CHALCOPHAPS Ii\DICA. 
(THE BRONZE-WINGED DOVE.) 
Columha indioa, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 284 (1766). 
Columha javanica, Gm. ed. Syst. Nat. i. p. 781 (1788). 
ChalcopJiaps indicus (L.), Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. p. 234 (1849); Layard, Ann. & Mag. 
Nat. Hist. 1854, xiv. p. 62 ; Jerdon, B. of Ind. iii. p. 484 (1864); Walden, Ibis, 1873, 
p. 315 ; Hume, Str. Feath. 1874, p. 269 ; Ball, ibid. 1878, vii. p. 225. 
Chalcophaps indica (L.), Kelaart, Prodromus, Cat. p. 130 (1852) ; Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1871, 
p. 397; Holdsw. P. Z. S. 1872, p. 467; Legge, Ibis, 1874, p. 26, et 1875, p. 400; 
Salvadori, Ucc. di Bom. p. 299 (1874); Walden, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1875, ix. p. 221 ; 
Hume, Nests and Eggs, iii. p. 609 (1875) ; id. Str. Feath. 1875, p. 165 ; Bourdillon, 
ibid. 1876, p. 404 ; Inglis, ibid. 1877, p. 40 ; Fairbank, t. c. p. 409 ; Hume & Davison, 
ibid. 1878, B. of Tenass., p. 424; Cripps, ibid. 1878, vii. p. 298. 
Chalcophaps hornensis, Bonap. Compt. Rend, xliii. pp. 947, 949 (1856); Wall. Ibis, 1865 
p. 393. 
ChalcopJiaps javanica (Gm.), Wall. Ibis, 1865, p. 393. 
The Green-winged Dove, Edwards, Nat. Hist. i. pi. 14; Tourterelle de Java, Buffon, PI. Enl.; 
Imperial Dove, Sportsmen in India; Green Pigeon, ^^Bronze-wing J Beetle-winged 
Pigeon, Ground-Dove, Ground-Pigeon, Europeans in Ceylon. Bam-gJmghu and Baj- 
ghughu, Bengal. ; Audi bella guwa, Telugu ; Pathaki prod, Ceylonese Tamils ; Pomha 
verde, Portuguese in Ceylon. 
Nila kohceya, lit. “ Green Dove,” Sinhalese. 
Adult male. Length lO-O to 10'5 inches ; wing 5'3 to 6'8 ; tail 3‘3 to 3-5 ; tarsus 0'9 to 1-0 ; middle toe and claw 
I'Oo to I'l ; hiU to gape 0-9. 
Examples from the hills appear to average larger than those from the low country ; I have not procured many, and it 
is probable that some may exceed 5'8 inches in the wing. 
Iris dark brown ; bill coral-red, dusky about the base ; legs and feet purplish or dark coral-red. 
Forehead and a broad stripe above the eye down to the side of the nape white, blending into the fine ashy blue of 
the crown ; whole neck, throat, and breast rich vinaceous brown, paling on the belly into reddish grey ; in some 
specimens there is a broad stripe of blue-grey from the nape down the centre of the Mnd neck, spreading out over 
the ruddy brown just above the interscapulary region ; in others there is merely a wash of this colour down this 
part; interscapulars, scapulars, wing-coverts, the tertials, and the outer webs of the secondaries metallic emerald- 
green, beautifully illumined with a coppery bronze hue when viewed exactly from above ; primaries and inner webs 
of secondaries brown, the basal portion of the inner margins cinnamon-red ; lower back glossy sepia-brown, crossed 
by two broad bands of bluish white, the lower one blending into the dark ashy black-tipped upper tail-coverts, 
the dark interspace with a few small bronze spots near the tips of the feathers ; tail cinereous blackish, the two 
outer pairs of feathers bluish white at the base and tipped with the same, having a broad subterminal blackisli 
band ; under tail-coverts at the sides bluish ashy, in the centre concolorous with the tail, tipped with bluish ashy : 
under wing-coverts cinnamon-red, and along the upper edge of the ulna the anterior webs of the feathers are pure 
white, changing to bluish ashy at the flexure of the wing, and forming a white shoulder-patch. 
Female (low country). Length 9-2 to 9-5 inches ; wing 5-1 to -5-3 ; legs and feet dusky red ; bill not so bright as in the 
male. 
Supercilium and forehead not so white as in the male, but overcast with bluish, and passing on the crown and nape 
into the deeper blue of the tips of the feathers, the bases being ruddy brown ; the throat and fore neck are light 
chocolate-brown, passing into ruddy whitish on the chin and lower breast, and darkening on the hind neck into a 
