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Treron st. thoma?, G. R. Gr. {nee Gm.) List of Gal lines B. M. p. 2 

 (1844) ; id. Gen. B. ii. p. 467, n. 2 (part.) (1844) ; id. Cat. Hodgs. 

 Coll. B. M. p. 421 (1846) ; Rchnb. Syn. Av. Columbaria?, ff. 1343-44 

 (1847). 



Vinago phoenicoptera, Strickl. Ann. 8,- Mag. N. H. xiii. p. 38 (1844). 



Treron phoenicoptera, Strickl. Ann. Sf Mag. N. H. xiv. p. 116 (1844) ; 

 Blyth, Joum. A. S. B. xiv. 2, p. 849 (1845) ; id. Ann. Sf Mag. N. 

 H. xix. p. 45 (1847) : id. Cat. B. Mm. A. S. B. p. 229, n. 1384 

 (1849) ; G. B. Gr. Gen. B. App. p. 23 (1849) ; Adams, P. Z. S. 

 1858, p. 497, 1859, p. 188 (Cashmere & Ladak) ; Blyth. P. Z. S. 

 1863, p. 371 ; Gray, Cat. Hodgs. Coll. B. M. 2nd ed. p. 66 (1863) ; 

 Wall. Ibis, 1865, p. 375; id. J. f. O. 1866, p. 277 ; ? Blanf. Ibis, 

 1870, p. 469 (Ava) ; Schley. Mm. P.-B. Columbae, p. 45 (part.) 

 (1873) ; Gieb. Thes. Orn. i'ii. p. 652 (part.) (1877) ; Salv. Cat. B. 

 Strickl. Coll. p. 556 (1882) ; Sclat. List Vert. An. 8th ed. p. 445 

 (1883) ; Tristr. Cat. Coll. B. p. 46 (1889) ; Hartert, Kat. Vogel- 

 samml. p. 191 (1891). 



Treron nudirostris, Rchnb. {nee Sic.) Syn. Av. Columbarise, f. 1349 

 (1847). 



Crocopus phcenicopterus, Bp. Consp. Av. ii. p. 11 (1854) ; id. Compt. 

 Rend, xxxix. p. 874 (1854), xl. p. 216, n. 19 (1855) ; id. Coup 

 d'eeil Ordr. Piq. pp. 5, 54, n. 19 (1855) ; Rchnb. Tatiben, i. 

 p. 106, t. 242. f. 1349 (1862), ii. p. 181, t. 242. ff. 1343-44 {ex 

 Gould); Novit. Suppl. t. iv. f. 48 {ex Knip) (1862); Jerd. B. 

 hid. iii. p. 447 (1864) ; Beavan, P. Z. S. 1864, p. 376 ; Blyth, 

 Ibis, 1867, p. 147 ; Beav. Ibis, 1868, p. 370 ; G. R. Gr. Hand-list, 

 ii. p. 222, n. 9088 (1870) ; Lloyd, Ibis, 1873, pp. 399, 400, 414; 

 Adam, Str. Feath. i. p. 390 (1873) ; Ehces, P. Z. S. 1873, p. 674 ; 

 Blanf. Ibis, 1874, pp. 91, 92; Hume, Nests $ Eggs, iii. p. 491 

 (1875) ; Ball, Str. Feath. ii. p. 433 (1874) ; Hume, Str. Feath. iv. 

 p. 2 (1876), viii. p. 109 (1879) ; Hein. | Rchnw. Konwncl. Mm. 

 Hein. Orn. p. 279 (1890;. 



Treron phcenicopterus, G. R. Gr. List B. Brit. Mus. Columba?, 

 p. 13 (1856). 



Crocopus phoenicoptera, Sousa, Mus. Nac. Lisb. Columbae, p. 6 

 (1873). 



Adult male. Forehead, lores, and throat greenish ; top of the 

 head, occiput, and ear-coverts ash-grey; neck all round and upper 

 breast yellow-green ; a narrow grey band across the upper part of 

 the mantle ; rest of the mantle, lower back, scapulars, innermost 

 smaller wing-coverts and tertiaries olive-green ; upper tail-coverts 

 tinged with grey ; lower breast, abdomen, sides, and axillaries light 

 grey : feathers of the Hanks grey, darker towards the apical portion 

 and edged with grey ; tibial feathers bright yellow ; under tail-coverts 

 chestnut with broad whitish edges at the tip ; smaller upper wing- 

 coverts near the bend of the wing dull purple ; greater wing-coverts 

 margined with pale yellow, forming an oblique bar across the wing ; 

 quills brown-black, with narrow pale yellow edges; under surface of 

 the wings lead-grey, the under wing-coverts with a slight greenish 

 tinge on the edges ; tail above grey, more or less tinged with olive- 

 yellow at the base ; tail underneath black, with a broad grey apical 

 band, occupying about two fifths of its length : " bill whitish ; feet 

 deep yellow ; irides carmine, with an outer circle of smalt-blue " 



