500 TRERONID/E. 



the neck by a lilac band across, forming a collar ; under tail coverts cinnamon. 

 The female has not the lilac and orange breast, and the under tail coverts are 

 pale ashy, white, dashed \vith dull greenish j bill glaucous green ; legs pinkish 

 red ; irides blue, with an outer circle of red, 



Length. 12 inches ; tail 4'2 ; wing 6-3 ; tarsus cr8 ; bill from gape I. 



Hob. The more moist and wooded portions of India and Ceylon, and also 

 in the greater part of British Burmah. Extends to Assam, Cachar, and coun- 

 tries to the eastward. Recorded from Lower Bengal and the coasts east and 

 west of India. Occurs abundantly in Nepaul, Sylhet, Tipperah, and Arrakan ; 

 also the Sub-Himalayan terais of Behar and Oudh, and the Eastern forest 

 regions of the Central Provinces. Breeds in the Nepaul terai from April to 

 June, making a nest generally on the outer branch of a tree. Eggs two in 

 number, oval, and pure white. 



1145. OsmQtreron vemanS (Linn.), Wald. Tram. Zool. Soc. 



viii. p. 8 1 ; Hume and Dav., Str. F. vi, p. 411 ; Hume, Sir. F. viii. p. 109; 

 Kelham, Ibis, 1881, p. 526 ; Oates, B. Br. Burm. ii. p. 309. Columba vernans, 

 Linn.) Mantissa Plant, p. 526. Columba viridis, Scop., Del. Flor. et Faun. 

 Insub. ii. p. 94. Osmotreron viridis, Hume, Str. F. i. p. 460. Treron 

 vernans, Salvad., Ucc. Born. p. 286. THE PINK- NECKED GREEN PIGEON. 



Forehead, crown, sides of the head, chin, throat, and sides of the body ashy ; 

 nape, hind neck, sides of the neck and breast vinaceous pink ; lower breast 

 orange ; back, rump, scapulars, tertiaries and wing coverts green, the outer, 

 median and greater coverts and some of the tertiaries margined with yellow ; 

 quills blackish, very narrowly margined with yellow; upper tail coverts 

 rufescent ; abdomen greenish yellow ; vent and. flanks mixed green and yellow ; 

 under tail coverts deep chestnut ; tail ashy, with a broad subterminal blackish 

 band, and tipped with paler ashy. The female has not the vinaceous pink 

 breast ; and the whole head, neck, and breast are green ; under tail coverts 

 yellowish white, marked with cinnamon and dull ashy green ; legs and feet 

 carnation pink ; bill pale plumbeous ; cere dirty yellowish ; irides Prussian 

 blue, with pink and buff outer circles. 



Length. 1 1 inches; tail 4; wing 57 ; tarsus o'8, bill from gape Q'85. 



Hob. Southern Tenasserim, extending down the Malay Peninsula and 

 eastwards to Cochin-China. Found also in Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Celebes, 

 and the Phillipine Islands. Breeds in the Malay Peninsula during March on 

 bushes in swampy places. 



1146. Osmotreron malabarica, Jerd* III. ind. Orn. pi. 31 ; 



id., B. Ind. ii. p. 450 ; Hume, Nests and Eggs Ind. B. p. 493 ; Hume, Sir. 

 F. iii. p. 162 ; id., Str. F. iv. p. 261 ; vi. p. 414. The GREY- FRONTED or 

 MALABAR GREEN PIGEON. 



Forehead greyish white ; mantle and wing coverts maroon ; rest of upper 

 parts, including the lores, face and ear coverts green ; wing coverts broadly 

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