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peninsula. Its habits are much the same as those of our 

 English bird ; like it, it frequents towns and villages, and is 

 rarely seen in the jungle at any distance from habitations. It 

 swarms in all the Settlements, searching among the horse- 

 dung for grain, after the manner of its European brother, 

 which, to a casual observer, it closely resembles. 



It builds its large, loosely put together nest of straw and 

 other materials under the eaves of houses or in holes in walls, 

 often ousting the Javan Sparrow which may happen to have 

 previously taken possession, as was the case with a pair 

 which built under the roof of our mess-house. 



P. montanus extends eastward to China. In my notes I 

 find : — " Hong Kong, 1st Jan., 1879. All the Sparrows here 

 appear to be of one species, the Mountain- Sparrow (P. mon- 

 tanus, Linn.). Today one flew into my window ; so, putting 

 it in a cage for an hour, I had a good look at its markings, 

 then let it fly away. It was in beautiful plumage. The white 

 line passing round the back of the neck, and the black ear- 

 patches, are the chief characteristics of the species ; and the 

 chestnut markings seemed to me brighter than in the English 

 P. domesticus. The sexes are alike/^ 



Treron nipalensis, Hodgs. 



I only once met with this Green Pigeon, at Kwala Kangsar, 

 and never saw it in any of the Malaccan collections, so think 

 it may safely be put down as rare. 



Treron capellei, Temm. 



One I got from Malacca measured about 15 inches in 

 length ; plumage dull green, pale and bluish on the abdomen 

 and forehead, large patch on breast bright orange, wiug- 

 quills and outer tail-feathers dark slate-colour, the latter 

 tipped with bluish white, wing-coverts narrowly edged with 

 yellow, under tail-coverts cinnamon. 



Osmotrbron olax (Temm.). 



Mr. Davison told me he found this Pigeon common in 

 Singapore ; but such was not my experience, as I scarcely 

 ever saw it there, while the larger species (0. vernans) was 

 very abundant. 



