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but they do not appear to me ever to have been very glossy. They 

 measure'l*63"xl"25'^ and l'65"Xl'28" and seem to be very large 

 compared with the size of the bird. The two nests were said to be 

 rough structures of sticks, which could be seen throughj placed in 

 small saplings about a man's height from the ground. 



(407) Palumbus pulchbicollis.— The Darjeeling Wood-pigeon. 



Hume, No. 785. 

 I have seen but three specimens of this species, all taken on their 

 rests at Hungrum. The only two eggs I have measured are 

 1-55" X 1-15" and 1-50" X I'l?". 



The nests were of the common pigeon type, but were lined with a 

 considerable number of feathers. They were placed on small trees in 

 thick forest, one about ten feet from the ground, the other fully twice 

 as high up. 



Sub-Family Turturince. 

 (408) TtJRTUR MEENA.— Syke's Turtle Dove. 

 Hume, No. 793. {Turtur orientalis, B. M, Cat., Vol. XXI, p. 403.) 

 This bird is not common anywhere, and even less so above about 

 2,000 feet, though it is found as a straggler up to 3,000 or a little over. 

 The small size of its eggs has already been commented on as com- 

 pared with those of its very near ally T. pulchata^ and I have found 

 that this is the case with the eggs of the birds of this district, though I 

 have some which run larger than any mentioned in Hume's '' Nests 

 and Eggs;" the largest of mine is 1-37'' X 'dl", 



■ (409) TuRTUR sURATENsis. — The Spotted Dove. 

 Hume, No. 795. 

 Extremely common everywhere. 



(410) TuRTUR RisoRius. — The Indian King Dove. 

 Hume, No. 796. (Turtur dourica, B. M. Cat., Vol. XXI, p. 430.) 

 Very rare indeed. I have seen three or four specimens only in a 

 state of nature, and two or three skins from the plains. 

 (411) TuRTTJR TRANQUEBARlcus. — The Euddy Dovc- ( Turtur humi" 

 lis, B. M. Cat., Vol XXI, p, 435.) 

 Hume, No. 797. 

 Extremely common below 2,000 feet, but does not ascend very much 

 higher. I have taken hundreds of eggs which cannot be distinguished 

 from those of Turtur meena<^ though averaging somewhat larger. 



