JOURNAL 



ASIATIC SOCIETY 



Drafts for a Fauna Indica. 

 (Comprising the Animals of the Himalaya Mountains, those of the Valley 

 of the Indus, of the Provinces of Assam, Sylhet, Tipperah, Arracan, and 

 of Ceylon, with Occasional Notices of Species from the Neighbouring 

 Countries *J 

 By Ed. Blyth, Curator of the Asiatic Society's Museum, %c. %c. 



No. 1. The Columbidce, or Pigeons and Doves. 

 Order IV. Gyratores, Pr. Bonap. Gemitores, McGillivray. 

 This consists but of a single family, that of the Pigeons, — 



Fam. Coluwbidje, — 

 Which subdivides into three marked sub-families, viz. — Treronince, 

 or arboreal fruit pigeons, — Gourince, or ground pigeons, — and Columbince, 

 or ordinary pigeons and doves. 



* The object of publishing the present series of Monographs of various groups 

 of animals, is to elicit, as much as to impart, information that might be incorporated 

 in a general work now in preparation ; and it is, therefore, earnestly requested that 

 observers, interested in the subject, will favour the author with any additional facts 

 or corrections that may occur to them, and that they will also endeavour to settle any 

 questions that are still at issue, and in short, to render the future conspectus of Indian 

 animals as complete as circumstances will permit of. In the class of birds, it may be 

 here remarked, that any information on the niditication and colour of the eggs of 

 species generally, and of the song-notes of the smaller Inscssores, will be particu- 

 larly acceptable. 



* No. 168. No. 84, New Series. 5 u 



