(4) OSMOTRERON POMPADORA PHAYREI (Blyth). 
THE ASHY-HEADED GREEN PIGEON. 
(FRONTISPIECE.) 
Treron malabarica (part) Blyth, J.A.S.B., XIV p. 852 (1845) ; id., Cat. R.A.S.B., 
p. 229. 
Osmotreron phayret Blyth, J.A.S.B., XXTI p. 344 (1862); Jerdon, B.I., IIT p.451; 
Blyth and Wald., B. Burma, p. 144; Godw.-Aus., J.A.S.B., XXXIX 
pt.2 p.ili; id. ib, XLV pt. 2 p. 83; Hume, Str. Feath., II p. 162; 
Inglis, ib., V p. 39; Hume and Dav., ib., VI p. 412 ; Hume, Cat. no. 776 ; 
id., Str. Feath., VIII p. 109; Bingham, Str. Feath., IX p. 194; Oates, 
B. Burma, II p. 310; id., Hume’s Nests and Eggs, 2nd ed., IT., p. 376 ; 
Hume, Str. Feath., X p. 235; id. ib., XI p. 291; Salvadori, Cat. B.M., 
XXI p. 43; Blanf., Avi. Brit. I, IV p. 8; Sharp, Hand-List, I p. 54 ; 
Oates, Cat. Eggs B.M., I p. 52; Harington, B. Burma, p. 63; Stuart 
Baker, J.B.N.H.S., X p. 364; Inglis, ib., XI p. 457; Stuart Baker, ib., 
XVII p. 970; Mears, ib., XVIII p. 86; Harington, ib., XIX p. 365. 
Vernacular Names. Daorep, Cachari; Inruigum, Naga.; Vohpolip, 
Kuki; Chota Haitha, Assamese ; Chota Harial, Sylheti; Ngu, Burmese ; Chota 
Harial, Bengali. 
Description.—Adult male. Whole crown of head and nape ashy-grey, 
the nape most pale, as a rule, and most pure in colour, the fore-head mixed 
with green and duller. Neck behind and extreme upper-back green, fairly 
well defined from the grey of the head and also from the chestnut-maroon 
of the back, scapulars, and lesser wing-coverts ; lower-back, rump, and upper 
tail-coverts green, rather more yellowish than the neck. Outer tail-feathers 
black, each succeeding pair becoming more greenish, until the central ones 
are entirely of this colour and practically unicolorous with their coverts ; 
a broad band of grey at the tips of all but the central feathers. 
Lores, sides of head and narrow supercilium green, well defined from the 
grey of the crown and nape; throat and fore-neck the same, but much more 
yellow ; upper-breast a creamy-orange, occasionally tinged with vinous or 
pink ; lower-breast, abdomen, and flanks greenish, deepening in colour on the 
lower-flanks and thigh-coverts which are splashed with yellow; feathers 
of the vent and under tail-coverts cinnamon, the former sometimes a little 
the paler of the two and with yellowish borders. Median and greater wing- 
coverts black, fading to grey on the inside of the webs, the former with broad 
and the latter with narrow borders of yellow on the outer-webs ; quills black 
inclining to grey on the inside of the inner webs, the primaries with narrow 
yellowish white margins and the secondaries with yellow borders, becoming 
very broad on the innermost which are also often much suffused with the 
same tint of maroon as that of the scapulars. Axillaries and under wing- 
coverts grey, with sometimes a tinge of green. 
