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of this group, but may be known by the upper tail coverts and tail, 



which are colored like those of the male. 



The Thai orange-breasted green pigeon, Treron bicincta praeter- 



missa Robinson and Boden Kloss, has not yet been recorded from our 



provinces but is almost certain to occur. The adult male differs from 



the pink-necked pigeon in having the crown and throat green; the 



nape and hindneck gray ; the under tail coverts deep rufous-buff ; the 



tail gray with a broad black band across the center, s© that there is a 



broad, instead of very narrow, gray terminal band. The adult female 



is separable by having the nape gray and the tail pattern like that of 



the male. 



treron phoenicoptera viridifrons biyth 



Tenasserimese Yellow-footed Green Pigeon 



Tr[eron] viridifrons Blyth, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. 14, 1845 [=1S46], 

 pp. 849-850 (Tenasseriin provinces; type specimen from Mergui, fide Sclater, 

 Ibis, 1892, p. 86). 



Crocopus viridifrons, Gyldenstolpe, Kungl. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Handl., 1913, 

 p. 65 (Phrae). 



Crocopus phoenicopterus viridifrons, Gyldenstolpe, Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, 



1915, p. 234 (listed) ; Ibis, 1920, p. 783 (Mae Yom river, Mae Rua).— db 

 Schauensee, Pi'oc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1928, p. 575 (Chiang Mai). — 

 Deignan, Journ. Siam. Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., 1931, p. 166 (Chiang Mai) ; 

 1936, p. 85 (Chiang Mai).— Riley, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 172, 1938, p. 102 

 (Ban Nam Khian). 



Sphenocercus pseudo-crocopus Gyldenstolpe, Orn. Monatsb., vol. 24, 1916, p. 29 



(Pang Hua Phong, northern Thailand). 

 Sphenocercus pseudo-crocopus, Gyldenstolpe, Kungl. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Handl., 



1916, p. 152 (Pang Hua Phong) ; Ibis, 1920, p. 470 (Pang Hua Phong). 

 Crocopus phaenicopterus viridifrons, Gyldenstolpe, Kungl. Svenska Vet.-Akad. 



Handl., 1916, p. 153 (Mae Rua). 

 Sphenurus pseudocrocopus, Gyldenstolpe, Ark. for Zool., 1926, p. 109 (Pang 



Hua Phong, Khun Tan). 

 Crocopus phoenicopterus annamensis, de Schauensee, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 



Philadelphia, 1934, p. 271 (Mae Taeng). 



In Stockholm are six examples collected by Eisenhofer at Khun 

 Tan, one of which, dated 1914, is the so-called Sphenocercus pseudo- 

 crocopus. At Chiang Mai I found this bird irregularly common dur- 

 ing the rainy season, especially so during the month of September, 

 and rarely present at other times. I also have taken it at Ban Mae 

 Sun, Ban Sop Mae Chaem, Sala Mae Tha, Ban Pong Sanuk, Ban Pa 

 Luat, Ban Mae Mo, Ban Mae Sariang, Ban Nong Mae La, Ban Tong 

 Yang, and Muang Fang. 



This species is less a bird of the forest than other fruit pigeons. It 

 occurs rather in cultivated districts with scattered groves of tall trees, 

 coming on occasion even into the larger towns and especially to the bo 

 trees in temple precincts. Where fruit is abundant it eats to excess : 

 I have shot examples so fat and so gorged with figs that they burst open 

 upon striking the ground. 



