CEYLON PIGEONS AND GAME BIRDS 351 
Habits—According to Layard, this species appears in 
Ceylon only when the fruit is ripe in the jungles. He says it 
is especially fond of the figs of the banyan. Like most Green 
Pigeons, it always perches in trees, but occasionally descends 
to the water to drink. 
OSMOTRERON POMPADORA (Blanford, Vol. VI., p. 9; 
Legge, p. 728). 
Pompadour Green Pigeon. 
Description—Male : forehead, lores, and cheeks greenish- 
yellow, becoming purer yellow on the chin and throat. Crown 
and nape ashy-blue, changing into ashy-green on the hind- 
neck and sides of neck. The mantle (¢.e., back, scapulars, 
and lesser wing coverts) chestnut-maroon. Lower back, 
rump, and upper tail coverts green. Central tail feathers 
green, the outer feathers passing into black with bluish-gray 
tips. Outer wing coverts and quills black, the secondaries 
and greater coverts boldly edged with bright yellow. Under 
parts yellowish-green ; the flanks more ash-coloured ; lower 
flanks and thighs dark greenish with yellowish-white tips ; 
under tail coverts pale buff or whitish. 
Female : the maroon mantle is wanting, being replaced by 
dark green. As a rule, the yellow edges of the wing feathers 
are paler, and the lower tail coverts are more marked, especially 
at their bases, with green and ash-colour. 
Bill glaucous-green, the tip bluish ; iris carmine, with an 
inner ring of cobalt-blue ; legs and feet red with a purple tinge. 
Length 10°5; wing 5:6; tail 3:6; tarsus ‘8; bill from 
gape ‘9. 
Distribution —Peculiar to Ceylon. It is abundant all over 
the low-country, and ranges up to about 4,000 feet. Near 
the sea, except in the north-east, it is largely replaced by the 
next species. 
Stuart Baker regards it as a sub-species, which he names 
O. pompadora pompadora, uniting with it as three allied sub- 
species the three forms from Eastern India and Burma, the 
Malabar Coast, and from the Andamans, which are described 
by Blanford as O. phayrei, O. affinis, and O. chloroptera, 
respectively. 
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