3-3 to 3-5 ; foot, length, 1"3 to 1-5 ; 

 width, 0*9 to 1; wings, when closed, reach to within 1-3 to 

 1-5 of end of tail; bill at front, 0-85 to 0*95 j tarsus, 1-2 to 1'3 ; 

 weight, 1'35 oz. 



The irides are brown; the legs and feet, pure China white, 

 greyish on claws; the bill is very variable in color, sometimes 

 it is unifrom pale plumbeous, sometimes pale slaty grey, darker 

 at base and tip, and sometimes horny grey, or greenish grey, 

 in all cases whitish at base of lower mandible. 



I will only add to Dr. Jerdon''s description that there is a near- 

 ly black spot or line exactly in front of the anterior angle 

 •of the eye, and a similar one behind the posterior angle, 

 dividing the white supercilium from the fulvous white ear 

 coverts, which are not tipped blackish; from the gape, a very 

 narrow dark line extends below the eyes till, opposite the base 

 of the ear coverts, it expands into a moderate sized gape spot. 



When on the wing their flight is very unlike that of Galerida 

 ■cristata in whose company, or rather neighbourhood, they are so 

 commonly met with, and when they do alight, they always run 

 along the ground for fifteen or twenty yards before coming to a 

 halt ; then they stand up to their full height, and look backwards 

 at you over their shoulders. It is not often that they do fly, but 

 where closely pressed, and one must walk uncommonly quick to 

 do that, they will rise and then the huge, broad, double white 

 band upon their long wing is excessively conspicuous. I have 

 repeatedly noticed this species in my diary and need say no more 

 about it now, 



787.— Palumboena Eversmanni, B'p. 



I only once came across this, our Indian stock dove, in any 

 numbers in Sindh, and that was near Kumber in Upper Sindh; 

 here there were, for a wonder, a consideiable number of large 

 trees dotted about amongst the cultivation, and on these^ whole 

 i&ocks of this dove were clustered. At certain seasons of the 

 year, I understand, that this species is much more numerous; 

 but with the exception of the one instance above mentioned, I 

 never saw above one or two at any time, and these on only two or 

 three occasions and never in Lower Sindh. 



788. — Columba intermedia, i^trioli. 



The common blue pigeon of India was tolerably abundant in 

 the plains of Sindh during the feeding hours of the day ; but its 

 home appeared to be in the rocky valleys of the hills ; and about 

 four or five in the afternoon, I generally saw them returning to 

 these; in m.oderate sized flocks. While camped at the Gaj one of 



