TRERONIN^. 451 



eye-brow, face, and ear-coverts, green ; wing-coverts broadly edged 

 with bright yellow, and wing-feathers more or less edged with the 

 same ; tail green at the base, broadly tipped with ashy-white, and 

 with a medial dark band, and the outermost feathers more or less 

 marked with deep ashy on the inner webs ; beneath green, 

 yellowish on the throat and neck, and mixed with pale yellow on 

 the vent and thigh-coverts ; under tail-coverts cinnamon. 



The female differs in wanting the maronne colour, and in the 

 under tail-coverts being mingled greenish, ashy, and white. 



Bill glaucous green ; legs pinky-red ; irides red, with an outer 

 circle of blue. Length about 10^ inches; extent 18; wing 5f ; 

 tail 4. 



This species very closely resembles Treron nipalensis in colora- 

 tion, but is at once distinguished by the very different and more 

 slender bill, and it has no nude space round the eyes. It is found 

 in most of the lofty forests of India, most abundant in Malabar, 

 but I have killed it in Central India, and in the Eastern Ghats. 

 It has the usual habits of the family, but does not, in general, 

 associate in such large flocks as the last. 



776. Osmo treron Phayrei, Blyth. 



J. A. S. XXXL, p. 344 — Treron malabaricus, apud Blyth, 

 Cat. 1389 (in part) — V. aromatica, apud Selby, Jard. Nat. Libr. 

 Pigeons, p. 97. 



The Ashy-headed Green Pigeon. 



Descr. — Very similar to the preceding, 0. malabarica, but 

 distinguished by having the entire cap ash-colored in both sexes, 

 and by the male having a large ochreous patch on the breast. 



This species, formerly confounded with 0. malabaricus, appears 

 to represent it in Lower Bengal, where, however, rare, but it is 

 abundant in Assam, Sylhet, and Burmah. 



The next species differs from the two preceding ones in both 

 sexes having the under tail-coverts colored as in the females only 

 of the others, and, in this respect, resembles 0. chloroptera, Blyth, 

 of the Andaman s and Nicobars. 



