(1) CROCOPUS PHOENICOPTERUS PHOENICOPTERUS. 
THE BENGAL GREEN PIGEON. 
Columba phoenicoptera Lath., Ind. Orn., IL p. 597 (1790). 
Columba militaris (part) Temm., Pig., pt. 1 (1808). 
Columba hardwickit Gray, in Griff. An. Kingd., VIII (1829). 
Treron phoenicoptera Blyth, J.A.S.B., XIV p. 849; id., Cat. B.M., p. 229; 
Gray, Cat. Hodg. Coll. B.M., 2nd ed. p. 66. 
Crocopus phoenicopterus Jerdon, B.I., IL p. 447; Godw.-Aus., J.A.S.B., 
XXXIX pt. a p. 272; Str. Feath., I p. 390; Ball, ib., IT p. 432; Hume, 
Nests and Eggs, p. 491; id., Cat. no. 772; id., Str. Feath., IV p. 2; 
Cripps, ib., VII p. 296; Scully, ib., VIII p. 339; Oates, in Hume’s Nests 
and Eggs, 2nd ed., IT p. 370; Salvadori, Cat. B.M., X XI p. 20; Blanf., 
Avi. Brit. I., IV p. 5; Sharpe, Hand-List Birds, I p. 153; Oates, Cat. 
Eggs B.M., I p. 81; Stuart Baker, J.B.N.H.S., X p.63; id. ib., XIII 
p. 568 ; Inglis, ib., XIV p. 561; Stuart Baker, ib., XVII p. 970. 
Vernacular Names. Harial H.; Haitha or Bor Haitha, Assamese ; 
Daorep gadeba, Cachari; Inruigu, Naga. 
Description.—Adult male. Fore-head as far back as the eye, lores, chin, 
and throat greenish-yellow ; from fore-head to the nape and including the 
upper part of cheeks and ear-coverts ash-grey, changing on the neck to bright 
chrome, following which comes a band of grey, purer and brighter than the 
crown. Remainder of the upper-plumage including wing-coverts and inner- 
most secondaries olive-green, with a strong tinge of yellow; upper tail-coverts 
the same but sometimes tinged with grey. Tail above, grey with a broad 
basal band of olive-yellow, contrasting strongly with the rest of the tail though 
not with the upper tail-coverts; the outermost tail-feathers hardly show 
this band on the outer-web, and on the inner-web each pair of feathers has 
the yellow decreasing in extent towards the outermost. Below, the rather 
greenish-yellow of the throat runs into a purer king’s-yellow on the breast ; 
lower-breast, flanks, and abdomen grey ; the tibial feathers, the centre of the 
abdomen, and patches about the vent yellow, and the thighs and long flank- 
feathers covering them, with deep green-grey centres and pale whitish fringes ; 
under tail-coverts deep purple-chestnut, with broad whitish bands at the 
end of each feather; under aspect of tail grey with a broad black band at 
base nearly concealed by the tail-coverts. 
A band of lilac-purple on the innermost smaller wing-coverts ; greater 
wing-coverts and secondaries boldly edged with pale yellow, forming a bar 
on the closed wing, running from near the edge of the shoulder to the end of 
the longest secondary ; primaries dark brown, edged with yellow, the inner 
changing to the same colour as the back ; bastard-wing black and the greater- 
coverts next the yellow edging, dark brown. 
Bill, very pale bluish- or greenish-white, the cere more strongly tinged 
with this colour than the rest of the upper mandible ; lower mandible sometimes 
