(3) CROCOPUS PHOENICOPTERUS CHLOROGASTER (Blyth). 
THE SOUTHERN GREEN PIGEON. 
Vinago chlorogaster Blyth, J.A.S.B., XII, lst part, p. 167 (1843). 
Treron jerdont Strik., Ann. Mag. N.H., XIII p. 38. 
Treron chlorigaster Blyth, J.A.S.B., XIV p. 850; id., Cat. B.M.A.S.B., p. 229. 
Crocopus chlorogaster Bp., Con. Av., IL p. 12; Adam, Str. Feath., I p. 390; 
Salvadori, Cat. B.M., XXI p. 30; Blanf., Avi. Brit. I., IV p. 6; Sharpe, 
Hand-List, I p. 853; Oates, Cat. Eggs B.M., I p. 81; Dewar, 
J.B.N.H.S., XVI p. 494; Martin Young, ib., p. 514; Moss King, ib., 
XXI p. 98; Pitman, ib., XXII. p. 194; Aitken, Com. B. Burma, p. 153. 
Crocopus chlorigaster Jerdon, B.I., IIL p. 448; Blanf., J.A.S.B., XX XVII 
pt. m p. 187; Ball, Str. Feath., II p. 423; Butler, ib., IV p. 2; Hume, 
ib.; Fairbank, ib., p. 261; Hume, Nests and Eggs, III p. 492; Fairbank, 
Str. Feath., V p. 408; Ball, ib., VIL p. 224; Murray, ib., p.113; Hume, 
Cat. no. 773; id., Str. Feath., VIII., p. 109; Vidal, ib., IX p. 73; 
Legge, B. Cey., p. 722; Reid, Str. Feath., X p. 58; Davidson, ib., 
p. 314; Davison, ib., p. 406, Taylor, ib., p. 463; Barnes, B. Bom., 
285; id., J.B.N.H.S., V p. 328; Oates, in Nests and Eggs, 2nd ed., 
II p. 372; Davidson, J.B.N.H.S., XII p. 61. 
Vernacular Names. JHarial, Hin.; Pacha Gawa,Tel.; Pacha pora,Tam. 
Description.—Adult male. Differs from Crocopus ph. phoenicopterus 
in having the under-parts practically unicoloured, from chin to vent, 
yellow; the fore-head shows no green at all, or has this confined merely 
to the edge of the bill; the lores and the whole of the side of the head 
are grey unmixed with green and the grey often encroaches on to the sides 
of the chin and throat; there is no basal band of green on the upper part of 
the tail, though some birds may have a tinge of this colour upon the outer 
webs at the base of the central rectrices. 
The female differs from the male in the same way as does that of 
phoenicopterus and viridifrons. 
The size and colour of the soft parts are the same as in the two other 
subspecies, 
Distribution. The Southern Green Pigeon has the widest distribution 
of the three subspecies, for it is found throughout the whole of southern 
India and Ceylon, whilst north it extends through Central India and Madras 
and throughout Orissa, but it is replaced by C. ph. phoenicopterus in south 
Bengal, though here a few birds are intermediate between the two. Further 
west in Behar, the Southern Green Pigeon is still common in the south, 
but less so in central Behar, and is entirely replaced by the Bengal form 
in the north. 
Inglis has specimens from Behar which cannot be referred decidedly to 
either race, and Ball, writing from Lucknow, says: “ Most of my specimens 
