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a slight gloss, and with Aery fine compact shells. They measure 

 1-6 by 1-25, both being of precisely the same shape and size. 



Mr. J. Inglis writes from Cachar : — " The Imperial Green 

 Pigeon is common. It breeds during the rains. The only nest I 

 ha^e seen was in a thicket, about 30 feet from the ground. It 

 contained two young birds newly hatched. The nest consisted of 

 a very few sticks and a few stiff grasses." 



Major C. T. Bingham, writing from Teuasserim, says : — " This 

 common Imperial Pigeon I have seen in the north on the Toouza- 

 leen choung, on the Attarau, Gyne, and Iloundraw rivers, but 

 nowhere in such numbers as in July on the Salween, where in one 

 day, driving them back\\ards and forwards between a few Fkus 

 trees in fruit, I managed to bag over thirty. 



" It is not rare in the Thoungyeen. 



" On the 19th Marcli, on the road from the village of Podresakai 

 to Meplay, I found a nest of the above Pigeon with the usual 

 solitary egg, which proved to be hard-set. It was easily seen from 

 below through the flimsy nest of a few sticks and straws laid 

 across and across a horizontally-growing bamboo, where a smaller 

 shoot had forked out from it. ' I shot the female as she flew off 

 and sat on a neighbouring tree. 



"The egg is pure white and slightlv glossv, measuring 1-8 inch 

 by 1-32. . o ^ 



" On the 17th Pebruary, 1877, 1 found four nests of this Pigeon 

 at Cheoukhon, a small village about three miles from the south 

 bank of the AYimjeo river in Tenasserim. 



" They were all placed in the forks of small trees from 12 to 20 

 feet above the ground, and were of the usual Pigeon type, mere 

 platforms of twigs without a semblance of lining. Three out of 

 the four contained one young one each ; the fourth a pure white 

 cylindrical egg, very slightly set, and measuring 1-77 by 1-26." 



Prom Ceylon, Colonel Legge writes of this species : — " I am not 

 aware that its nest has been taken by any naturalist in Ceylon ; 

 but I am able to state that it breeds in April and May in the south 

 of the island, as I shot a female on the 28th of the former month 

 at Paddegama, in the oviduct of which was an egg almost ready 

 for expulsion." 



Carpophaga insularis, Blyth. The yicohar Imperial Fi<jtOH. 



Carpophaga iusulaiis, Blyth, JImiie, I{ou(/h Draft N. <§• E. no. 

 780 ter. 



Mr. Davison remarks of this species that " they breed in 

 February and March, On the 17th February I found*^ a nest on 

 the Island of Trinkut. It was built in a cocoanut palm, and was 

 about 20 feet from the ground. As usual with Pigeons and Doves, 

 it was simply a platform of dry twigs very loosely put together, 

 and was built on a dried-up fruit-branch, which was itself mei'ely a 

 mass of dry twigs. It contained one large white egg. It is my 



