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say that this species always haunts Toghrak (poplar) jungles, and that the nest is always 

 placed on those trees. The Turki name for this Pigeon is ' Kugan' P. eversmanni is 

 probably only a seasonal visitant to Kashgharia, migrating in winter." Dr. Henderson 

 procured a single specimen at Chagra, above the Pangong Lake, at an elevation of 16,000 feet, 

 on the 8th of October. 



Genus TURTUR. 

 269. TuRTUR STOLiczK^. (Plate XIV.) 



Turtur stoliczkce, Hume ; Scully, Str. F. iv. p. 178 (1876). 

 Turtur chinensis, Severtz. Turkest. Jevotn. p. 68 (1873). 

 Turtur intercedens, Dresser, Ibis, 1876, p. 221. 



No. 949. Sanju, November 1, 1873.— Native name '' Fachtakr 

 No. 1309, s . Kashghar, Pebruary 5, 1874. 



Adult male (typo of species). General colour above light drab-brown, the sides of the back 

 washed with pale pearly grey ; wing-coverts pale pearly grey, shaded with brown, the inner, 

 median, and greater coverts being drab-brown like the back ; bastard-wing entirely pearly 

 grey; primary-coverts pearly grey, brown on the inner webs; quills dusky brown, the 

 primaries grey at the base and edged with whitish, the inner primaries for the most part 

 grey, with a dusky-brown shade towards the ends of the feathers, which are fringed with white 

 and are ashy whitish along the shaft, the secondaries entirely pearly grey, except the inner- 

 most, which are drab-brown like the back ; upper tail-coverts pale drab-brown, the long ones 

 ash-grey, brownish at the ends ; centre tail-feathers drab-brown, shaded with ashy grey, the 

 next ones grey, shaded with brown externally and white at the end of the inner web, the 

 bases dusky blackish ; the white gradually increasing towards the outer feathers, which are 

 white for nearly the terminal half, with a pronounced blackish shade near the base of the 

 inner web ; crown of head light pinkish isabelline, with a black collar round the hind neck, 

 the feathers of the nape and lateral black feathers of the collar fringed with pearly grey ; lores, 

 sides of face, ear-coverts, cheeks, and under surface of body pinkish isabelline, throat whiter ; 

 breast and abdomen, sides of body, flanks, and thighs pale pearly grey, darker ashy on the 

 under tail-coverts, the long coverts being edged with white at the tip ; under wing-coverts 

 and axillaries white, shaded with pearly grey ; quills below dusky ashy, white on the inner 

 webs. Total length 12*5 inches, culmen from feathers 0*55, wing 7*4, tail 5-7, tarsus 0*8. 



This is a large form of Turtur risorius which seems to me worthy of recognition as a 

 race. 



Dr. Scully gives the following note :— ''' This Dove is one of the commonest birds in the 

 plains of Eastern Turkestan ; it is at least three times more numerous than Turtur auritus 

 (when the latter is in the country), and is a permanent resident throughout the year. It is 

 always to be found near villages and houses, perching on trees or running about on the ground 

 and picking up grain and seeds. The birds are very tame, and in winter they would come 

 right up to the door of my room at Yarkand to be fed. A regular colony of these Doves lives 

 about the compound of the Residency at Yarkand, so I could have easily secured any number 

 of specimens had I known that the bird was supposed to be a new species. A favourite trick 

 of the Yarkand boys is to capture one of these Doves and smear its feathers all over with soot 

 mixed with oil. The bird is then allowed to fly away, and after a few days, when the feathers 



