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fully fledged and nearly full sized, only showing here and 
there a little of the yellow nestling hair at the ends of the 
feathers. 
780 quat.—Carpophaga palumboides, Hume. 
I find that this species is tolerably common, at any rate at 
certain seasons, both at the Andamans and Nicobars. We have 
had a great many specimens sent up from both groups, varying 
from the type of specimen figured in the [bis as palumboides, 
with the very white head and neck to the type later described 
as Janthenas nicobarica by Lord Walden. There is really no 
doubt now (see also II, p. 498, and III, p. 327) that this latter 
is merely one stage of plumage of the present species. 
797 bis.—Turtur humilis, Zem (vera); T. humitior, 
Hume (II, p. 269; III, p. 279.) 
It is a very curious thing that, though we have now procured 
five females of this species, all presenting the same distinctive 
characteristics, no male has yet been met with. All the 
specimens as yet obtained have been procured in the immediate 
neighbourhood of Port Blair. 
Lord Walden in his recent valuable paper on the birds 
of the Philippines has pointed out what to me at any rate 
was quite unknown, viz. that the Red Turtle Dove, of Luzon, 
S. China to Shanghai, Formosa, Hainan, and Cambodia, differs 
from that of India which we have hitherto called “ humilis”’ in 
being of a much darker red, and in having the under-wing 
coverts dark ash instead of pale ash inclining to white, and 
the head uropygium, and upper tail coverts much darker ash. 
He adds :—“ The Indian bird will have to take the title of Zurtur 
tranquebarica. Hern. Obs. Zool. p. 200, ‘ex Tranque- 
baria’” (1804), while for that of Luzon, it will perhaps be best 
to retain Temminck’s title, although he does not make it quite 
clear whether he described and figured a Bengal or a Philip- 
pine individual.” 
Although Temminck doubtless says “ on trouve cette espece 
en Bengale et dans Vile de Lugon,”’ I think that the dimensions 
he gives “ Environ neuf pouces,” which is equivalent to 9°87 
English inches, show thatit was the non-Indian race that he 
was describing. No specimen of the Indian form which we must 
now call ¢ranquebarica that I have ever seen, has reached this 
dimension even in the flesh ; 9°25, with a wing of 5’:2, is the 
average of five adult males of the Indian species ; on the other 
hand the other species seems to run to nearly 10, witha wing 
of 55 or even larger, so that to my mind there is no doubt 
that Temminck’s name should be retained for the larger, 
darker, and darker under-wing-coverted Eastern species. 
