(15) SPHENOCERCUS SPHENURA. 
THE WEDGE-TAILED GREEN PIGEON. 
Vinago sphenura Vig., P.Z.S. (1831), p. 173. 
Vinago cantillans Blyth, J.A.S.B., p. 166 (1843). 
Treron sphenura id. ib., XIV pt. 2 p. 853; Seebohm, B. Jap. Emp., p. 163. 
Treron cantillans Blyth, J.A.S.B., XTV pt. 2 p. 854. 
Sphenocercus cantillans id., Cat. B.M.A.S.B., p. 230. 
Sphenocercus sphenurus Jerdon, B.I., IIL p. 453; Stoliczka, J.A.S.B., 
XXVIII pt. 2 p. 65; Godw.-Aus., ib., XXXIX pt. 2 p. 3; id. ib., 
XLV pt.2 p. 203; Hume and Hen., Lah. to Yark., p. 270; Hume, Nests 
and Eggs, p. 494; Hume and Oates, Str. Feath., [If p. 163; Wald., in 
Blyth’s B. Burma, p. 144; Hume and Dav., Str. Feath., VI p. 415; 
Hume, ib., VIII p. 109; id., Cat. no. 778; Scully, Str. Feath., VIII 
p. 339; Oates, B. Burma, II p. 304; Hume, Str. Feath., XI p. 292; 
Oates, in Hume’s Nests and Eggs, I p. 377; Salvadori, Cat. B.M., 
XXI p.8; Blanf., Avi. Brit. I., II p. 17; Sharpe, Hand-List, p. 52; 
Oates, Cat. Eggs B.M., I p. 80; Stuart Baker, J.B.N.H.S., X p. 364; 
Finn, ib., XIV p. 577; Rattray, ib., XVI p. 663; Ward, ib., XVII 
p. 943; Stuart Baker, ib., p. 971; Magrath, ib., XIX p. 155; Cook, 
ib., XXI p. 674; Venning, ib., p. 631. 
Sphenocercus minor Brooks, Str. Feath., II p. 255. 
Vernacular Names. Kokla, Kokila, Hin.; Kaku, Lepcha; Gnu, 
Burmese; Haintha, Bor Haintha, Assamese; Daorep gadeba, Cachari ; 
Kainal, Paharee (Simla). 
Description.—Adult male. Head and neck yellowish-green, the crown 
tinged with orange-rufous ; the green of the hind-neck passing into olive-grey 
on the upper-back, and from that again into maroon on the scapulars, inter- 
scapulars, back, and lesser wing-coverts ; lower-back, rump, upper tail-coverts 
and remaining wing-coverts and innermost secondaries olive-green, the 
median wing-coverts in old birds often more or less maroon or else edged 
with this colour, and the greater coverts narrowly edged with yellow on the 
outer webs ; quills black, or dark blackish-grey, the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th primaries 
very finely margined yellow, the secondaries changing from black to green 
until the innermost are all of this colour; the outer ones with fine yellow 
margins to the outer webs on their terminal halves. Central rectrices the 
same green as the back, the outermost dark grey washed with green and with 
a broad subterminal band of very dark grey, whilst the intermediate feathers 
grade from the green of the central ones to the grey of the outermost. Chin 
and throat yellow, breast washed with orange-pink ; lower-breast and abdomen 
greenish-yellow ; the flanks and tibial plumes dark green with broad yellow 
margins; vent pale yellow; short outer tail-coverts yellow and green, the 
longer pale dull cinnamon with dull narrow green centres and shafts. Under 
wing-coverts, quills, and axillaries dark dove-grey, the latter more or less 
mixed with green. 
