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Мепркаваб Lebir, Selangor, 5,200 feet, and obtained its nest and 
m former is a flim msy platform of small twigs built in a tree, 
ui or dv ve feet from the ground; the latter are pearly white, the 
shell slightly glossy and somewhat pitted; in shape they are regular 
ovals a pointed at — —— eoo. about 33 by 24 m 
The 
GENERAL RawaE.—The hills of ры Java and the Malay 
Peninsula, 
*t 15. MACROPYGIA RUFICEPS—THE LITTLE MALAY CUCKOO DOVE, 
Macropygia ruficeps (Temm.); Salvad. t.e., р. 360; Sharpe, t.c., p. 75. 
a It does not as a rule affect high Pene but 1s found in thick 
bluker, especially around deserted native gardens, as, like its congeners 
b I and Australia, it is very fon es.. It is also 
and Selangor. It is difficult to flush, but when forced to take wing 
flies with extreme a deed only for a short distance. The 
nesting habits are unkno 
LOCALITIES IN THE PENINSULA.—Perak: Larut (Wray, Butler), 
Batang Padang (Robinson) ; Selangor: Semangko Pass (Butler), 
Dusun Tua (Butler), Klang (Davison); Pahang: Gunong Tahan 
( Waterstradt). 
GENERAL Raxar.— Burma, Tenasserim, Malay Peninsula, Borneo, 
Java, Sumatra 
Maravy NIRE Uk api. 
16. COLUMBA GRISEA—THE GREY PIGEON. 
Columba grisea, G. R. Gr. ; Salvad. t.c., p. 248 ; Sharpe, t.c., p. 68. 
This species is one of the - rarest of all {чөн and but very 
few localities for it are as No e been actually 
obtained in the Malay Pad. but I believe 1 ena seen it in the 
Batang Padang mountains and on . Boden Kloss 
obtained a specimen on Pulau Taya, a ен island of the Linga group, 
and = is elsewhere known from Borneo (Pontianak), from the islands 
oft ava coast, where it has been obtained in la arge numbers, and 
17. COLUMBA PUNICEA—THE PURPLE WOOD-PIGEON, 
Columba punicea (Tick); Sawad. t.c., p. 306 ; Sharpe, t.e., p. 71. 
Eu only specimens of this species as yet obtained within our NN 
the neighbourhood of Selanga (Junk Ceylon), and it is 
doubtful if it extends much further south, except perhaps along the 
hills. 
т. Raner.—Central India to Assam, Tenasserim and the 
Northern M Malay Кыа and also Ceylon. 
April, 1905, 
