(S) CROCOPUS PHOENICOPTERUS CHLOROGASTER (Blyth). 

 THE SOUTHERN GREEN PIGEON. 



Vinago dilorogaster Blyth, J.A.S.B., XII, 1st part, p. 167 (1843). 



Treron jerdoni Strik., Ann. Mag. N.H., XIII p. 38. 



Trermi cMorigaster Blyth, J.A.S.B., XIV p. 850 ; id., Cat. B.M.A.S.B., p. 229. 



Crocopus dilorogaster Bp., Con. Av., II p. 12 ; Adam, Str. Feath., I p. 390 ; 

 Salvador!, Cat. B.M., XXI p. 30; Blanf., Avi. Brit. I., IV p. 6; Sharpe, 

 Hand-List, I p. 853 ; Gates, Cat. Eggs B.M., I p. 81 ; Dewar, 

 J.B.N.H.S., XVI p. 494; Martin Young, ib., p. 514; Moss King, ib., 

 XXI p. 98; Pitman, ib., XXH. p. 194 ; Aitken, Com. B. Burma, p. 153. 



Crocopus cMorigaster Jerdon, B.I., HI p. 448 ; Blanf., J.A.S.B., XXXVIII 

 pt. n p. 187 ; Ball, Str. Feath., 11 p. 423 ; Butler, ib., IV p. 2 ; Hume, 

 ib. ; Fairbank, ib., p. 261 ; Hume, Nests and Eggs, III p. 492 ; Fairbank, 

 Str. Feath., V p. 408; Ball, ib., VII p. 224; Murray, ib., p. 113 ; Hume, 

 Cat. no. 773 ; id., Str. Feath., VIII., p. 109 ; Vidal, ib., IX p. 73 ; 

 Legge, B. Cey., p. 722 ; Reid, Str. Feath., X p. 58 ; Davidson, ib., 

 p. 314 ; Davison, ib., p. 406, Taylor, ib., p. 463 ; Barnes, B. Bom., 

 285 ; id., J.B.N.H.S., V p. 328 ; Gates, in Nests and Eggs, 2nd ed., 

 II p. 372 ; Davidson, J.B.N.H.S., XII p. 61. 



Vernacular Names. Harial,Bm. ; PacJia Gawa,Tel. ; Pacha po)a,Ta,m. 



Description. — Adult male. Differs from Crocopus ph. phoenicopterus 

 in havmg the under-parts practically unicoloured, from chin to vent, 

 yellow ; the fore-head shows no green at all, or has this confined merely 

 to the edge of the bill ; the lores and the whole of the side of the head 

 are grey unmixed with green and the grey often encroaches on to the sides 

 of the chin and throat ; there is no basal band of green on the upper part of 

 the tail, though some birds may have a tinge of this colour upon the outer 

 webs at the base of the central rectrices. 



The female differs from the male in the same way as does that of 

 phoenicopterus and viridifrons. 



The size and colour of the soft parts are the same as in the two other 

 subspecies. 



Distribution. The Southern Green Pigeon has the widest distribution 

 of the three subspecies, for it is found throughout the whole of southern 

 India and Ceylon, whilst north it extends through Central India and Madras 

 and throughout Orissa, but it is replaced by C. ph. phoenicopterus in south 

 Bengal, though here a few birds are intermediate between the two. Finisher 

 west in Behar, the Southern Green Pigeon is still cormnon in the south, 

 but less so in central Behar, and is entirely replaced by the Bengal form 

 in the north. 



Inglis has specimens from Behar which cannot be referred decidedly to 

 either race, and Ball, writing from Lucknow, says : " Most of my specimens 



