THE BAK-TAILED CUCKOO DOVE. 
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Subfamily MACROPYGIIN^. 
Genus MACROPYGIA, Swains. 
655. MACROPYGIA LEPTOGRAMMICA. 
THE BAR-TAILED CUCKOO DOVE. 
Columba leptogrammica, Temm. PI. Col. 560. Coccyzura tusalia, Hodgs. J. 
A. S. B. xii. p. 937. Macropygia tusalia, Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 473 ; Hume, 
Nests and Eggs, p. 500 Wald. in Bl, B. Burm. p. 146 ; Wardlaw Ramsay Ibis, 
1877, p. 468 ; Hume ^ Dav. S. F. vi. p. 419 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 110. Macro- 
pygia leptogrammica, Wald. Ibis, 1875, p. 459. 
Description. — Male. Forehead^ chin and throat buff with a vinous tinge; 
crown_, nape and sides of the head vinaceous with a metallic lilac gloss ; 
back, rump, upper tail-coverts, scapulars, tertiaries and wing-coverts black 
barred with deep rufous, the hind neck glossed with metallic green or lilac ; 
quills dark brown ; central tail-feathers black barred with rufous ; the 
next two pairs ashy at base, barred indistinctly with black, and rufous at 
the end ; the three outer pairs ashy, with a black subterminal band ; breast 
and sides of the neck vinous-brown, each feather with a concealed black 
bar and a metallic green or lilac tip; abdomen, vent and under tail- 
coverts bulF ; sides of the body tinged with ashy. 
The female does not differ conspicuously from the male ; the bars are 
more developed and the colours less bright and glossy, and the breast and 
upper abdomen are barred with brown. 
Legs and feet pinkish brown or brownish red ; bill dirty purplish or 
horny brown ; irides, outer ring pink, inner ring blue. (Davison.) Iris 
white surrounded by pale lilac; orbital skin grey, with an inner rim of 
purple round the eye; bill blackish; legs purplish pink. [Wardlaw 
Ramsay.) 
Length 15 inches, tail 7*5, wing 7*2, tarsus "9, bill from gape 1. 
The Bar-tailed Cuckoo Dove occurs in the north-eastern portion of Pegu, 
where Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay procured it on the Karin hills at 4000 feet 
elevation, and on the Tonghoo hills at an altitude of 3500 feet. He also 
observed it in Karennee. Mr. de Wet sent it to me in a collection of 
birds he formed in the country near Tonghoo and the higher hills to the 
east of that town. Mr. Davison obtained it in Tenasserim on Mooleyit 
mountain and at Kollidoo further north, at both of which localities he 
states that it was rare. 
It occurs in the hill-tracts of Eastern Bengal, and along the Himalayas 
up to Nipal. It also inhabits Java ; for Lord Walden some years ago in- 
formed us that the Javan bird differed in no respect from the Indian. A 
