PINK-NECKED GREEN PIGEON 61 
five feet from the ground.” The eggs found by Davison measured 1.15 in. 
in length by .81 and .82 in breadth respectively. Two other eggs found in 
Kussoom in the Malay Peninsula measured 1.11 in. by .86 and 1.05 by .85 
in breadth. 
I have had a fair series of these eggs sent me: a few from southern 
Tenasserim taken in June and July after the rainy season had well set in 
and a number from the Malay Peninsula which were all taken in the months 
January to March. It seems probable, therefore, that the majority breed 
during the first three months of the year, though others—these may be 
second broods—continue to breed until well on into July. 
My eggs are decidedly small in comparison with the bird’s size, sixteen 
only averaging 1.08 in. by .85 ( = 27.4 by 21.6 mm.). The longest and 
broadest eggs are 1.14 ( = 28.8 mm.) by .88 ( = 22.3 mm.) respectively, and 
the shortest and most narrow 1.03 ( = 26.2 mm.) and .80 ( = 20.3 mm.). 
The six eggs in the British Museum Catalogue vary from 1.08 in. to 
1.12 in length and from .8 to .88 in breadth. 
According to Davidson, this beautiful little Pigeon is an inhabitant 
of the denser forests only, being seldom found in thin jungle or in close 
proximity to villages and gardens. They appear to go about in small 
parties, as a rule of only six or eight members, though in some places 
they collect in enormous numbers to feed or roost. 
Major H. R. Baker notes that “these birds roost in enormous 
numbers on the small mangrove-covered islands which are dotted about 
the North of the Johore river. Here sportsmen betake themselves 
in July and August, and stationing guns round an island await the 
flighting in the early morning and evening ; in this way bags of several 
hundreds of birds are sometimes made.” 
In a letter to me Major Baker gives the following interesting 
account of one of these shoots: “The Pink-necked Green Pigeon is 
extremely common in Johore, Singapore and other parts of the Malay 
Peninsula, and forms a very favourite object of shooting from July 
to September, and one of these battues, though not a successful one, 
I will try to describe to you. 
“We had received word that the Pigeons had commenced to 
flight, a sure indication that the breeding-season had finished, and 
that the young ones had joined the old birds in the morning and 
evening flight to and from the feeding-ground. It was with pleasur- 
able anticipation, therefore, that C. and I hurried down one morning 
to the wharf at Singapore, with beds, kits, guns and food, at the 
invitation of our friend the doctor who had offered to take us in his 
launch to one of the roosting-places, a mud island in the Johore river, 
thickly covered with mangrove trees. We started early for the sea 
