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tlie few perennial streams that flows througli the hills dividing 

 Khelat and Sindh^ I specially remarked the considerable numbers 

 of blue pigeons that towards evening' tenanted the precipices 

 bounding, in so many places, the gorge, and the majority of these 

 belonged to the present species. When grain is ripening, the latter 

 appears in large flocks about Jacobabad, but is more rarely seen 

 there during the cold season. 



788 Us.—Co\ynnb^ livia, Bp. 



I procured one undoubted specimen of this species, shot by Dr. 

 Day in the sand hills of the Roree Division, and was informed 

 that the white rumped pigeon was not uncommon there. Again 

 in the Gaj, amongst several true intermedia, I obtained one livia 

 and one or two intermediate forms. . 



The species that I described with much hesitation as 

 Columha neglecta in my Ornithology of the Yarkand Expedition, 

 must now, I am convinced, be identified with livia. The wing of 

 this latter species varies, as I find, from Scotch specimens, from 

 8*3 to 9'75; and after comparing European and Indian birds, I 

 entertain no doubt of the identity of the Ladak and Scotch 

 specimens. Cashmere birds, however, which I also class under 

 ^iz?w, differ slightly; they have somewhat less of jowre white on 

 the lower back ; and the rest of what is pure white in true livia, 

 is faintly shaded with very pale grey ; in all other respects, size, 

 general hue of plumage, they are identical with the European 

 bird. Of the Sindh birds, two are typical livia, others resemble 

 the Cashmere birds, and one again seems intermediate be- 

 tween the Cashmere bird, and the true intermedia, though nearest 

 to the former. 



Below Duryalo, inside the first range, Dr. Day saw large 

 flocks of the white backed pigeon similar to the one he shot 

 for me at Roree. 



794.— Turtur cambayensis, Gmd. 



Common throughout Sindh. 



795.— Turtur suratensis, Gmel. 



Strange to say I did not see this bird, and to tell the truth I 

 shoiild hardly have expected to find it there, but Capt. Maiden 

 informed me that it was pretty common in Upper Sindh. 



796.— Turtur risorius, L. 



Common throughout Sindh. 



797.— Turtur humilis, Tem. 



I noticed this species on one or two occasions, but only in 

 the most fertile, most highly cultivated, portions of the provinee. 



