256 NOTES UPON A COLLECTION OF BIRDS MADE 



Length in the flesh, of a breeding male, 11*25 inch; wing, 

 6-75; tail, 4*2; bill, at front, 7 inches. Of a female, shot at 

 Mussoori in 1809. Length of skin, which is not stretched, 

 but is quite as long as the bird would be in life, 9 "9 inches ; 

 wing, 6*5 ; tail, 4 inches ; bill, at front, *6 inches. 



The male was shot at Sansoo on the 28th of May. 



790.— Columba leuconota, Vigors. 



In large flocks near Derali, and I saw it also close to Gan- 

 gaotri. 



792.— Turtur rupicolus, Pallas. 



Common as far as Bairamghati. 



794.— Turtur cambayensis, Gmelin. 



In the low parts of the valley between Dhuuda and Sansoo. 



795. — Turtur suratensis, Gmelin. 



Found as high up as Moneri. 



796.— Turtur risoria, L. 



In the lower parts of the valley, such as Sansoo. 



804.— Lophophorus Impeyanus, Latham. 



Met with sparingly near the snows. It will soon be extinct 

 in this part of the world. 



806.— Ceriornis melanocephala, Graij. 



I saw skins in the hands of the natives. Found above Ban- 

 guli village, I was told. 



808. — Pucrasia macrolopha, Lesson. 



A few seen where the cover was good, but not near the snows. 



818. — Francolinus vulgaris, Stephens. 



Common in all the lower parts of the valley up to Batwari. 



855.— Lobivanellus goensis, Gmelin. 



A few seen near Dhtinda and other low parts of the valley. 

 I also saw this bird near Almorah in 1868. 



867.— Scolopax rusticola, Lin. 



One seen above the village of Banguli, at a spring in the 

 iorest. 



