44 TRERONIDiE. 



(3) i. p. 140, n. 240 (1879) ; Bingh. Str. Feath. ix. p. 194 (1880) ; 



Oates, Str. Feath. x. p. 235 (1882) ; id. B. Brit. Burm. ii. p. 103 



(1883) ; Hume, Str. Feath. xi. p. 291 (] 888) ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. 



Gen. (2) v. p. 619 (1888) (Tenasserim) ; Hartert, J. f. O. 1889, 



p. 433. 

 Treron phayrei, Wall. Ibis, I860, p. 375 ; id. J.f. O. 1866, p. 272 ; 



Gieb. Thes. Orn. iii.p. 652 (1877) ; Tristr. Cat. Coll. B. p. 45 (1889). 

 Treron pkayrii, Blanf. Ibis, 1870, p. 469; Salv. Cat. B. Strickl. Coll. 



p. 558 (1882). 



Adult male. Pileum ashy, lighter on the forehead ; superciliary 

 stripes, sides of the head, and throat yellow-green ; hind neck, lower 

 hack, rump, and upper tail-coverts olive-green ; mantle, scapulars, 

 and smaller upper wing-coverts chestnut ; on the upper hreast a 

 transverse dull orange band, separating the yellow-green throat from 

 the green-olive of the underparts ; sides with a greyish tinge ; 

 feathers of the flanks yellowish white, mingled with dark green ; 

 tibial feathers buff; under tail-coverts cinnamon; median wing- 

 coverts olive-green, with yellow edges formiug an oblique baud on 

 the wings ; greater wing-coverts black, edged with yellow : quills 

 black, the secondaries edged with yellow, tertiaries with broader 

 yellow edges ; wings underneath and axillaries lead-grey ; centre 

 tail-feathers olive-green, the others green at base, with a broad 

 ashy tip and a black bar in front of the ashy, the black bar obsolete 

 on the pair next the centrals and becoming more pronounced towards 

 the outer tail-feathers : " legs and feet lake or purplish pink ; claws 

 and orbital skin greyish blue ; bill pale bluish white, darker at the 

 base ; irides usually with an inner ring of bright blue and an outer 

 ring of salmon or buffy pink, sometimes they are a rosy pink, at 

 others reddish yellow" {Davison). Total length 11 to 11 '62 

 inches, wing 6 to 6-25, tail 3-82 to 4, bill 0-6, tarsus 0-S2 to 0-9. 



Female. Has the maroon of the upper plumage replaced by 

 green-olive; there is no orange on the breast, and the under tail- 

 coverts are white, speckled with ashy green ; size nearly the same. 



Hah. From Lower Bengal and Assam to Tenasserim as far as 

 Tavoy and east to Cochinchina. 



a-d. $ 2 a( l s k- Tipperah. Hume Coll. 



e ;f>ff- c? $ ad. sk. Dibruglmr, Aug. (J. R. Hume Coll. 



Cripps). 



h. c? ad. sk. Khasia Hills. Tweeddale Coll. 



i. (S ad. sk. N. Khasia Hills (A. W. Chen- Tweeddale Coll. 



nell). 



k. $ ad.sk. Khasia Hilla {Griffiths). India Museum [P.]. 



I. cS ad. sk. Luchunpur, Assam {A. Tweeddale Coll. 



Hardy), 



m, n. J 5 ad. sk. Assam {H. Godwin- Austen). Tweeddale Coll. 



o. t$ ad. sk. Cachar {J. Inglis). Hume Coll. 



p, (J- d 1 2 ad. sk. Cachar. Hume Coll. 



r. <3 ad. sk. Arrakau Hills, Jan. Hume Coll. 



s, t. S 2 ad. sk. [Arrakan ?] E. Blyth, Esq. [P.]. 



u. d ad. sk. Bassein, Pegu. Seebohru Coll. 



v. $ ad. sk. Tonghoo Bist. E. W. Oates, Esq. 



[C.]. 



