48 INDIAN PIGEONS AND DOVES 
My collectors found this bird very rare in the south of Tenasserim, 
but sent me thence several specimens both of birds and their eggs. 
During the months of November to February the birds kept much 
to the outskirts of jungle and the more open country, assembling 
in very large numbers, together with other Pigeons and fruit-eating 
birds, wherever there were trees in fruit; but although the total 
numbers so collected may have been large, the flocks are said 
to have always been small, numbering some half dozen or so only. 
Their flight, voice, and general habits were said to be like those of 
Treron nepalensis, a bird very well known to the collectors. 
Davison seems to think that the birds worked south in spring, 
but this was probable merely because they retired into deeper forest 
during the breeding-season, and so escaped observation. He says 
of this Pigeon : “ This species only makes it appearance in Tenasserim 
for a couple of months, in December and January. It occurs in small 
flocks about the borders of the forest. Its note is very similar to that 
of O. vernans. It is apparently rare and very local, as I only met with 
it in two places near Bankasoon, though I was always on the look out 
for it. 
«Tt appeared to have come solely to eat the berries, much resembling 
red currants, of a thick bushy shrub about two feet in height which, 
near the Pakchem, grows about the clearings.” 
OSMOTRERON BISINCTA. 
Key to the Subspecies. 
A. Wing under 6in. ... : is ass ss bas O 
B. Wing over 6in. .... a5 ay Sisk il gets ae O. 6. 
