(6) OSMOTRERON POMPADORA POMPADORA (Gm.). 
THE POMPADOUR GREEN PIGEON. 
Columba pompadora Gm., Syst. Nat., I p. 775 (1788); Blyth, J.AS.B., 
XIV p. 852. 
Treron pompadora Blyth, J.A.S.B., XXI p. 356. 
Vinago aromatica Jerdon, Madr. J.L.S., XII p. 18. 
Treron malabarica (part) Blyth, Cat. B.M.A.8.B., p. 229. 
Treron flavogularis id., J.A.S.B., XXVI p. 225. 
Osmotreron flavogularis id. ib., XX XI p. 344. 
Osmotreron pompadora Hume, Str. Feath., III p. 162; id. ib., VI p. 414; 
id., Cat. no. 777; Legge, B. Cey., p. 728; Parker, Str. Feath., [X p. 481 ; 
Salvadori, Cat. B.M., XXI p. 51; Blanf., Avi. Brit. I., IV p. 9; Sharpe, 
Hand-List, I p. 54; Butler, J.B.N.H.S., X p. 311. 
Osmotreron pompadoura Jerdon, B.I., III p. 452. 
Vernacular Names. Batta-goya, Cing. ; Patcha-praa, Alam-praa, Tamil 
in Ceylon. 
Description. Adult male—The colour of the upper-parts where red, 
agrees in tint with the same parts in O. p. affinis. It differs from that subspecies 
in having the fore-head, lores, and sides of the head more yellowish and the 
chin and throat a pure, almost lemon-yellow. The grey of the crown is 
generally entirely replaced with green, though a few specimens have a fairly 
distinct patch of grey in the centre. The lower tail-coverts are a pale, bufty- 
white instead of cinnamon. 
Adult female. Differs from the male in the same way as they do in the 
other subspecies. 
Colours of soft parts. “Bill glaucous green, paling to bluish in the 
apical portion ; irides carmine red with a cobalt inner circle ; eyelids glaucous 
green; legs and feet purple-red ” (Legge). 
Measurements. Length about 10.5 in; tail 3.6; wing 5.6; tarsus .8 
bill from gape .9 in. (Blanford). 
There is only a small series of these birds in the British Museum, but 
enough to show that the sexes do not differ materially, if at all, in size. The 
wings vary from 5.45 in. (= 138.4 mm.) to 5.76 ( = 146.2 mm.) and average 
5.63 (= 142.8 mm.), the extremes in size being, in each case, the measure- 
ment of the wing of a female. 
Distribution. Ceylon.—Jerdon gives the habitat of this bird as Southern 
India also, but this is probably due to some mistake. Since Blanford wrote 
the Avifauna of British India, several field-ornithologists have worked Southern 
India well (amongst others who might be mentioned are Cardew, Fairbank, 
Bell, Dewar, Major Smith, Bourdillon, and others), but none have ever come 
across it. 
