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the black tipping only about 0*73 wide ; the tail is a good 
deal rounded, the exterior feathers being 0-43 shorter than 
the central ones ; the legs and feet bright red, a colour 
which they retain in all its brightness in the stuffed speci- 
men ; claws dusky. This specimen is peculiarly interesting, 
because, as far as I am aware, it is the only Indian killed one 
that has been preserved. It may be noticed that the tips 
of all the primaries are brown, and that in the later ones 
this colour extends as a marginal band a considerable 
distance along the outer web. 
This species never occurs near Massuri, nor in any 
other part of the Himalayas, to the best of my belief, below 
12,000 feet. I have never before seen a specimen. 
O. H.] 
790. Columba leuconota. Vigors. 
A single specimen was obtained in June near Dras, where 
it was very abundant ; it was a female, and measured — 
length 13*0, expanse of wing 34)'5, and length of do. 8-9. 
IG.H.-] 
During the summer this species is doubtless, as Dr. 
Jerdon remarks, chiefly found at heights of from 10,000 to 
14,000 feet far in the interior of the Himalayas, but during 
the winter it descends to the lower ranges, is common about 
Simla, Massuri, Murree, &c., and the valleys below them, 
at elevations of from 3500 to 7000 feet, and occasionally 
stragglers are killed quite at the foot of the Hills. This 
species is not confined to the North West. I have it from 
the Sutlej Valley, east of Chini, from Kumaon, beyond the 
Dhuj, on the borders of Nepal, and again from the Hills 
north of Darjeeling, but from exactly what locality I am 
ignorant. 
792. Turtur vitticoUis, Hodgson. 
Turtur rupicola (Pallas, apud Jerdon). 
This species was met with in considerable numbers in 
the Sind Valley, Kashmir, feeding on the mulberries. It 
is there called Kookail." [G. H.'] 
I have unfortunately no copy of Palias^s Zoographia 
