Elphinstone’s Pigeon. 
Ptilinopus Elphinstonii , Sykes, Proc. Comm. Sci. and Con*. Zool. Soc. p. 149, 1832. 
Carpophaga Elphinstonii (Sykes), Gray. 
Columba Elphinstonii (Sykes), Neilgherry Wood Pigeon, Blyth, Drafts of a Faun. Ind. (ColumbicUe), p. 22. 
This rare bird has been figured from Colonel Sykes’ own specimen; there is another specimen, 
a female, in the Right Honourable the Earl of Derby’s Collection. 
Colonel Sykes states that it is a rare bird in Dukhun, and met with only in the dense woods 
of the Ghauts. Not gregarious. Stony fruit found in the stomach. Sexes alike. Flight very 
rapid. The lateral skin of the toes is very much developed. 
Mr. Jerdon noticed it in the dense woods on the summit of the Neilgherries, in small parties 
or single. It is a retired and wary bird. He adds that he found various fruits and small shells in 
its stomach. 
The upper parts are fuscous-brown; the head, neck, and lower parts, ashy; nape, black, the 
feathers marked with a white spot at the tip; interscapularies, ruddy; neck and breast glossed 
with emerald-green, the rump with ashy; the first, second, third, fourth, and fifth primaries having 
their outer webs emarginated; irides, ochre-yellow. 
Habitat, Dukhun. 
Total length, sixteen inches. 
