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PIN-TAILED GREEN PIGEON 79 
and so da capo. One afternoon at Matchi I bagged thirteen without 
moving, sitting in the shade under a stockade that commanded a fair 
shot at all birds crossing to and leaving a tree which happened for the 
day to be the object of their devotions. Their flight is smooth but 
not very rapid.” 
As already described this Green Pigeon and all others of the sub- 
family resort very regularly to certain fruit-bearing trees, and it is 
most probable that although Hume continued to get shots at them 
time after time, it was not the same flock at which he fired on each 
occasion. All the birds within a certain area, often a very large one, 
resort to the tree or clump of trees which, as Hume says, for the time 
being is the object of their devotions, and my own experience has 
certainly not shown me that these birds are as anxious to court 
destruction as Hume makes out to be the case. 
