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Catalogue of the Birds 



[July 



wing cover ts marked with yellow more broadly than in the other of this 

 genus. Length about 10 inches ; wing 6 ; tail rather more than 4 ; feet 

 red ; bill and irides as in others of the genus. 



I have only seen this very prettily plumaged green pigeon in a tract of 

 jungle near the sea coast, south of Tellicherry. 



289. bis. V. vni color. —"New species ? — Young of last ? 



Descr.—Ahove entirely olire green, except a shade of blue grey on the 

 back of the neck ; beneath and forehead yellow green, almost yellow at the 

 vent ; under tail coverts white, mixed with yellow and cinnamon ; tail and 

 wings as in the last. Length the same ; wings and tail rather shorter. 



I shot a single specimen of this pigeon in a grove of trees at Bimlipatam, 

 in the Northern Circars, and have never again seen it. It is of the same 

 slender make as the last species, and may be a young bird, but its very 

 different locality has led me to plane it separately for the present. 



Gen. COLUMBA. 



290. — C cenas, L.^Kabootur, H. — Blue pigeons. 



The blue pigeon abounds over all India, occasionally found in the more 

 open spaces of jungles, especially in rocky districts, and in the neighbour- 

 hood of waterfalls— but more generally in the open country, inhabiting 

 walls of villages, pagodas, wells, and any large buildings, and breeding 

 chiefly in old walls. 



Irides orange ; legs red. 



291. — C. Javamca,-^ Bronze-winged Dove. — Imperial Dove of some. 

 This very lovely pigeon somewhat approaches the turtles in form, and 



may be considered as a link joining them to the pigeons, from which 

 it differs in having rather longer tarsi, and in the outer toe being slightly 

 shorter than the inner. 



It is a denizen of the thickest jungles, coming to the more open spaces 

 to feed. I have seen it in Goomsoor, in Malabar and the Wynaad, and 

 near the top of the Neilgherries, on the Coonoor pass. It feeds chiefly 

 on the ground on various seeds, is solitary, a shy and wary bird, and of 

 very rapid flight. Irides orange. Length nearly 12 inches. 



Gen. TURTUR, Selhy. —Fachtah, U.-^Doves. 



292. ~T. tigrinus.— Col. tigrina^ Temm,-^ Chitroka Fachtah, H. 



This handsome dove is most abundant in the neighbourhood of, and 



