(4) OSMOTRERON POMPADORA PHAYREI (Blyth). 

 THE ASHY-HEADED GREEN PIGEON. 



(FEONTISPIECE.) 



Treron malabarica (part) Blyth, J.A.S.B., XIV p. 852 (1845) ; id., Cat. R.A.S.B., 

 p. 229. 



Osmotreron fhayrei Blyth, J.A.S.B., XXI p. 344 (1862); Jerdon, B.I., III p. 451 

 Blyth and Wald., B. Burma, p. 144 ; Godw.-Aus., J.A.S.B., XXXIX 

 pt. 2 p. iii; id. ib., XLV pt. 2 p. 83 ; Hume, Str. Feath., Ill p. 162 

 Inglis, ib., V p. 39 ; Hume and Dav., ib., VI p. 412 ; Hume, Cat. no. 776 

 id., Str. Feath., VIII p. 109 ; Bingham, Str. Feath., IX p. 194 ; Gates 

 B. Burma, II p. 310 ; id., Hume's Nests and Eggs, 2nd ed., 11., p. 376 

 Hume, Str. Feath., X p. 235 ; id. ib., XI p. 291 ; Salvadori, Cat. B.M 

 XXI p. 43 ; Blanf., Avi. Brit. I., IV p. 8 ; Sharp, Hand-List, I p. 54 

 Gates, Cat. Eggs B.M., I p. 52 ; Harington, B. Bunna, p. 63 ; Stuart 

 Baker, J.B.N.H.S., X p. 364 ; Inglis, ib., XI p. 457 ; Stuart Baker, ib., 

 XVII p. 970 ; Hears, ib., XVIH p. 86 ; Harington, ib., XIX p. 365. 



Vernacular Names. Daorep, Cachari ; Inruigum, Naga. ; Vohpolip, 

 Kuki ; Chota Haitha, Assamese ; Chota Hartal, Sylheti ; Ngu, Burmese ; Chota 

 Harial, Bengah. 



Description. — Adult male. Whole cro-rni of head and nape ashy-grey, 

 the nape most pale, as a rule, and most pure in colour, the fore-head mixed 

 with green and duller. Neck behind and extreme upper-back green, fairly 

 well defined from the grey of the head and also from the chestnut-maroon 

 of the back, scapulars, and lesser wing-coverts ; lower-back, rump, and upper 

 tail-coverts green, rather more yellov\'ish than the neck. Guter tail-feathers 

 black, each succeeding pair becoming more greenish, until the central ones 

 are entirely of this colour and practically unicolorous with their coverts ; 

 a broad band of grey at the tips of all but the central feathers. 



Lores, sides of head and narrow superciHum green, well defined from the 

 grey of the crown and nape ; throat and fore-neck the same, but much more 

 yellow ; upper-breast a creamy -orange, occasionally tinged ■with vinous or 

 pink ; lower-breast, abdomen, and flanks greenish, deepening in colour on the 

 lower-flanks and thigh-coverts which are splashed with yellow ; feathers 

 of the vent and under tail-coverts cinnamon, the former sometimes a little 

 the paler of the two and with yellowish borders. Median and greater wing- 

 coverts black, fading to grey on the inside of the webs, the former with broad 

 and the latter %nth narrow borders of yellow on the outer-webs ; quills black 

 inclining to grey on the inside of the inner webs, the primaries with narrow 

 yellowish white margins and the secondaries wdth yellow borders, becoming 

 very broad on the innermost ^^-hieh are also often much suffused with the 

 same tint of maroon as that of the scapulars. Axillaries and imder wing- 

 coverts grey, with sometimes a tinge of green. 



