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Muang Lae, April 21, 1936; Phu Het, June 10, 1936; and Ban Huai 

 Oi, April 4 and 5, 1937. 



In my experience, this is the commonest of all the northern green 

 pigeons, although it may at some times and places be exceeded in 

 numbers by the pompadoured pigeon. It is characteristically a species 

 of the lowland evergreen forests but may appear in large flocks in more 

 settled districts when there is an abundance of ripe figs. 



Specimens of April 5 and 21 (Nan Province) had the gonads greatly 

 enlarged. 



Adult males had the irides with a blue inner, golden-orange outer 

 ring ; the orbital region verdigris green ; the bill with the apical half 

 cream, the basal half and rictus bright coral-red ; the feet and toes deep 

 rose-red ; the claws horny white, tipped darker. My juvenile female 

 had the irides with a gray inner, yellow-brown outer ring; the orbital 

 skin and lores mixed blue and green, the eyelids edged green ; the bill 

 greenish white, dark horny brown near the tip, with the basal half 

 and rictus red ; the feet and toes old-rose ; the claws horn. 



The adult male has the crown gray; the hindneck grayish olive- 

 green; the back and scapulars maroon; the remaining upperparts 

 bright olive-green ; the lesser wing coverts (shoulder) maroon, most of 

 the others black edged with bright yellow ; the quills black; the under- 

 parts bright olive-green, darker and mixed with white on the thighs; 

 the under tail coverts deep rufous-buff. As with other green pigeons, 

 the adult female differs in having all the maroon areas replaced by 

 green ; it has the under tail coverts pale buffy, barred with dark olive- 

 green. The juvenile female has the under tail coverts almost white, 

 the longer washed with buffy, the shorter washed with pale yellow and 

 with indistinct olive-green central streaks. 



TRERON POMPADORA PHAYREI (BIyth) 



Indian Pompadoured Green Pigeon 



Osmotreron Phayrei Blyth, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. 31, 1862, p. 344 



(Toungoo, Burma). 

 Osmotreron phayrei, Gyldenstoi<pe, Kungl. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Handl., 1913, 



p. 65 ("Vang Nun"). 

 Osmotreron pompadora phayrei, Gyldenstolpe, Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, 1915, 



p. 234 (listed) ; Kungl. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Handl., 1916, p. 154 (Pha Kho, 



Khun Tan). 

 Treron pompadora phayrei, Gyldenstolpe, Ibis, 1920, p. 739 ("Northern parts of 



the country"). — de Schauensee, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1934, 



p. 271 (MaeTaeng). 



This pigeon, like the preceding, is common and well distributed in 

 the lowland evergreen of our provinces but is perhaps not so likely to 

 appear in the less wild areas. It has never been found at Chiang Mai, 

 doubtless because of the practically complete absence of evergreen on 

 the plain, Eisenhofer sent to Hannover a male taken at Ban Huai 



