370 COLUMBID^. 



Subfamily TRERONIN^. 



Treron nepalensis (Hodgs,). The TMclc-UUed Green Pigeon. 



Treron nipalensis (Hodr/s.), Jerd. B. Ind. ii, p. 445 ; Hume, Cat. 

 no. 771. 



Major C. T. Bingliam writes from Tenasserim : — " j\ot a rare 

 bird in the Thoungyeen, buHess common tlian Osmotreronpliaiirii. 



" I found several nests of this bird, which breeds in the Thoun- 

 gyeen forests, throughout the end of February and the whole of 

 March. My first four nests were all found in one day, and all 

 were little platforms of straw on horizontally-growing bamboos, 

 containing each a couple of unfledged 3'oung. This was on the 

 3rd March. Again on the 22nd March I got a nest similarly 

 placed, with two eggs so hard-set that I failed to save them. 



" The only other egg I got was on the 28th March, near Tok 

 village in the Meplay district. It was placed in the usual flimsy 

 nest in the fork of a small tree about ] feet above the ground, 

 and was pure white in colour and perfectly fresh. I procured the 

 female to make certain." 



The only egg of this species that I have seen, sent me by Major 

 Bingham, seemed rather small for the size of the bird. It was of 

 the usual Green-Pigeon-type, with a tendency to be pointed at 

 both ends, pure white in colour, and moderately glossy. It 

 measures 1-13 by 0-89. 



Crocopus phcenicopterus (Lath.). Tlie Bengal Green Pigeon. 



Crocopus phcenicopterus (Lath.), Jerd. JB. Ind. ii, p. 447 ; Hume, 

 Rovj/h Draft JV. S,- E. no. 772. 



Tlie Bengal Green Pigeon, though found as a straggler in the 

 eastern portions of the Punjab and Eajpootana, and somewhat 

 more commonly almost throughout the Central and North-western 

 Provinces and Oudb, is really at Jiome only in Bengal and the 

 tongue of Bengal-like country that runs up under the Himalayas 

 westward to tlie Jumna ; everywhere else the so-called southern 

 species, C. chhrigaster, is much more abundant. 



Pollowing, I suppose. Dr. Jeixlon, Mr. Wallace, in his article on 

 the Pigeons of the Malay Archipelago, gives C. 2}ha;nicopterus from 

 Northern India and China, and C. chlorigaster from Ceylon and 

 the Indian Peninsula. As a matter of fact, C. chlorigaster is fully 

 as common in Upper India, and in most places far more common 

 than G. j^^K^fnirojitcrns. In the North-\A est Provinces both S])ecie8 

 associate in the same flock, C. chlorigaster being, as far as my 

 experience gO(>s, most numerous. Out of sixty odd shot in three 

 days in the Eta\\ah District in March 18G() only nine belonged to 

 the so-called Northern Indian type, and seven shot near Ilansi 

 (Punjab) in December 1807 were all G. chlorigaster. Eastwards of 



