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767.—Alauda gulgula, Franklin. 
This species was evenly distributed, and tolerably abundant 
over the entire district, frequenting open cultivated and waste 
ground, 
A male specimen measured in the flesh :— 
Length, 6°5; tail from vent, 2°4; expanse, 11°8; wing, 3°65 ; 
tarsus, ‘98; hind toe and claw, 1:1; bill from gape, °82. 
Trides, dark brown; bill, light brown ; legs and feet, chocolate 
brown. 
774.—Osmotreron bicincta, Jerdon. 
This Pigeon was very abundant in the evergreen forests 
lying between Elephant Point and China-Ba-keer. It also oc- 
curs in tolerable abundance in the thin tree jungle and hedges 
on the borders of forest land. The following are the dimen- 
sions of four specimens recorded in the flesh :— 
Length, 11°5 to 12; expanse, 19 to 205; tail from vent, 4 to 
44 ; wing, 6°L to 6°65; tarsus, *88 to 9; bill from gape, °85 to 9. 
Trides with an inner ring of pale blue and an outer zone 
of salmon red; bill, dull green to nares; remainder, light 
horny green ; legs and feet, lake red. 
780.—Carpophaga nea, Lin. 
This species occurred sparingly in the forest jungle near 
China-Ba-keer. A male bird shot in December measured in 
the flesh :— 
Length, 17; expanse, 29; tail from vent, 5°9; wing, 9:35; 
tarsus, 1-1; bill from gape, 1°5. 
Trides, deep red; bill, dusky purple, darker at base; legs 
and feet, lake red. 
782.—Alsocomus puniceus, 7%ckell. 
This Pigeon was very rare. I have only met with a single 
specimen, ‘which I shot ‘in the dense Ever green Forest in the vi- 
cinity of China-Ba-keer. Its stomach contained a quantity of 
large plum-colored drupes. It was afemale, and measured in 
the flesh :— 
Length, 15:75; expanse, 26; tail from vent, 6:1; wing, 
8°65; tarsus, 1; bill from gape, 1:05. 
Irides, orange; bill, purplish, tipped with horny; legs and 
feet, purplish red. 
795 bis—Turtur tigrina, Tem.—(Vide S. F., I., 461), 
This Dove was one of the commonest birds I met with. Wher- 
ever the country is suitable for them, they occur in the greatest 
profusion. ‘They frequent open thickets, and loose underwood 
and hedges, seeking their food on the ground, and roosting 
during the heat of ‘the day in the thickets. The following is a 
