CINNAMON-HEADED GREEN PIGEON 47 
specimens has a very faint rufescent tinge. Under tail-coverts pale buff, 
the centres and bases more or less marked with green. 
Colours of soft parts. “Tris with an outer ring of pink and an inner ring 
of ultramarine. The legs and feet are paler and pinker than in the male.” 
(Davison.) 
Measurements. “* Females are rather smaller than the males” (Blanford). 
The series in the British Museum do not show that there is much difference 
in size between the two sexes. The average wing-measurement is 5.62 in. 
( = 142.5 mm.), and there are several adult males with wings smaller than 
any of the females. 
Young male. Young males are like the females, but assume the adult 
plumage, to some extent, at the first autumn moult, completing it in the 
spring. The maroon and cinnamon of the upper-parts are only partially 
assumed in the autumn, giving the young bird in its first winter-plumage a 
very patchy appearance. 
Distribution. Blanford records this as only a winter-visitor to 
Tenasserim, where Davison obtained it at Bankasoon in December and 
January. It is, however, most probably a resident in Tenasserim, for my 
collectors found it there in March, when they obtained nests and eggs, though 
they reported it as very rare. 
Outside our Indian limits it is found in Cochin China, the Federated 
Malay States, and Malay Archipeligo to Celebes and the Phillipines. 
Nidification. The only note I can find on the breeding of this Green 
Pigeon is that by A. L. Butler in the Journal of the Bombay Natural History 
Society. He there records: “I took a pair of eggs of this handsome Pigeon 
in Pahang in May. The nidification, which is, of course, exactly similar to 
that of other Green Pigeons of the genus, is not described in Vol. IV of the 
Birds in the Fauna of British India, so perhaps it may be worth while 
to record the dimensions of the eggs. They are rather short and broad, both 
oe 1.1 to 1.32 by 27/32, the shell of the usual Osmotreron texture and 
gloss. 
“The nest was placed in a low tree in a little sandy Island in the Pahang 
River, on which I landed to try for a jungle fowl. The male bird flew out 
of the tree close to the nest, and I shot him before I noticed it.” 
The first pair of eggs I ever received of this bird was taken by Mr. W. A. T. 
Kellow in Simpang, Federated Malay States, who kindly sent me two pairs, 
together with portions of the skin of the parent birds. The nests were taken 
on the 11th May and 14th June respectively, and each contained two eggs, 
the former hard-set and the latter fresh. The nests were said to be the usual 
doves’ platform of sticks and twigs placed in a small sapling, low enough 
down to be reached by hand, and situated in heavy forest near the banks 
of a stream. 
Other nests and eggs received after these appear to be similar in all 
respects, but were taken in the months of January and February, and, in 
epistola, Mr. Kellow writes that he believes these two are the principal 
breeding-months in that part of the Malay Peninsula. 
My series of eggs vary in length between 1.06 in ( = 26.8 mm.) and 1.16 
( = 29.3 mm.), and in breadth between .80 in. ( — 20.3 mm.) and .90 
( = 22.8 mm.), averaging 1.12 in. ( — 28.4 mm.) by .86 ( — 21.7 mm.). 
They are, of course, pure white and of the usual short ellipse shape, and 
do not differ in grain or texture from those of other Green Pigeons. 
