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grey, — the shafts black, — darker near their tips. Second quill longest : 

 outer webs darker than the inner. Some of the larger wing-coverts, 

 those covering the tectrices [tertiaries ?], together with the 6 or 7 last 

 tertiary feathers, bear a patch of greyish-black, which when the wing 

 is extended forms two indistinct and somewhat curved bands. Tail 

 dark grey at base, broadly tipped with black, and having between 

 these two colours a broad strife of ivliite (wanting in the common 

 C. intermedia ) Inferior coverts white, blending with grey towards 

 the anterior margin of the wing. Length of tail 5 in. The quills 

 (when the wings are closed) reaching to its tip. The exterior tail- 

 feathers are pure white from their bases on the external web, 

 finished off at tip with black ; the inner webs being grey at base, 

 as obtaining in the intermediary feathers." 



Any collector who has the opportunity should endeavour to verify 

 this particular race, the habitat of which would seem to be inter- 

 mediate to that of the * Snow Pigeon' (C. leitconota) and that of 

 the ' Common Blue' of the plains of India: the white rump alone 

 would readily distinguish it from the latter. 



Note on the Green Pigeons of Ceylon. The Columba pompadoura, 

 Gmelin, founded on pis. XIX and XX of Brown's ' Illustrations of 

 Zoology' (1776), has long been sought to be verified ; and at length, 

 it would appear, successfully by the Prince of Canino, iu a small 

 species, as originally described, of the size of C. olax, Temmiuck.* 

 Consequently, the Treron malabarica var. pompadoura of Mr. 

 Layard's catalogue is a distinct bird, which may bear the specific 

 name flavogularis, nobis. It is very like Tr. malabarica, 

 Jerdon, being of the same size as that species, with an equal deve- 

 lopment of the maronne colour upon the mantle of the male; but 

 is readily distinguished by its yellowish-green forehead, pure yellow 

 throat, and by having no buff patch on the breast of the male ; it is 

 also further remarkable, that whilst the male of Tr. malabarica 

 has the usual deep cinnamon-coloured lower tail-coverts, that of Tr. 

 flayogularis has them green with broad whitish tips as in the 

 female, and as in both sexes of Tb. chloroptera of the Nicobars. 

 Tr. pompadoura is a much smaller species, with the quantity of 

 maronne colour on the mantle of the male greatly reduced, and 



* Comples Uenclus, lorn. XXXIX, 875. 



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