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outer pairs ashy, with a black sub terminal band ; vent and undertail- 

 eoverts buff. In the female the bars are more developed and the colours 

 less conspicuous ; the breast and abdomen barred with brown ; total 

 length about 15 inches ; the legs brownish red; bill horny-brown. 



Hab. — South-East Himalayas, extending through Nepal and Bhu- 

 tan to the Khasia hills ; Burmah and through Malay peninsula to Java. 



The single specimen obtained for the garden did not survive more 

 than a month. 



(110) THE CRESTED PIGEON. 

 (OCYPHAPS LOPHOTES— [Temm.) ) 



Description. — Slightly larger than the common spotted dove 

 (No. 103) ; head, face, throat, breast and abdomen delicate ashy grey ; 

 the occipital crest, which is long, pointed and directed backward, black, 

 the length of the plumes diminishing towards the back ; back of the 

 neck, back and sides brown, washed with olive ; wings variegated ; tail 

 feathers tipped with white. 



Hab.— Australia. It affects marshy tracts in preference to others. 



Length of life in captivity. 

 A pair have been living since 1880. 



(Ill) THE EMERALD DOVE. 



(CHALCOPHAPS INDICA— {Linn.) ) 

 Bengali — Ram ghugu. 

 It is popularly known as the bronze- winged green dove, and in the 

 Calcutta bird market it is not unfrequently called the coral-beaked dove. 



Hab. — All over India, Ceylon, the Andamans, Burmah, Southern 

 China, Cochin China, Siam, the Malayan peninsula, and almost all the 

 islands of the Malay Archipelago. 



Length of life in captivity. 



< Like most other animals, the mortality is great amongst the new 

 arrivals, but those that once become reconciled to confinement live long 

 and well. Among the large number now exhibited, some have been 

 living since 1880 or 1881. 



(112) THE BRONZE- WINGED PIGEON. 

 (PHAPS CHALCOPTERA-(ia^.) ) 



Description. — Forehead dirty buff ; a curvilinear line under the eye 

 and the chin yellowish white; crown of the head and occiput dark 

 brown; sides of the neck grey; back of the head and all the upper 

 surface brown; wings brown with paler edges; a patch of coppery 



