(5) OSMOTRERON POMPADORA AFFINIS (Jerdon). 
THE GREY-FRONTED GREEN PIGEON. 
Vinago aromatica (part) Jerdon, Madr. J.L.S., XII p. 13 (1840), nec 
Columba aromatica Gin. 
Vinago affinis Jerdon, l.c. 9. 
Vinago malabarica Jerdon, Ill. Orn., III, letterpress pl. xxtv (1845); Blyth, 
Cat: B.M.A.S.B. p. 229; id., J.A.S.B., XXI p. 56. 
Treron malabarica Blyth, J.A.S.B., XIV p. 852; id., Cat., p. 229. 
Osmotreron malabarica Bp., Con. Av., IL p. 13; Jerdon, B.I., p. 450; Hume, 
Nests and Eggs, p. 493; Fairbank, Str. Feath., IV p. 261; Hume and 
Bourd, ib., p. 403; Hume, ib., p. 424; id. Cat. no. 775; Fairbank 
Str. Feath., V p. 408; Vidal, ib., [X p. 74; Butler, ib., p. 419; Davidson, 
ib., X p. 406; Barnes, B. Bom., p. 286; Oates, in Hume’s Nests and 
Eggs, 2nd ed., II p. 375; Salvadori, Cat. B.M., XXI p. 45; Sharpe, 
Hand-List, I p. 54; Oates, Cat. Eggs B.M., I p. 82; Barnes J.B.N.HLS., 
V p. 329; Davidson, ib., XII p. 61. 
Osmotreron affinis Wal., Trans. Z.S., IX p. 212; Blanf., Avi. Brit. L, 
IV p. 8; Fergusson J.B.N.H.S., XVI p. 1. 
Vernacular Name. Poda-putsa Guwa, Tel. 
Description.—Adult male. Similar to O. p. phayrei, but the upper-parts 
in this subspecies are considerably deeper in colour, in fact, more a purple- 
than a chestnut-maroon; there is never any orange on the breast, and in both 
males and females the grey of the head is duller and darker, and ill defined 
from the surrounding green. In addition to this, the male has the shoulder 
of the wing very much blacker and not mixed with grey. 
Adult female. The female affinis differs from the male in the same way 
as that of phayrez differs from the male of that subspecies. 
As I have already pointed out, all the differences between this subspecies 
and the others is one of degree only. Thus, there are some otherwise typical 
specimens of phayrei which have the heads dull and the grey ill defined ; 
here and there are some with no orange on the breast and, whilst in some 
males of phayrei the back is nearly as dark as the typical affinis, in this latter 
subspecies there are a few which have their backs and scapulars quite as 
pale as the normal phayrez. 
Colours of the soft parts are the same as in phayret. 
Measurements. “Length about 10.75; tail 3.6; wing 5.75; tarsus .8 ; 
bill from gape .9” (Blanford). 
This is a decidedly smaller bird, on an average, than the last, though 
the measurements overlap and birds from Khandesh seem a good deal bigger 
than the smallest phayret, but all over the area they inhabit there is a 
considerable range in their extremes of size. 
