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a slight gloss, and with very fine compact shells. They measure 

 1-6 by 1-25, both being of precisely the same shape and size. 



Mr. J. Inglis writes from Cachar : " The Imperial Green 

 Pigeon is common. It breeds during the rains. The only nest I 

 have seen was in a thicket, about 30 feet from the ground. It 

 contained two young birds newly hatched. The nest consisted of 

 a very few sticks and a few stiff grasses." 



Major C. T. Biiigham, writing from Tenasserim, says : " This 

 common Imperial Pigeon I have seen in the north on the Yoouza- 

 leen chouug, on the Attaran, Gyne, and Houndraw rivers, but 

 nowhere in such numbers as in July on the Salween, where in one 

 day, driving them backwards and forwards between a few Ficus 

 trees in fruit, I managed to bag over thirty. 



" It is not rare in the Thoungyeen. 



" On the 19th March, on the road from the village of Podresakai 

 to Meplay, I found a nest of the above Pigeon with the usual 

 solitary egg, which proved to be hard-set. It was easily seen from 

 below through the flimsy nest of a few sticks and straws laid 

 across and across a horizontally-growing bamboo, where a smaller 

 shoot had forked out from it. I shot the female as she flew off 

 and sat on a neighbouring tree. 



" The egg is pure white and slightly glossy, measuring 1*8 inch 

 by 1-32. 



" On the 17th February, 1877, 1 found four nests of this Pigeon 

 at Cheoukhon, a small village about three miles from the south 

 bank of the Wimjeo river in Tenasserim. 



" They were all placed in the forks of small trees from 12 to 20 

 feet above the ground, and were of the usual Pigeon type, mere 

 platforms of twigs without a semblance of lining. Three out of 

 the four contained one young one each ; the fourth a pure white 

 cylindrical egg, very slightly set, and measuring 1'77 by 1*26." 



From Ceylon, Colonel Legge writes of this species : " I am not 

 aware that its nest has been taken by any naturalist in Ceylon ; 

 but I am able to state that it breeds in April and May in the south 

 of the island, as I shot a female 011 the 28th of the former month 

 at Baddegania, in the oviduct of which was an egg almost ready 

 for expulsion." 



Carpophaga insularis, Blyth. The Nicobar Imperial Pigeon. 



Carpophaga insularis, Bhjth, Hume, Rough Draft N. 8f E. no. 

 780 ter. 



Mr. Davison remarks of this species that " they breed in 

 February and March. On the 17th February I found a nest on 

 the Island of Trinkut. It was built in a cocoanut palm, and was 

 about 20 feet from the ground. As usual with Pigeons and Doves, 

 it was simply a platform of dry twigs very loosely put together, 

 and was built on a dried-up fruit-branch, which was itself merely a 

 mass of dry twigs. It contained one large white egg. It is my 



