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median and greater coverts and some of the tertiaries margined with yellow ; 

 quills blackish, very narrowly margined with yellow ; upper tail coverts 

 rufescent ; abdomen greenish yellow ; vent and flanks mixed green and yellow ; 

 under tail coverts deep chestnut ; tail ashy, with a broad subterminal blackish 

 band, and tipped with paler ashy. The female has not the vinaceous pink 

 breast ; and the whole head, neck, and breast are green ; under tail coverts 

 )-ellowish white, marked with cinnamon and dull ashy green ; legs and feet 

 carnation pink ; bill pale plumbeous ; cere dirty yellowish ; irides Prussian 

 blue, with pink and buff outer circles. 



Length, — 1 1 inches; tail 4; wing 5*7 ; tarsus o"8 ; bill from gape o"85. 



^^(25. — Southern Tenasserim, extending down the Malay Peninsula and 

 eastwards to Cochin-China. Found also in Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Celebes 

 and the Phillipine Islands. Breeds in the Malay Peninsula during March on 

 bushes in swampy places. 



22. Osmotreron malabarica, Jcrd., III. Ind. Om. pi. 31 ; id., B. 



Ind. ii. p. 450 ; Hume, Nests and Eggs Ind. B. p. 493 ; Hume, Sir. F. iii. 

 p. 162; id., Str, F. iv. p. 261; vi. p. 4 14; Murray, Avif. Brit. Ind, \\. 

 p. 500, No. 1 146. — The Grey- FRONTED or Malabar Green Pigeon. 



Forehead greyish white ; mantle and wing coverts maroon ; rest of upper 

 parts, including the lores, face and ear coverts green; wing coverts broadly 

 edged with bright yellow ; quills the same, but narrow; tail green, with a 

 broad medial dark band and broadly tipped with ashy white ; under surface 

 of the body green ; throat and neck yellowish ; vent and thigh coverts mixed 

 green and pale yellow ; under tail coverts cinnamon. 'Y\i^ female has not the 

 maroon patch ; bill glaucous green ; legs and feet pinkish red ; irides red, with 

 an outer blue circle. 



Length. — 10"2 to io*5 inches; tail 4 ; wing 5*75. No nude space round 

 the eye. 



'H.ah. — Wooded and hilly tracts of the Indian Peninsula ; abundant in 

 Malabar and South India, also in Central India and the Eastern ghauts. It is 

 also found in INIysore and South Wynaad, as well as in the Assamboo hills. 



Breeds during April. Eggs pure white, and Hume says, thickly studded with 

 minute pores. 



23. Osmotreron Phayrii, Biyth, j, A. s, B. xxxi. p. 344; 



Jerd.y B. Ind. ii. p. 451, No. 776 ; Hume, Str.F. iii. p. 162 ; Blyth, B. Burin. 

 p. 144; Hume and Dav., Str, F. vi. p. 4 12; Hume^ Str. F, viii. p. 109; 

 Bingham, Str. F, ix. p. 194; Oates, Str. F, x. p. 235 ; Oates, Br. Burm. ii. 

 p. 310 ; Murray, Avif. Brit. Ind, p. 501, No. 1147. — Phayre's Green 

 Pigeon. 



Very like Osmotreron malabarica, differing only in having the entire cap 

 ashy in both sexes ; breast greenish, tinged with orange. T\iq female has not 



