350 SPOLIA ZEYLANICA. 
CROCOPUS CHLOROGASTER (Blanford, Vol. IV., p. 6). 
CROCOPUS CHLORIGASTER (Legge, p. 722). 
The Southern Green Pigeon. 
Description —-Male : the forehead, top, and sides of head 
bluish-gray, often encroaching on the yellowish-green of the 
chin and throat; under parts yellowish-green, brightest on 
the upper breast; vent and thighs yellow; flanks grayer ; 
under tail coverts dull purple-chestnut with broad white 
edges and tips of grayish-white. Round the hind-neck is a 
broad collar of olive-yellow, and behind this a narrower 
collar of bluish-gray ; the rest of the upper parts, together 
with the wing and tail coverts, are olive-green with a yellow 
tinge ; greater wing coverts and secondary quills edged with 
yellow ; primaries dark brown, also more or less edged with 
yellow. The small coverts at the bend of the wing are lilac. 
The tail is gray above, the feathers being tinged with green 
at the base; underneath the tail feathers are gray with a 
broad black base. 
Females, as a rule, are slightly duller, while the lilac patch 
on the wing is smaller and not so pronounced. 
Bill greenish or bluish-white ; iris with an inner circle of 
blue and an outer ring of carmine; legs and feet chrome- 
yellow. 
Length up to 12°50 ; wing 7°25 ; tail about 4°5; tarsus °9; 
bill from gape °9. 
Females are a little smaller. Ceylon and South Indian 
birds are smaller than those from Northern India. 
Distribution —In Ceylon a very rare visitor from Southern 
India. A few specimens have been obtained near Jaffna and 
at Arippu. 
Blanford gives specific distinction to the southern form of 
this Pigeon, which ranges through Southern, Central, and 
North-western India. 
Stuart Baker counts it as a sub-species of the Bengal Green 
Pigeon, C. phanicopterus, and describes it as C. phenicopterus 
chlorogaster. 
