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[Fro7n the Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, Dec. 2 0, 1922.] 



HAND-LIST OF THE "BIKDS OF INDIA." 



BY . 



E. C. Stuart Baker, f.l.s., f.z.s., m.b.o.u., c.f.a.o.u. 



Part VII. 



[Contimied from fage 594 of this volnme.) 



Order COLUMB^. 



Family Columbiu^. 



Sub-family Treronince. 



1695. (1271) Crocopus phoenicopterus phcenicopterus.- 



The Bengal Green Pigeon. 



Columba phcenicoptera Za<^., Ind., Orn., ii., x^. 597 



(1790), {in insula Eimeo). 



Central and N. E. India to Assam N. of 

 Brahmaputra. 



1696. (1271) Crocopus phoenicopterus viridifrons. The 



Burmese Green Pigeon. 



Treron viridifrons Blyth, J. A. S. B., .fir., pt. 2, p, 

 849 (1845), {Tennasserim). 



Assam S. of Brahmaputra, Burma S. to Moulmein,. 

 E. to Cochin. 



1697. (1272) Crocopus phoenicopterus chlorogaster. The 



Southern Green Pigeon. 



Vinago chlorogaster Blyth, J. A. S. B., xii, pt, i., p. 

 167 (1843), {Indian Pen.) 



India S. of the range of 1696, Ceylon, N. W, 

 to sub-Himalayas. 



*i698. n275) Treron pompadora pompadora. The Pompa- 

 dour Green Pigeon. 



Columba pompadora Gmd., S. N., i., p. 775 



(1789), {Ceylon). 



Ceylon only. 



1699. (1273) Treron pompadora phayrei. The Ashy-headed 

 Green Pigeon. 



Osmotreron phayrei Blyth, -J. A. S. B., .r.r.ri., p. 344 

 (1862), {Touwjhoo). 



E. Bengal, Assam, Burma, S. to Tavoy and E. to 

 Cochin China. 



* The generic name Osmotreron Bonaparte, 1 854, is antedated by Dendropkasa 

 Gloger, 1842, and cannot therefore be used but Osmotreron and Treron (Vieill 1816). 

 are not separable so that the latter name will be retained. 



