(29) DENDROTRERON HODGSONI (Vigors). 
THE SPECKLED WOOD-PIGEON. 
(PiatE 15.) 
Columba hodgsoni Vigors, P.Z.S. 1832, p. 16; Blyth, J.A.S.B., XIV p. 867; 
Salvadori, Cat. B.M., XXI p. 274; Sharpe, Hand-List, I p. 70. 
Columba nepalensis Hodg., J.A.S.B., Vp. 122. 
Dendrotreron hodgsoni Hodg., in Gray’s Zool. Miscel., p. 85; Hume, 
Nests and Eggs, p. 497; Blanf., Avi. Brit. I., IV p. 33; Ward, J.B.N.HLS., 
XVII p. 943; Harington, B. Burma, p. 67. 
Alsocomus hodgsonii Blyth, Cat. B.M.A.8.B., p. 233; Jerdon, B.I., III 
p. 463; Stoliczka, J.A.S.B., XXXVII pt. m p. 65; Blanf., ib., XLI 
pt. 2, p. 70; Hume, Str. Freath., VIII p. 109; id., Cat. no. 783; 
Scully, Str. Feath., VIIL p. 399; Oates, in Hume’s Nests and Eggs, 
2nd ed., IT p. 346. 
Vernacular Names. Hagrani Daohukuruma, Cachari; Pahari Pagooma, 
Assamese. 
Description.—Adult male. Whole head, chin, throat and upper-neck 
ashy-grey, the chin generally paler and sometimes the centre of the throat 
also; lower-neck and upper-breast the same as the head, the bases of the 
feathers blackish-grey, this blackish colour gradually increasing in extent and 
becoming a claret-red until on the upper-back the grey edges to the feathers 
have disappeared, and the back, shorter scapulars, and lesser wing-coverts 
are a claret-red or claret-maroon; longer scapulars, lower-back, and rump 
slaty-brown, rump darker than the other parts and contrasting with the 
dark dove-grey upper tail-coverts, the longest of which and the rectrices 
themselves are a dark brown. Median wing-coverts claret-red, speckled with 
white gradually changing to very dark dove-grey or slaty-grey on the outer- 
most and greater coverts; primary-coverts and quills dark brown, but not 
quite as dark as the tail. Below, the feathers of the breast are centred dark 
claret-red bordered with grey, as the abdomen is approached the grey becomes 
less and less in extent and more suffused with pink until on the abdomen 
itself the grey only consists of spots, disappearing altogether on the posterior 
flanks ; tibial plumes, region of the vent, and under tail-coverts dark slaty- 
grey, this merging into and not contrasting with the red of the abdomen. 
Under aspect of wings tinged with grey on the smaller coverts. 
Colours of soft parts. Bill black, purplish in the high lights and some- 
times livid-black on the cere. Irides white or hoary-white, the surrounding 
orbital skin livid-grey or slate-colour ; legs and feet dark dull green, almost 
black in front of the tarsus and paler and more yellow behind; claws pale 
bright yellow. 
Measurements. Length 14 in. to 16 in. ( = 355.6 to 406.4 mm.) ; wing 
9 in. to 9.5 in. ( = 228.6 to 243.3 mm.) ; tail about 5.5 in. to 6.0 in. (= 139.7 
