16 TRERONID^:. 



central feathers of the tail green, the next pair greenish with ashy tips, the 

 rest of tail feathers ashy, tinged with green on the outer webs, and with a black 

 bar across ; under tail coverts cinnamon brown. T\\t female differs in wanting 

 the ashy head and maroon mantle. Bill red at base ; the culmen yellowish ; 

 corneous portion bluish white; eyelids greenish blue ; irides blue; legs bright 

 red ; corneous portion of bill extending to the forehead. 



Length. — 10-5 to lO'S inches; tail 3-5; wing 5-5 to 57; tarsus 0'9; bill 

 from gape 0*95. 



Hah. — The hill tracts of Eastern Bengal and S.-E, Himalayas, the hilly 

 parts of Burmah, extending down the Malay Peninsula to Sumatra ; also Siam 

 and Cochin-China. Found in flocks ; feeds on fruits. Breeds in March, 

 Eggs 2, pure white. 



Gen. QlSlOQO^VL^.—Bonap. 



Characters those of the Sub-Family ; basal portion of bill with the fleshy 

 protuberance occupying one-half its length or nearly as much ; third primary 

 sinuated on its inner web. 



17. Crocopus phoenicopterus {Lath.), Jo-d., B. Lui. ii. p. 447, 



No. 772; Hume, Sir, F. ii. p. 423. Crocopus Hardwickii, Gould, Cent. 

 Hun. B. pi. 58 ; Murray, Avif. Brit. Lid. ii. p. 498, No. 1 141. — The Bengal 

 Green Pigeon. 



Top of head and demicollar ashy grey ; back of the neck yellowish green ; 

 forehead tinged with greenish ; wing coverts lilac, the greater series margined 

 yellow, forming an oblique bar across the wing ; tail ashy grey above, and for 

 the terminal two-fifths tinged with green ; middle portion blackish ; neck in 

 front and breast bright yellow green; middle of abdomen ashy grey; vent 

 white and green ; lower abdomen bright yellowish green ; under tail coverts 

 dull maroon, and with white tips ; bill whitish ; feet yellow ; irides carmine; 

 eyelids smalt blue. 



Length. — 12*5 inches ; tail 5 ; wing 7-5 ; bill at gape O'g. 



7/^(5, — Bengal and Upper India, extending to Assam, Sylhet and Tipperah. 

 Found in the Eastern portions of Rajpootana, the Punjab, Central and N.-W. 

 Provinces and Oudh ; also in Central India. Breeds from ^larch to June, on 

 trees. Eggs two in number, of an oval shape, white and glossy, varying in 

 length from ri6 to i'35 inch, and in breadth from o'9 to i inch. 



18. Crocopus chlorigaster, Biyth, y.A. s. B. xvii. p. 167; 



jferd., iii. p. 448, No. 773 ; Str. F. ii. p. 423; Murray, Hdbk., Zool. ^-c., 

 Sind, p. 193 ; /,/. Vert. Zool. Sind, p. 200 ; Tern. Pig. t. 2. C. jerdoni, Strickl, 

 Murray, Avif. Brit. Lid. ii. p. 498, No. 1142. — The Sol'thekn Green 

 Pigeon. 



