Catalogue of mammals and birds of Burma / by the late E. Blyth ; with a memoir, and portrait of the author.

  • Edward Blyth
Date:
1875
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Credit: Catalogue of mammals and birds of Burma / by the late E. Blyth ; with a memoir, and portrait of the author. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Pigeons and Doves. ing bird of the Nicobars (C. insularis, nobis*) is constantly distinguishable. C. rosacea (Tcm.), from Timor, etc., differs very slightly. In Southern India and Ceylon the race is smaller, but otherwise similar (C. pusilla, nobis j). Of this small race I observed four specimens from Travancore and Ceylon in the Museum at Leyden. [Tonghoo (Z.).] 513. C. BICOLOR. Columba bicolor, Scopoli; Sonnerat, Voy. t. 103; C. alba, Graelin; C. littoralis, Tem. Mergui archipelago, Nicobar Islands, Malayan peninsula. Subfam. Columbine (Pigeons). 514. Alsocomus puniceus (J. 782). Arakan, Tenasserim, not uncommon on Kamri Island; Central India, Ceylon. It is nearly allied to Columba ianthina; J and au unnamed species of the Palumbus or Cushat group from Siam (Xiengmai) would seem to be indicated by the late Sir It. H. Schomburgk.§ [Tonghoo (TF. P.). The examples constituting the large series obtained at Tonghoo by Lieutenant W. Ramsay in no way differ from Maunbhoom and Upper Assam individuals.] *515. Colujiba litvia (J. 788). Columba livia, var. intermedia, Strickland; C. turricola, Bonap. Common, as throughout India, and only differing from the wild Eui’opean livia in having no white above the tail. It everywhere grades into the domestic Pigeon. *516. Turtur tranquebaricus (J. 797). Turtur tranquebaricus, Hermann, Obs. Zool. p. 200. Gijo (generic). Arakan. [Karen nee (TF. Ri). The Karen nee examples belong to true T. humilis of the Philippines, and not to T. tranquebaricus.'] *517. T. TIGRINUS. Columba tigrina, Tem.; Knip, Pig. pi. 43. Indo-Chinese and Malayan countries. This can hardly be considered as * J. A. S. B. xv. p. 371. X Fauna Japonica, Aves, t. lx. c. t op. cit. xviii. p. 810. § Ibis, 1864, p. 260. 10