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ing bird of the Nicobars ( C. insularis, nobis*) is constantly distinguishable. 

 C. rosacea (Tern.), from Timor, etc., differs very slightly. In Southern India 

 and Ceylon the race is smaller, but otherwise similar (C. pusilla, nobis f). 

 Of this small race I observed four specimens from Travancore and Ceylon in 

 the Museum at Leyden. 

 [Tonghoo (Z.).J 



513. C. BICOLOH. 



Columba bicolor, Scopoli; Sonnerat, Voy. t. 103 ; C. alba, Gmelin; C. littoralis, Tern. 

 Mergui archipelago, Nicobar Islands, Malayan peninsula. 



Subfam. Columbine (Pigeons). 



514. Alsocomtjs ptjtstcetjs (J. 782). 



Arakan, Tenasserim, not uncommon on Hamri Island; Central India, 

 Ceylon. It is nearly allied to Columba ianthina ; % and an unnamed species of 

 the Palumbus or Cushat group from Siam (Xiengmai) would seem to be 

 indicated by the late Sir K. H. Schomburgk.§ 



[Tonghoo (W. R.). The examples constituting the large series obtained 

 at Tonghoo by Lieutenant W. Ramsay in no way differ from Maunbhoom 

 and Upper Assamjndividuals.] 



*515. Columba livia (J. 788). 



Columba livia, Tar. intermedia, Strickland ; C. turricola, Bonap. 



Common, as throughout India, and only differing from the wild 

 European Mvia in having no white above the tail. It everywhere grades into 

 the domestic Pigeon. 



*516. TuB-TUB TBANftUEBABICUS (J. 797). 



Turtw tranquebaricus, Hermann, Obs. Zool. p. 200. Gyo (generic). 

 Arakan. 



[Xaren nee (W. R.). The Karen,nee examples belong to true T. humilis 

 of the Philippines, and not to T. tranquebaricus.'] 



*517. T. IIGEINTJS. 

 Columba tigrina, Tem. ; Knip, Pig. pi. 43. 

 Indo-Chinese and Malayan countries. This can hardly be considered as 



* J. A. S. B. xv. p. 371. t op. cit. xviii. p. 816. 



% Fauna Japonica, Aves, t. lx. c. § Ibis, 1864, p. 250. 



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