20 TRERONID^. 



the orange breast, and the maroon of the male is replaced by green ; the under 

 tail coverts are mixed green, ashy and white; bill bluish; legs lake red; 

 irides blue, with an outer pink circle. 



Length.— \\ to I r5 inches ; tail 4; wing 6*3 ; tarsus o'g; bill from gape i. 



Hah. — Lower Bengal, Assam, Sylhet, and Burmah, where it occurs in all the 

 hilly tracts of the province, as far as Tavoy, and extends to the east as far as 

 Cochin-China. 



24. Osmotreron fulviCOlliS {Waghr), Hume and Dav., Sir. F.\\. 

 p. 413; Hu?ne, Sir. F. viii. p. 109; Oa/es, B. Br, Bum. ii. p. 311. 

 Columba fulvicolIis, Wagl.., Syst. Av. Coliimha, No. 8; Wald., Trans. Zool. 

 Soc. ix. p, 213. Treron fulvicolIis, Salvad., Ucc. Born., p. 288 ; Murray, Avif. 

 Brit. Ind. ii. p. 501, No. 1 148. —The Ruddy Green Pigeon. 



Entire head, neck and upper breast ruddy vinaceous, paling on the lower 

 breast ; abdomen green ; vent and flanks ashy green and yellow ; thighs 

 bright yellow; rump ashy green ; sides of the body greyish white ; under tail 

 coverts cinnamon ; back, scapulars and lesser wing coverts maroon ; upper tail 

 coverts and central tail feathers dull green ; others green at base with asubter- 

 minal dark band and tipped with pale ashy. Legs and feet purplish pink; bill 

 deep red ; irides buffy pink ; orbital skin plumbeous green. 



Length.— lO-i^ inches; tail 3*5 ; wing 5*5 ; tarsus o'S ; bill from gape o-8. 

 Hah. — Tenasserim, in the extreme south, extending down the Malay Penin- 

 sula, and occurring in Sumatra, Borneo, and the Phillipines. 



25. Osmotreron pompadoura (G7?uL), Jerd., B. Lnd. iii. 



p. 452, No. 777; Hume, Str. F. iii. p. 162; vi. p. 414. Osmotreron 

 flavogularis, Blyth, J . A. S. B. xxvi. p. 225 ; Murray, Avif. Brit. hid. ii. 

 p. 502, No. 1 149. — The Yellow-fronted Green Pigeon. 



Like Osrnotreron malaharica ; differs in having a yellowish forehead, pure 

 yellow throat, no buff patch on the breast, and the under tail coverts are green 

 in both sexes, with broad whitish tips ; bill glaucous green ; irides red, with 

 an outer blue circle. 



Length. — 10*5 inches ; tail 4 ; wing 5*75. 



Hah. — South India and Ceylon. 



Osmotreron chloroptera is said to occur in the Andamans and Nicobar 

 Islands. 



Gen. Sphenocercus.— G^r^^-. 



Bill moderately slender and lengthened, the basal two-thirds soft and 

 tumid ; corneous extremity feeble ; a small wide space round the eyes ; third 

 primary not sinuated ; tail with the central feathers much elongated and 

 narrow ; soles of feet slender. 



