68 Lieut. R. G. Wardlaw-Ramsay’s 
where it was nesting in June. I only preserved one speci- 
men, which, however, agrees well with Indian specimens. 
Wing 3°75 inches. 
(784) Patumsus casioris, Bonaparte. 
Columba palumbus, Linn. ap. Blyth, J. A. S. B. 1845, p. 865. 
The Himalayan Cushat is not generally common in the 
Hariab district. In one spot, however, in the pine-forest 
between the main range of the Safed-Koh and the village 
of Ali Kheyl a large flock could always be found in the month 
of April. By the middle of the next month they had all paired. 
I found several nests, but was not able to obtain the eggs. 
(788) CoLuMBA sp. ine. 
I regret that I was unable to brmg home any skins of the 
Rock-pigeon of Afghanistan ; for I am now unable to say for 
certain to which species it belongs. I at first identified it 
with C. rupestris, Pall., but subsequently came to the con- 
clusion, from the great variation in plumage in large numbers 
shot by the officers, that they were nearly all hybrids from 
intermixture with the tame pigeons of the villages. 
TURTUR FERRAGO. 
Columba pulchrata, Hodgs. in Gray’s Zool. Misc. p. 85 
sine descr. (1831). 
Columba ferrago, Eversmann, Add. ad Zoogr. Ross.-As. 
ii. p. 17 (184:2). 
Turtur vitticollis, Hodgs., apud Hend. & Hume (Lah. to 
Yark. p. 274). 
Turtur pulchrata, Hodgs., apud Hume, 8. F. vi. p. 421; 
Legge, B. of Ceylon. 
Turtur orientalis (Lath.), apud Dresser, B. of E. pt. lv. 
It seems to me that Eversmann was the first author who 
applied a name to an Asiatic Turtledove which is distinctly 
described as having the tips of the rectrices white. The last 
few words of his description, however, which terminates as 
follows, “rectricibus apice albis, exceptis duabus mediis totis 
albis,” are not quite intelligible to my mind. If the specimen 
he described had the two centre tail-feathers entirely white, 
it must have been an accidental variety, but of the white-, and 
