1845.] Drafts for a Fauna lndica. 867 



brightly glossed with the usual changeable green and reddish- purple, 

 the former predominating ; and above this the feathers are somewhat 

 rigid, and black at base, with broad isabelline tips, whitish at the end, 

 forming a large patch on each side confluent behind. Corneous portion 

 of the bill, apparently pale yellow : and legs probably pink, but fading 

 to amber in the dry specimen, of which colour are also the claws. Length 

 of wing eight and a half to nine inches. Common in the wooded region 

 of the eastern Himalaya. 



C. punicea, Tickell, Journ. As. Soc. XI, 462.* (Pompadour Wood 

 Pigeon.) General colour deep vinaceous-ruddy, weaker below, and 

 most of the feathers margined with glossy changeable green and amethys- 

 tine-purple, the former colour prevailing on the neck and sides of the 

 breast, the latter elsewhere : whole top of the head, including the occiput, 

 whitish-grey : alars and caudals blackish ; the primaries tinged external- 

 ly with grey : upper and lower tail- coverts nigrescent : bill yellow at 

 tip, its basal half blackish in the dry specimen : " irides, orange with a 

 red outer circle : feet dull lake." Length, about sixteen inches ; of wing 

 eight inches ; and tail, seven inches. 



This handsome pigeon inhabits the hill forests of Central India, also 

 those of Assam, and would appear to be tolerably common in the Island 

 of Ramree, Arracan. I have never seen it from the Himalaya. 



C. Hodgsonii, Vigors, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1832, p. 16: C. nipalensis, 

 Hodgson, Journ. As. Soc. V, 122. f (Speckled Wood Pigeon.) Above, 

 dark vinaceous-ruddy, with white specks on the medial coverts of the 

 wing : head and upper- part of front of neck cinereous, with a vinous 

 tinge in some specimens : rump, upper and lower tail-coverts, dusky- 

 ash : tail ashy- black ; the great alars brownish -dusky, the first three pri- 

 maries having a slight whitish outer margin in some specimens ; and the 

 exterior wing-coverts are greyish: nape, sides of neck, and lower parts, 

 vinaceous-ruddy at base of feathers, margined (more broadly on the side 

 of each feather of the breast) with vinous-grey, which increases in quan- 

 tity upwards, till the surface of the plumage appears solely of this hue ; 

 while the dark vinous tint predominates more and more towards the 

 belly; the red portion of each feather appears thus as an obtusely 

 pointed spot upon those of the breast, and on the feathers of the neck 



* Type of Alsocomus, Tickell. 



f Type of Dendrotreron, Hodgson. 



