404 A FIRST LIST OF THE BIRDS 
In the first place the Southern bird averages decidedly 
smaller ; of five specimens of cupvea all fine adults, the wings 
measure, 8°87, 8°85, 8°95, 9:1, 8:9. A number of msignis 
measure, 9°6, 9, 9°3, 10, 9°93, 10, 9-5, 9°5. 
In the second place the whole lower surface in insignis is a 
pale cold grey, without a trace of vinous, and the wing lining 
is much the same colour; in cuprea, except the throat, the lower 
surface is a warm vinous grey and the wing lining isa very 
much darker slaty grey. 
In the third place the upper back, interscapulary region, 
and lesser scapulars in insignis exhibit a strong vinaceous 
purple tinge, this is entirely wanting in cuprea. 
786.—Palumbus Elphinstonii, Sy/es. 
‘Is I believe a resident, preferring dense jungle at the higher 
elevations.—F. W. B.” 
879.—Chalcophaps indica, Lin. 
« During February and March these birds abound at all 
elevations, but the greater number descend to the lower jungles 
during the rainy and winter months, when their favourite place 
of resort is the irul and bamboo thickets, which skirt the mar- 
gin of the hill forests—F. W. B.” 
An adult male measured :—Length, 10:25; expanse, 18:5; 
wine, 6:1; tail, 3°75; tarsus, 1:06; bill from forehead, 0°95. 
The bill was bright red ; legs and feet, dull purple ; irides, 
dark brown. 
The female measured :—Length, 10; expanse 16 ; wing, 5°70 ; 
tail, 3°75; tarsus, 1:0; bill from front, 0°9. 
Bill, bright red; orbital skin and legs, flesh colour; claws, 
slaty; irides, brown. 
A nestling bird is not, as Dr. Jerdon says, “dusky above, 
with a little green and barred below,” but it is a warm brown 
above with all the feathers, except those of the head and quills, 
broadly tipped with chestnut and with a coppery green lustre 
on the scapulars and the outer webs of the tertiaries and later 
secondaries and with all the primaries margined with chestnut ; 
below it is dusky barred with chestnut. 
813.—Gallus Sonnerati, Zem. 
“The grey Jungle Fowl is to be found at all elevations from 
the extreme summit of the hills, where it is perhaps more 
abundant, down to the lower slopes. About the commence- 
ment of the cold weather the males are very noisy and may 
be heard crowing defiance to each other from all parts of the 
jungle. They seem to prefer the drul* and bamboo thickets, 
* TI do not know what tree is meant. The tree known all overS. India as irul-maram, 
or irul tree is the Messua ferrea, but this is a huge tree, and Mr, Bourdillon 
above speaks of his irul as “ reed-like.’—A, O. H, 
