20 INDIAN PIGEONS AND DOVES 
it from the Pegu Hills, nor from those of Arracan. It is essentially 
a bird of the plains, as Osmotreron phayrei is of the hills.” Davison, 
in the fifth volume of the same work, records that: ‘It has all the 
habits of the other Green Pigeons, and like them, is very noisy and 
quarrelsome when feeding . . . the note is similar to that of T’reron 
nepalensis ; it is broader and more rolling.” 
Harington, describing its occurrence in the dry zone in Upper 
Burma, writes to me: “Its well-known whistling call can generally 
be heard round almost every village and Phonygi Kyoung during the 
early morning, so that one can always be sure of bagging one or two of 
these Green Pigeons when needed for the pot. It is, again, extremely 
plentiful in the open valleys of the Shan States, at an elevation of 
some 2,000 ft., being very partial to the ficus and pepul trees which 
are plentiful near villages and bazaars in these parts. 
“T have never noticed them in thick or dense jungle, where their 
place seems to be taken by O. phayrei and bisincta, they have, however, 
been recorded from all parts of Burma. 
“When the berries of the ficus and pepul are ripe large numbers 
congregate, and very fair shooting can be got by finding out their line 
of flight, as when disturbed at one set of feeding places, they generally 
take the same route to some other favourite trees.” 
