(7) OSMOTRERON POMPADORA CHLOROPTERA (Blyth). 
THE ANDAMANESE GREEN PIGEON. 
Treron chloroptera Blyth, J.A.S.B., XIV p. 852 (1845); id., Cat., p. 229. 
Osmotreron chloroptera Jerdon, B.I., IV p. 451; Ball, J.A.S.B., XLI pt. um. 
p. 286 ; id., Str. Feath., I p. 78 ; Hume, ib., II p. 258; id. ib., III p. 162 ; 
id. ib., VI p. 414; id., Cat. no. 777, bis; Salvadori, Cat. B.M., XXI 
p. 49; Blanf., Avi. Brit. I, IV p. 10; Sharpe Hand-List, I p. 54; 
Butler, J.B.N.H.S., XII p. 687; Osmaston, ib., XVII p. 488 ; Richmond, 
Proc. N.M.U.S., XXV p. 308. 
Osmotreron chloroptera andamanensis Butler, ib. 
Vernacular Names. None known. 
Description.—Adult male. Differs from the male of phayrei in having 
the lower wing-coverts green, of a darker, less yellow tinge than the neck, 
and the green of the upper-parts is more yellow except on the central rectrices. 
The maroon on the back is darker than it is in phayrei, and as dark as it is 
in affinis. There is no orange on the breast and the lower tail-coverts are 
dark, rather dull green, with broad yellowish-white borders. The grey of 
the head is lighter and unmixed with green on the fore-head, fading into the 
green of the lower half of the lores and also merging into the green of the 
neck, from which it is never sharply defined. 
Legs and feet pale carnation-pink or purplish-pink, claws horny or 
plumbeous tinged with pink; bill a whitish-blue or leaden-blue tinged with 
green near the base, and with plumbeous cere. Iris, first ring pale blue, 
second ring darker blue, and third ring fleshy-bufi. Orbital skin plumbeous, 
yellowish next the eye (from W. Davison’s notes). ‘Feet dull purple” 
(Butler). 
Dimensions. “Length about 12.5; tail 4; wing 6.75; tarsus 1, bill 
from gape 1.05” (Blanford). 
The wing-measurements of the series in the British Museum vary between 
6.75 in. (= 171.4 mm.) and 7.2 ( = 182.9 mm.) and average 6.91 in. 
( = 175.5 mm.). Davison gives the weight of a big male as being .75 lb. 
Adult female. Similar to the male, but wanting the maroon on the 
upper-parts. The cap of grey is perhaps even less well-defined and duller in 
colour. 
Colours of soft parts, as in male. Davison says that the iris is “ pale 
blue blending into puce.” 
“ Bill leaden greenish at base and on cere ” (Butler). 
