1833.3 of Borabhiim and Dholbhim. 581 
55. Cotumpa Syuvatica. Great Jungle-Pigeon, T. Length 13 
inches. Eyes orange, feet rose-color, bill horny, bluish over the nostrils ; 
head, breast, belly, a pale violaceous grey, with vinous tints; upper 
parts, wings, and tail, brilliant changeable-green, with purple and 
coppery reflections. Common in some parts. Preferring the open and 
large-timbered tracts. Wild and difficult of approach. They go gener- 
ally in small parties of four or five. The voice is deep, and resembles 
groans. Sexes alike. 
56. C. Aericoua. Foxry-Pigeon, T. Male. Length 11 inches ; eyes 
orange; bill and feet lake; head, neck, and breast reddish vinous brown ; 
forehead and belly ashy blue; back, coverts, and quills vinous chesnut, 
each feather centred dark brown ; upper tail coverts iron-blue grey ; tail 
dark-clouded brown, patch of black ; white-edged feathers on each side 
the neck. Met with in open cultivated parts. Shy and difficult of 
approach. 
57. ©. Javanica. Java Turtle? Male. Length 8 inches; tarsi 
elongated as in the ground-turtle, nevertheless perches; tail short, 
rounded, fourth quill of primaries longest; crown, pale ashy-lilac, which 
extends along the back of the neck to the back; white patch over eyes, 
enclosing forehead ; rest of head, neck, breast, and belly vinous-grey, 
with a rosy blush ; some of the feathers of the back black, edged green; 
lower down a broad bar of brown, edged black and white above and 
below ; upper tail coverts blue-grey, primaries dusky-brown; the rest 
of wings a deep brilliant green, flashing gold in various lights ; tail 
black, outer feathers white with black tip; bill red, tipped black, 
eyes black, legs flesh-color. This most elegant and diminutive species 
haunts the most impervious parts of the jungle, and is seldom seen ex- 
cept in the cool of evening, when it repairs to the open parts of 
streams and meadows. Two specimens alone seen in the Jungle Mehals, 
one of which, the female, differed merely in having the green of the 
wings tarnished with copper. 
58. The Stone or Norfolk Plover of Bewick, abounds in every open 
tract in the jungles, coming out to feed at night. 
59. Rauuus Javanicus, T. (Gallinula Javanica, Horsf, Java.) Male. 
Size and shape of the Parra enea; the claws however as in Gallinula. 
Eyes blood-red ; bill pale green, with orange-colored ridge ; nostrils per- 
vious ; whole upper parts, quills, and tail plain black, with greenish 
reflections on the coverts ; belly, vent, under tail-coverts, dusky-red ; 
inside of thighs dirty white, outside chesnut and dark-grey, legs 
dusky. A solitary specimen seen at Tumcharararo, in Borabhum. Had 
the same haunts and manners as the common Parra of Bengal. 
