352 SPOLIA ZEYLANICA. 
Habits —The present species is common in forest country, 
largely in the vicinity of jungle-girt villages. In the more 
cultivated districts it may be found in plantations of jak or 
other fruit trees, but such birds are generally not such fine 
specimens as those from the thick jungles of Sabaragamuwa 
or the North-Central Province. They live entirely upon 
fruit, and at the season when the banyan and other wild figs 
are ripe their flesh is delicious. The breeding season is from 
about February to May, or, if the weather is favourable, right 
on to August. The nest is a scanty mesh of twigs placed in 
the small branches of a tree, usually about 10 to 20 feet from 
the ground. Sometimes two, often only one egg is laid. 
They are broad blunt ovals, white and smooth in texture. 
The average size is about 1°12 by °90. 
OsMOTRERON BIcINCTA (Blanford, Vol. IV., p. 11; 
Legge, p. 725). 
The Orange-breasted Green Pigeon. 
Description.—Male : the forehead, crown, face, and throat 
yellowish-green, passing into delicate blue-gray on the nape 
and hind-neck. Back, wing coverts, and tertiaries are green, 
shading into bronze-green on the rump and upper tail coverts. 
Tail ashy-gray, with a dark broad cross-band, which is most 
marked on the outer, and indistinct on the central, feathers. 
Wing quills black ; the primaries and secondaries are narrowly 
edged with bright yellow, the outer coverts and tertiaries with 
deep borders of the same colour. 
The upper portion and sides of the breast are lilac, the lower 
breast orange ; abdomen yellowish-green, shading into pure 
yellow round the vent ; thigh plumes yellow with broad centres 
of ashy-green ; under tail coverts cinnamon. 
Females have no lilac and orange on the breast, which is 
yellowish-green ; the under tail coverts are paler, the outer | 
webs being almost white. 
Bill glaucous-green, pale blue on the tip ; iris cobalt-blue, 
with an outer ring of carmine ; legs pinkish-red. 
Length 10°5; wing 5°6; tail 3°7; tarsus *75; bill from 
gape °8. 
Females are slightly smaller. 
