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extends from shoulder to shoulder quite across the back, and 

 between it and the yellowish-green of the back of the neck the 

 colour is ashy. Lower down the maroon gradually blends into 

 a dark leaf-green, which extends to the tail. The primaries, 

 however, are dark slaty-blue, almost black, the outer webs of 

 the quills as well as the secondaries being slightly edged with 

 yellow. The vent and flanks in both sexes are of green and yel- 

 low mixed ; and the under tail-coverts in the male are very pale 

 cinnamon, while in the female they are yellow with green in 

 the middle. The inner surface of the wings and the tail- 

 feathers are slaty-blue in both sexes. The specimens ob- 

 tained at Simla, 7th June, 1866, measured in the flesh as 

 follows : — 



Tail. Bill from front. Tarsus. Spread foot. 



5-125 -875 -75 2 



5-25 -875 -8125 2 



5-125 -8125 -75 2 



779. Sphenocercus apical' dus. Pin-tailed Green Pigeon. 

 A single specimen was procured by me at Darjeeling in 1862 ; 



but I much regret I can find nothing recorded about it in my 

 note-book, except that I got it in the valley of the Great Rungeet 

 River. 



780. Carpophaga sylvatica. Green Imperial Pigeon. 



I procured a fine specimen of a female of this magnificent 

 species at Kyodan, on the Salween River in Burmah, on the 

 17th of August, 1865. Its length was 17, wing 9, tail 6-75, 

 tarsus 1*25, bill, from front, 1, extent about 27. Irides blood- 

 red. Orbits pearly-grey, with a red edging. The bill had both 

 mandibles of a greyish-white colour, more horny towards the 

 tip, and pinkish over the nostrils. Claws slate-coloured. I 

 also procured one specimen of this species in the Maunbhoom 

 district, in 1864 to the best of my recollection. 



782. Alsocomus puniceus. Purple Wood-Pigeon. 



Like Colonel Tickell, I found this species in the Maunbhoom 

 district, in 1864, in small parties of four or five, in the thick and 

 high trees, which, in that district, are invariably found growing 

 along the banks of rivers ; and my first specimen was procured 



