(8) OSMOTRERON FULVICOLLIS (Wagl.). 
THE CINNAMON-HEADED GREEN PIGEON. 
(PLATE 2.) 
Columba fulvicollis Wagl., Sys. Av. sp. 8 (1827). 
Osmotreron fulvicollis Hume, Str. Feath., [IV p. 224; id., Cat. no. 776, bis; 
Hume and Dav., Str. Feath., VI p. 413; Oates, B. Burma, IT p. 311; 
Hume, Str. Feath., VIII pp. 67 and 109; Salvadori, Cat. B.M., XXI 
p. 52; Blanf., Avi. Brit. I, IV p. 10; Sharpe, Hand-List, I p. 53; 
Butler, J.B.N.H.S., XII p. 772; Harington, B. Burma, p. 117. 
Treron fulvicollis Blyth, Cat. B.M.A.8.B., p. 339; Everett, J.S.B.A.8., p. 196 
(part). 
Vernacular Names. None recorded. 
Description.—Adult male. Head, neck, and upper-breast cinnamon ; 
above darker and tinged with purple, below paler and more yellow, changing 
gradually to orange-ochre on the lower-breast. Interscapulars, scapulars, 
back, and lesser wing-coverts purple-maroon; rump slate changing into 
olive-green on the upper tail-coverts. Central tail-feathers above dull olive- 
green, the others olive-grey with a pure grey terminal band and a subterminal 
black one. Abdomen mixed yellowish-green and grey, varying very greatly 
in their proportions in different individuals ; flanks dark dove-grey, becoming 
deep slate-grey posteriorly ; tibial plumes and vent bright yellow, much 
mixed with slate; under tail-coverts dull cinnamon, the longer often with 
green centres. Under aspect of tail black with grey tip. Primaries black, 
very narrowly margined on the outer webs and on the terminal quarter of 
the inner webs with yellowish-white; winglet, secondaries, greater and 
median coverts black with yellow margins, broadest on the inner secondaries ; 
innermost secondaries glossed with olive-green; under wing-coverts and 
axillaries french-grey. 
Colours of soft parts. “‘ Legs and feet purplish pink, claws white, lower 
mandible to angle of gonys and upper mandible to just beyond nostril deep 
red, rest of bill dead white, strongly tinged with greenish blue. Iris buffy 
pink; naked space round eye plumbeous green” (Davison). The edges of 
the iris are orange. 
Measurements. “Length about 10.5; tail 3.6; wing 6; tarsus .8; 
bill from gape .8” (Blanford). 
The series I have examined have wings varying between 5.85 in. 
(= 148.5 mm.) and 5.40 (= 136.2 mm.), and average 5.65 in. (= 143.5 mm.). 
Adult female. Has the cinnamon and maroon of the upper-parts replaced 
by dull olive-green and below by pale yellowish-green, more or less mixed 
with grey on the abdomen. The crown from the fore-head to the nape is 
grey, showing in good contrast to the greenish supercilia. The chin in some 
