1845.] Drafts for a Fauna Indica. 851 



Peninsula of India, and specimens are occasionally met with in the vici- 

 nity of Calcutta. These three species have the feet of a deep yellow- 

 colour ; whereas in all the other Asiatic Hurrials, they would appear to 

 be bright red. 



Tr. bicincta : Vinago bicincta, J erdon, ///. Ind. Orn. PI. XXI ; Madr. 

 Journ. 1840, p. 13, (the male) ; and V. unicolor, Jerdon, ibid, (the 

 female) : V. vernans, var. Lesson's Traiti. (Chota Hurrial, Hind, — Ben- 

 gal). Green : the forehead and throat, brighter and more yellowish, 

 as are the whole under-parts of the female, passing in both sexes 

 to bright pale yellow towards the vent ; occipital region, ash-grey ; a 

 stripe of yellow along the wing, formed by the margins of the greater 

 and outer coverts; tail, grey above, with a blackish medial band on 

 all but its middle feathers ; beneath blackish, tipped -with greyish- white ; 

 and its lower coverts, cinnamon- coloured in the male, and mingled 

 dusky-ash and buffy-whitish in the female. The male is further distin- 

 guished by having a large buff- orange patch on the breast, and above 

 this a lilach band, broader at the sides. Bill, greenish-glaucous : 

 and the legs deep pinkish-red. Length eleven or twelve inches, by 

 twenty, or nearly so ; and of wing generally about six inches, rarely as 

 much as six and a half. 



This beautiful species is common to all India, but would seem to be 

 more numerous in Lower Bengal than in the Peninsula ; and it occurs 

 plentifully in Nepal, Assam, Sylhet, Tipperah, Arracan, and the Tenas- 

 serim Provinces. In Bengal, however, it is much less numerous than Tr. 

 phamicoptera ; and the flocks of the two species do not commingle. I once 

 found its nest, half-way up a small mahogany tree, in the Calcutta 

 Botanic Garden. The eggs, of a somewhat less lengthened form than in 

 pigeons generally, measured an inch and a quarter in the long dia- 

 meter. I have also obtained the young, which resemble in colouring, the 

 adult female. The voice is much the same as in Tr. phcenicoptera. 



Mr. G. R. Gray has erroneously identified this bird with Tr. vernans, 

 (L.), common in the Malay countries. The latter differs in its smaller 

 size, having the wing but five inches and a half ; in the male having 

 the entire crown and throat grey, instead of green ; in the very much 

 greater development of the lilach colour above the orange of the breast, 

 this enveloping the whole neck, whereas in Tr. bicincta, it is confined to 

 a band above the breast ; and in the tail being grey above, with a blackish 

 terminal band, and slight greyish extreme tips to the feathers ; whereas, . 



