3. Crocopus chlorogaster. 



Columba militaris $ , Temm. Pig. pi. 2 (1808) ; id. Hist. Nat. Pig. 



i. pp. 39, 139 (part.) (1813); Desrn. Diet. Sc. Nat. xl. p. 363 



(part.) (1826). 

 Columba phoenicoptera $ , Vieill. N. D. xxvi. p. 391 (1818) ; Wagl. 



Syst. Av. Columba, sp. 1 (part.) (1827). 

 Columba s. thomge $ , Vieill. (nee Gm.) N. D. xxvi. p. 392 (1818). 

 Vinago militaris 2 , Steph. Gen. Zool. xi. 1, p. 109 (1819) ; Cuv. 



R'egn. An. 2nd ed. i. p. 492 (part.) (1829); Jerd. {nee Temm.) 



Maclr. Journ. xii. p. 12, n. 286 (1840). 

 Vinago chlorigaster, Bli/th. J. A. S. xii. 1, p. 167, note (1843); 



Strickl. Ann. $ Mat/'. N. H. xiii. p. 205 (1844) ; Blyth, Ann. $ 



Mag. N. H. xiv. p. 116 (1844). 

 Treron jerdoni, Stickl. Ann. 8,- Mao. N. H. xiii. p. 38 (1844) ; G. R. 



Gr. Gen. B. ii. p. 467, n. 5 (1844). 

 Treron chlorigaster, Strickl. Ann. q Mag. N. H. xiii. p. 205 (1844), 



xiv. p. 116 (note) (1844) ; Blyth, J. A. S. B. xiv. p. 850 (1845) ; 



id. Ann. &/ Mag. N. H. xix. p. 45 (1847): id. Cat. B. Mus. 



A. S. B. p. 229, 'n. 1385 (1849) ; Kelaart, Prodromm, Cat. p. 130 



(1852) ; Layard, Ann. &; Mag. N. H. xiv. p. 57 (1854); Hart I. 



J. f. O. 1854, p. 158 ; G. R. Gr. List B. Brit. Mus. p. 14 (1856) ; 



Schleg. Mus. P.-B. Columba?, p. 46 (1873) ; Salv. Cat. B. Strickl. 



Coll. p. 556 (1882). 

 Vinago jerdoni, Hartl. Erst. Nachtr. Verz. p. 16, n. 175 (1846). 

 Treron chlorogaster, G. R. Gr. Gen. B. App. p. 23 (1849) ; Irby, 



Ibis, 1861, p. 233 (Oudb); Wall. Ibis, I860, p. 375; id.J.f. O. 



1866, p. 277 ; Gieb. Thes. Orn. iii. p. 650 (1877). 

 Crocopus chlorogaster, Bp. Consp. Av. ii. p. 12 (1854) ; id. Compt. 



Rend, xxxix. p. 874 (1854), xl. p. 216, n. 21 (1855); id. Coup 



d'ceil Ordr. Pit/, pp. 5, 54, n. 21 (1855) ; Rchnb. Tauben, i. p. 106 



(1862), ii. p. 181, Novit, Suppl. t. iv. f. 4 (ex Knip) (1802) ; G. R. 



Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 223, n. 9090 (1820) ; Holdsw. P. Z. S. 1872, 



p. 465 ; Adam, Str. Feath. i. p. 390 (1873) ; Swinh. &; Barnes, 



Ibis, 1885, p. 130. 

 Crocopus chlorigaster, Jerd. B. of hid. iii. p. 448 (1864) ; Ball, Str. 



Feath, ii. p. 423 (1874) ; Hume, Nests Sf Eggs, iii. p. 492 (1875) ; 



Butl. Str. Feath. iv. p. 2 (1876) ; Hume, ibid. ; Fairb. Str. Feath. 



iv. p. 261 (1876), v. p. 408 (1877) ; Ball, Str. Feath. vii. p. 224 



(1878); Hume, Str. Feath. viii. p. 109 (1879); Legge, B. Ceyl. 



p. 722 (1880) ; W. L. Sclat. Ibis, 1892, p. 80 (tvpe). 

 Treron chlorogastra, Tristr. Cat, Coll. B. p. 45 (1889). 



Adult male. Similar to C. phcenicopterus, but the crown almost 

 wholly grey, very slightly tinged with greenish on the forehead ; 

 underparts light yellowish green ; tail above grey, with no yellow- 

 green tinge at the base, or with scarcely a trace of it. 



Female. Similar to the male, but the purple tinge near the beT>d 

 of the wing very slightly marked, and the under tail-coverts of a 

 grey colour in the middle, more or less mixed with chestnut. 



Ilab. Peninsula of India, as far north as Nepal, and also Ceylon. 



