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senefjalensis. The only eggs that I as yet possess of this species 

 are those taken by Mr. Irwin. 



These measure I'l by 0*9 and 1*02 by 0*85. I must say that I 

 doubt the eggs of this small bird ever being 1-25 in length ; but 

 eggs were not measured accurately with calipers in 1 845, when 

 Blyth wrote. 



Mr. Gates, writing from Pegu, remarks : " Nest with two hard- 

 set eggs in a thick bush about 7 feet from the ground. White 

 with a little gloss ; 1-06 and 1-09 by 0-87. The nest was merely 

 a few sticks laid together like a dove's. This Pigeon breeds in 

 Pegu from March to May." 



Osmotreron vernans (Linn.). The Pink-necked Green Pigeon. 

 Osmotreron veruans (Linn.\ Hume, Cat. no. 77-4 bis. 



Mr. Davison, writing from Southern Tenasserim, says : " On 

 the 12th of January (1880) I found a nest of this Pigeon, in a small, 

 very dense thorny bush. The nest was of the usual pigeon and 

 dove type, consisting merely of a few dry twigs. It was placed 

 about 5 feet from the ground." 



These eggs measure 1*15 in length by 0*81 and 0*82 respectively 

 in breadth. 



Two other eggs found at Kussoom in the Malay peninsula on 

 the 7th July measure I'll and 1-05 in length by 0-86 and 0'85 

 respectively in breadth. 



The eggs are ovals, varying from moderately broad to consider- 

 ably elongated ones, always apparently obtuse at one end, often 

 at both. They are pure white and have little gloss. 



Osmotreron malabarica, Jerd. The Grey-fronted 

 Green Pigeon. 



Osmotreron malabarica, Jerd. } Jerd. B. Ind.u,ip. 450 ; Hume, Rough 

 Draft N. $ E. no. 775. 



The Grey-fronted or Malabar Green Pigeon is peculiar to the 

 wooded and more or less hilly tracts of the Indian Peninsula. It 

 appears to breed from February to April, making the usual slight 

 stick-nest upon trees and laying two eggs. 



I have never taken the eggs myself. Mr. J. Darling, jun., writes 

 to me that he " took several nests of this species on the 10th April, 

 at an elevation of about 3000 feet, at the foot of the Terriat Hills, 

 ten miles north-west of Vythery, South Wynaad. The nests were 

 placed in ' Nelly-kai ' (the so-called gooseberry) trees, at heights of 

 from 14 to 16 feet from the ground, in forks, and one of them in 

 a bamboo, all situated in scrubby jungle with only a few scattered 

 trees. There were numbers of old nests apparently of this same 

 species all close together. The nest was a slight, ragged, shapeless 

 thing, composed of thin, dry twigs, laid together in a very disrepu- 

 table fashion, with a circular central depression lined with a few 



