(2) CROCOPUS PHOENICOPTERUS VIRIDIFRONS (Blyth). 
THE BURMESE GREEN PIGEON. 
(PLATE 1.) 
Treron viridifrons Blyth, J.A.S.B., XIV pt. 2 Pp: 849 (1845); id.! ib., 
XXIV p. 479; Godw.-Aust., ib., XXXIX p. iii. a gis 
Crocopus viridifrons Jerdon, B.L., TI p. 449; Hume, Str. Feath., II p. 481 ; 
id. ib., III p. 161; Blyth and Wald., B. Burma, p. 143; Godw. -Aust., 
JAS.B., LXIV p. 83; Oates, Str. Feath., V p. 163; Hume and Dav., 
ib., VI p. 410; Hume, ib., VIII p. 109; Bingh., ib., IX p. 194; Hume 
and Ing., ib., p. 257; Oates, ib., X p. 235; id., B. Burma, II p. 307; 
Hume, Str. Feath., XI p. 290; Salvadori, Cat. B.M., XXI p. 28; 
Sharpe, Hand-List, I p. 153; Stuart Baker, J.B.N.H.S., X p. 363. 
Crocopus phoenicopterus (part), Blanf., Avi. Brit. I., IV p. 5; Harington, 
B. Burma, p. 117; Oates (part), Cat. B.M., I p. 81; Primrose, 
J.B.N.H.S., XIII p. 78; Macdonald, ib., XVII p. 495; Mears and 
Oates, ib., XVIII p. 86; Harington, ib., XIX p. 308 ; id. ib., p. 365. 
Vernacular Names. Ngu Bom-ma-di, Burmese; Daorep Gadeba, 
Cachari; Inruigu, Naga. 
Description.—Adult male. Differs from C. ph. sphoenicopterus in 
having the yellow of the fore-head running back as far as the back of the 
crown, and generally a good deal brighter than in that bird; the greater 
part of the cheeks and also the major portion of the ear-coverts are of the 
same yellowish-green. The upper tail-coverts, on the other hand, are more 
grey than they are in phoenicopterus, and contrast strongly with the yellow 
band on the tail. 
Colours of soft parts are the same as in the western form, and the 
dimensions are the same. 
Adult female. Differs from the male in the same way, and to the same 
extent as the female of C. ph. phoenicopterus differs from its male. 
Distribution. The range of this subspecies extends over northern 
Burma and the hill-ranges of north-east Burma, south-east into Cochin 
China, and as far south as Moulmein. To the west it extends through 
Arrakan, Cox’s Bazaar into Chittagong and the Chittagong hill-tracts. I have 
seen no specimens from Comilla, but Sylhet birds and those from the plains 
of Cachar are intermediate between phoenicopterus and viridifrons, most 
birds being nearer the latter, and birds occasionally being obtained which 
are typical viridifrons. 
Everywhere north of the Surrma Valley hill-ranges and west of the big 
rivers running into the Bay of Bengal, only phoenicopterus is met with. 
In his Birds of Burma, Harington says that this Pigeon is common 
from north to south everywhere except on Mount Victoria, and that it is 
