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Nagpore. He states that it breeds in the thick clamp forests to 

 the southward, towards Sumbulpore, during the rains. Many breed 

 in various parts of Lower Bengal ; and, as Blyth remarks, in the 

 hot weather, not during the rains. No exact localities have been 

 pointed out as its breeding places there, but it probably leaves the 

 more cultivated ground at this time, and betakes itself to the 

 wilder and less frequented jungles, very probably nestling in the 

 Sunderbuns. Blyth states that ' the young are brought to Calcutta 

 for sale, as well as adults caught with bird-lime, and that they 

 soon become reconciled to captivity, and will utter tlieir musical 

 notes freely in the cage ; but are gluttonous and uninteresting- 

 birds in confinement, especially when fed on plantains, which 

 they take to most readily, besmearing the feathers of the head and 

 neck, to the great injury of their beautyj it is therefore desirable 

 to get them, by degrees, to feed on soaked gram.' 



773. Crocopus Chlorigaster, Blyth. 



Treron, apud Blyth, J. A. S. XII. 167— Blyth, Cat. 1385— 

 T. Jerdoni, Strickland — V. militaris, apud Jerdon, Cat. 286 — 

 Hurried, H. — Pacha, guwa, Tel. — Pacha pora Tam. 



The Southern Green Pigeon. 



])escr. — This species differs from the last in having the whole 

 top of the head ashy, devoid, in adults, of the slightest tinge of 

 green on the forehead, and the whole under parts are green ; the 

 neck and breast, too, are less tinged with yellow, and shade gradu- 

 ally into the green of the abdomen ; there is no trace of green 

 upon the tail, except at its extreme base, which is uniformly ashy 

 above. 



Size of the last.— Wing barely 7 inches ; tail 4f . 



This species replaces the last throughout the greater part of 

 the Peninsula of India, and Ceylon, but is rare north of the 

 Nerbudda, though occasionally killed even in Lower Bengal. Its 

 habits are of course very similar. It is very abundant in many 

 parts of Southern India, especially along the fine avenues of 

 trees met with in parts of Mysore and the Carnatic. I found it 

 breeding in April and May in the jungly country south-east of 



