3. CROCOI'US. 



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(1877) ; Anders. Yunn. E.vped. p. 6C4 (1878) ; Hume 8? Davis. Str. 

 Feath. vi. p. 410 (1878) ; Hume, Str. Tenth, viii. p. 109 (1879) ; 

 Tiraut, Bull. Com. Ayr. et Ind. Cochinch. (3) i. p. 140, n. 24o (1879) 

 (Cochinchine); Binyh. Str. Feath. ix. p. 194 (1880); Hume 8,- Inglis, 

 Str. Feath. ix. p. 2-J7 ( l.s*0) ; Gates, Str. Feath. x. p. 2:',.', (1^*2) ; 

 eVZ. B. Brit. Burin, ii. p. 307 (1883) ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. 

 (2) iv. p. 610 (1887) ; Hume, Str. Feath. xi. p. 290 (1888) ; W. L. 

 Selat. B,is, 1892, p. 86 (type). 

 Treron phcenicoptera, Schomb. (nee Lath.') Ibis, 1864, p. 249 (Siam) ; 

 Schley. Mus. P.-B. Columbae, p. 45 (part.) (1873) ; Gieb. Thes. 

 iii. p. 652 (1877). 



Similar to C. phoenicopterus, but is distinguished by having the 

 green of the head more extended on the crown and the grey of the 

 head more reduced ; the green band at the base of the tail above 

 better defined and contrasting strongly both with grey tip and with 

 grey upper tail-coverts : " legs and feet bright chrome-yellow ; bill 

 light bluish or greenish, tinged strongly on cere, gape, and base of 

 lower mandible with green ; irides with an inner ring of bright 

 blue and an outer ring of buffy pink ; one female has the irides 

 deep crimson-lake, with an inner ring of bright blue " (Hume). 

 Length 13 to 13'5 inches, wing ~-2o to 7 - 6, tail 4-3 to 4-8, bill 076, 

 tarsus 0-9 to 1-1. 



Female. Like the male, only a little smaller. 



Bab. Burmese countries, to Cachar on the north, to Cochin China * 

 on the east, and Moulmein on the south. 



a. Ad. ak. 



b. ? ad. sk. 



c. Ad. sk. 



d-g. c? 2 ad. sk. 

 h,i. 3 2 ad. sk. 



h-n. Ad. sk. 



os. 3 2 a d- sk. 



t-u: 3 2 ad. sk. 

 X. 3 ad. sk. 



i/,z. 3 ad. sk. 



a' 2 ad. sk. 

 V. 2 ad. sk. 



c',d'. 3 2 a d. sk. 



e. 3 ad. sk. 



f. 3 ad. sk. 



Burma. 



Upper Burma, Jan. 



Ava. 



Pegu, Feb. (E. W. Oates). 

 Lower Pegu, Feb. 



Thayetmyo. 



Ton<rhoo, Jan., Feb., Nov. 

 {R. G. W. R.) 



Pahpoon, Jan. ( W. Davison). 



SittangRiver,Feb. ( W.Daoi- 

 sim). 



Thatone, Dec. , Jan. ( W.Davi- 

 son). 



Thatone. Dec. ( If. Davison). 



Tham Zaik, Dec. ( W. Davi- 

 son). 



Myawadee, Jan. ( TV. Davi- 



S'l//). 



Attaran R., Dec. | W. Davi- 

 son). 



Moulmein, Dec. ( W. Davison). 



Hume Coll. 



Dr. J. Anderson [O.l 



W.T.Blanford, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 Hume Coll. 

 E. W. Oates, Esq. 



[C]. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Tv, eeddale Coll. 



Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 



Hume OolL 



Hume Coll. 



* Mr. Oates lias given Cochin China as a locality inhabited by C. viridi- 

 Jrons, but I must say that, although 1 have included among the specimens of 

 this species one from Cochin Cuina, it looks very much like ft phcenicopterus. 



