COLITMBA EVERSMANNI. 



(INDIAN STOCK-DOVE.) 



1. Columba fusca, Pall. Zoogr. Ross.-As. i. p. 567 (1811, nee Miill.). 



Columba cenas, var., Licht. in Eversm. Reise nach Buchara, p. 132 (1823). 



Columba cenas, var. tatarica, Wagl. (ubi 1 ?), fide Bp. Consp. Gen. Av. ii. p. 48 (1857). 



Columba eversmanni, Bonap. Compt. Bend, xliii. p. 838 (1856). 



Palumbasna eversmanni, id. ut supra et p. 948 (1856). 



Columba cenicapilla, Blyth, J. As. Soc. Beng. xxvi. p. 219 (1857). 



Palumboena eversmanni (Bp.), Jerdon, B. of Ind. iii. p. 467 (1863). 



Columba fusca, Pall., Severtz. Turk. Jevot. p. 68 (1873). 



Columba fusca, var. j3. brachyura, Severtz. J. f. O. 1875, p. 180. 



Columba intermedia, Dresser, Ibis, 1876, p. 321, nee Strickland. 



1. Columba cenas, Blanf. E. Persia, ii. p. 269 (1876). 



Ccelotreron eversmanni (Bp.), Heine & Reichen. Nomencl. Mus. Hein. Orn. p. 275 (1890). 



Columba fusca, Taczanowski, Faun. Orn. Sib. Orient, p. 732 (1893). 



KoeJc-Koepteri, Tekke (Zarudny) ; Kugan, Turki (Scully) ; Kummer-kulla, Hindu (Jerdon). 



Figura unica. 

 Henderson and Hume, Lahore to Yarkand, pi. xxxi. 



Ad. C. cence similis, sed statura minore, coloribus pallidioribus : capite vinaceo tincto : uropygio cinereo-albo 

 fere albo : cauda cum fascia cinerea indistincta : plumis in colli lateribus rufescenti-seneo tinctis : 

 pedibus purpureo-carneis : rostro corneo-fusco : iride flava. 



Adult Male (Sirsa, Punjab). Resembles C. cenas, but is paler and smaller; head tinged with vinaceous; 

 rump whitish grey, nearly white; tail with the grey band scarcely discernible, and the metallic 

 feathers on the neck are glossed with coppery chestnut ; legs purplish fleshy : bill horny brown ; iris 

 yellow. Total length about 12 inches, culmen 0"75, wing 7'75, tail 4 - 5, tarsus 1*0. 



Obs. A male from Tschinas is rather larger, the wing measuring 8 - l inches, and shows a tendency to 

 C. cenas in having the rump rather more of a bluish-grey tinge. The female does not differ from the 

 male in plumage. 



The present species is found from Transcaspia and Afghanistan to Turkestan and Northern India, 

 ranging north as a rare straggler to Siberia. 



In Transcaspia, according to Mr. Zarudny (Ois. Transcasp. p. 61), it is common on the plain 

 of Ahal-Teke, where it frequents gardens and bush-covered valleys near the rivers. He met with 

 it in the gardens of the villages Gjarmaou, Firouse, and Koulkoulaou, and early in August he 



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