COLUMBINE. 467 



and Turturcena, Bonaparte, from Madeira, Mauritius, and Africa, 

 comprise certain Pigeons placed by that ornithologist among the 

 Wood-pigeons. 



Sub-fam. Columbine. — Rock-Pigeons, Columbem, Bonap. 



Feet fitted for walking ; tarsus longer and less feathered. Find 

 their food mostly on the ground. 



This family comprises the blue Eock-pigeons and the so-called 

 Stock-pigeons and their allies, from some species of which our 

 domestic Pigeons have sprung. 



The first genus noticed is intermediate to the Cushats and the 

 true Pigeons, as expressed by the name. 



Gen. Paltjmb(ena, Bonap. 



Feet fitted as much for perching as for walking on the ground. 

 In form, coloring, habits, and nidification intermediate to Palumbus 

 and Columba. 



The well-known C. cenas of Europe is the type of this genus, 

 which is essentially arboreal, and migratory. 



787. Palumbosna Eversmanni, Bonaparte. 



P. cenicapilla, Blyth — Kummer-katta, II 



The Indian Stock-pigeon. 



Descr. — Dark ashy, with a whitish grey rump ; crown and 

 breast tinged with vinaceous ; two or three black spots on the 

 wings, forming the rudiments of bands, and the end of the tail 

 black, its outermost feather white for the basal two-thirds of its 

 exterior web, and showing a black, and then a narrow grey band 

 towards its tip ; beneath, the wings whitish, where dark ashy in 

 the European bird. 



Bill yellowish translucent ; legs with a yellowish tinge ; skin 

 round the eye yellow; irides buff. Length 11^- inches; extent 

 24 ; wing 8 ; tail 4. Weight 1\ oz. 



This Pigeon is a smaller bird than P. cenas, with a proportionally 

 shorter tail, barely reaching beyond the tips of the wings. It 

 differs, too, from the European bird in the rump being greyish 



