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bird sits exceedingly close, even when the eggs are fresh. The 

 eggs are pure white and, as usual, two in number. I have pelted 

 a bird with clods of earth for some time without getting it off the 

 nest," 



Lieut. H. E. Barnes writes from Rajpootana : " I found the 

 Southern Green Pigeon breeding in March." 



Mr. E. M. Adam says : " I found a nest of this species, con- 

 taining one egg, in North Behar on the 27th March. 



" In Agra I had the eggs of this species (with the bird) brought 

 to me on the 2nd June, and about the middle of June I found 

 a nest near Muttra, which contained two eggs. This nest was 

 situated on a mango-tree in a small mango tope. It was a loosely 

 made stick-structure placed on a fork." 



Messrs. Davidson and Wenden, writing of the Decean, say : 

 " Observed, but rarely, about Sholapoor. Commonest at Lauoli 

 and Egulpoora. Nests taken on the Satara Hills, where it is 

 common, in March. Observed at Nulwar." 



Colonel Butler writes : " Mr. J. Davidson sent me two eggs 

 taken at Akrani, Khandesh, on the 15th and 17th April, 1881, 

 respectively." 



The eggs do not differ, I think, perceptibly from those of the 

 preceding species, as in the whole of this family they are pure 

 white and more or less highly glossed are typically a moderately 

 broad and very perfect oval, but are not unfrequently a good deal 

 pointed towards one end. Like most of the Pigeons and Doves, 

 they vary a good deal in size, viz. in length from 1*12 to 1-35, and 

 in breadth from 0-9 to 1*0. The average of twenty-six eggs is 

 1-25 by 0-95. 



Crocopus viridifrons (Blyth). The Yellow-fronted Green 

 Pigeon. 



Crocopus viridifrons (Blyth}, Hume, Cat. no. 773 bis. 



Mr. Oates writes from Pegu : " One egg was brought in by my 

 collector with the female bird. It was found in April, and there 

 were two eggs. The nest was reported to have been placed in a 

 bamboo, at a good height up one of the branches. Size of egg 

 brought in I'll by 0'89 ; white with little gloss." 



Major C. T. Bingham remarks of this Pigeon in Tenasserim : 

 " I have only come across this fine Green Pigeon in the Thoung- 

 yeen valley. It is not uncommon on the banks of the Meplay, 

 where I found a nest as detailed below. 



" At the place where the Hteechara choung flows into the Me- 

 play stands a grand old Ficus tree, which in March is loaded with 

 fruit and the resort of Hornbills, Pigeons, Barbets, and innumer- 

 able other birds. On the 16th of the above month I found in a 

 small zizyphus tree (Zizyphus jujuba), growing about twenty yards 

 from the Ficus, a nest of this Pigeon containing two pure white 

 eggs slightly set. The nest was the usual careless few twigs laid 



