1845.] Drafts for a Fauna Indica. 875 



cutta, where it inhabits every patch of garden ; T. risorius keeping 

 generally a little away from houses. Its coo is musical and pleasing. 

 Mr. Jerdon mentions having " seen a nearly albino variety once or 

 twice, of a pinkish-white colour throughout." This species has been 

 erroneously identified with the T. chinensis (Col. chinensis, Scopoli, 

 vel C. risoria, var. B, Latham), founded on la Touterelle grise de la Chine 

 of Sonnerat, by whom it is correctly figured. The latter is distin- 

 guished by its larger size, having the wing and tail respectively six 

 inches long; by the deep ash- colour, instead of white, of its lower tail- 

 coverts ; and especially by having the back and wings plain unspotted 

 dark brown, with merely a slight tinge of grey at the bend of the wing 

 only ; the spotting of the nape is precisely similar. This bird inhabits 

 China, and the Society possess a specimen of it from Chusan. 



T. meena : Col. meena, Sykes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1830, p. 149: C. 

 agrkola, Tickell, Journ. As. Soc. II, 581 ; very closely allied to, if not 

 identical with, C. orientalis, Lath., founded on la Tourterelle brune de 

 la Chine of Sonnerat, which is certainly also C. gelastis, Temminck, pi. 

 col. 550. (Kullah Fachtah, Hind. ; Sdm G'hoogoo, Beng. ; H'hulgah, 

 of the Mahrattas; Gyo-pein-doo-ma, Arracan.) (Fox-coloured Turtle- 

 dove). Vinaceous-brown, lighter on the belly; more or less ruddy, ashy, 

 or even duskyish, above ; the rump and upper tail- coverts deep grey ; 

 vent and lower tail-coverts lighter grey ; crown and forehead more or 

 less ashy, passing to whitish towards the bill ; throat also whitish in 

 some specimens ; on the sides of the neck a patch of black feathers, mar- 

 gined with greyish-white, forming a series of three or four lines of the 

 latter hue ; scapularies, and a greater or less proportion of the wing- 

 coverts, black, broadly margined with rufous all round their tips ; coverts 

 of the secondaries pale bluish-ash, at least in some specimens ; winglet, 

 and primaries with their coverts, dusky, the primaries slightly edged 

 with whitish ; tail dusky- ash, its outer feathers successively more broad- 

 ly tipped with whitish-ash, whiter on the outermost and beneath ; irides 

 orange. Length about eleven inches and a half ; of wing commonly 

 seven inches. 



This bird is also pretty generally diffused throughout India, and occurs 

 upon the Himalaya as a summer visitant, arriving in pairs towards 

 the end of March, as I am informed by Capt. Hutton. Mr. Jerdon 



