THE PIGEONS. 1s1 
courtesies and a not very musical coo. So strong and rapid 
on the wing is it, that if turned out in the open, I feel 
sure it would be esteemed by sportsmen as a useful minor 
game-bird. 
The last Pigeon I shall deal with is a representative of the 
beautiful group of green Fruit-Pigeons, so characteristic 
of the warm regions of the old world. 
THe Hourriat (Crocopus phenicopterus) is about as big 
as a common domestic Pigeon, but stouter in make, 
with the wings, tail, and legs shorter. Its bill is stout 
and strong for a Pigeon’s. Its plumage is soft and ex- 
tremely beautiful ; the general colour being a yellowish- 
green, becoming almost yellow on the neck and breast ; 
the underparts below this, the back of the head, a collar 
round the neck, and the end of the tail, are French grey. 
There is a narrow yellow stripe across the wings, and the 
thighs are yellow; at the bend of the wing is a lilac 
patch, and a buff-and-chestnut one under the tail. The 
bill is bluish-white, greenish at the root ; the feet are orange 
yellow, and the eves blue with an outer ring of red. The 
hen is very like the cock, but slightly smaller and usual- 
ly with less of the pale purple on the wing; but the sexes 
are not easy to distinguish in this species. 
This, the common Green Pigeon of Bengal and 
Burma, is found eastwards as far as Siam ; to the west it 
extends along the base of the Himalayas to the 
Jumna, but in ‘Northern India it meets the Southern 
Hurrial (Crocopus chlorogaster) of the Indian Peninsula 
and Ceylon. This bird, in its typical form, is all 
greenish-yellow beneath, showing no grey on the belly ; 
