70 Ornithological Notes from Afghanistan. 
La tourterelle brune de la Chine, Lath. Gen. Syn. Birds, 11. 
pt. 2, p. 647, ex Sonn. (1783). 
Columba orientalis, Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 606, ex Sonn. 
(1790). 
Columba rupicola, Pall. Zoogr. Rosso.-As. i. p. 566 (1811). 
Columba meena, Sykes (partim), P.Z.S. p. 149 (1832). 
Columba agricola, Tickell, J. A. S. B. ii. p. 581 (1838). 
Columba gelastes, Temm. Pl. Col. 550 (1888). 
Columba (Turtur) gelastes, Temm. et Schleg. Faun. Jap. 
pl. 60 B (1850). 
Columba viticollis major, Temm., fide Bp. Consp. Gen. Av. 
u. p. 60 (1857). 
Columba viticollis minor, Temm., fide Bp. loc. cit. 
Turtur meena, Sykes, ap. Jerd. B. of I. ii. p. 476. 
Columba gelastes, Temm. et Schleg., apud Middend. Sib. 
Reise, Vogel, p. 189. 
Columba (Peristera) turtur, L., var. gelastes, Temm., apud 
Schrenck, Vogel des Amurlandes, p. 389. 
(796) Turrur risorius (Linn.). 
Observed for the first time on the 10th June. Not nearly 
so abundant as the last species. 
(802) Prerocies Exustus, Temm. ? 
I saw a pair of Sandgrouse at the same hour on three suc- 
cessive evenings flying over the camp in the same direction. 
(809) LopHopHorus rmpryaNus (Lath.). 
Several people told me that they had seen Monauls on the 
Safed Koh and the Peiwar range; and the natives said that 
there were plenty of them; but I was unfortunate in never 
seeing one. Several officers had bought skins from the 
natives, I was told. 
(819) FRancoxinus pictus, J.& S. 
Occurs close to our district; but I have never seen or 
heard of it actually in the valley. 
(820) CaccaBis cHuKAR, J. H. Gray. 
Scarce. I obtained one nest on the 16th June. In the 
Kurrum valley the Seesee, Ammoperdix bonhami, was com- 
