OSMOTRERON. 501 



edged with bright yellow ; quills the same, but narrow; tail green, with a 

 broad medial dark band and broadly tipped with ashy white ; under surface 

 of the body green ; throat and neck yellowish ; vent and thigh coverts mixed 

 green and pale yellow ; under tail coverts cinnamon. The female has not the 

 maroon patch ; bill glaucous green ; legs and feet pinkish red ; irides red > with 

 an outer blue circle. 



Length. IQ'2 to ID'S inches; tail 4; wing 575. No nude space round 

 the eye. 



Sab. -Wooded and hilly tracts of the Indian Peninsula ; abundant in 

 Malabar and South India, also in Central India and the Eastern ghauts. It is 

 also found in Mysore and South Wynaad, as well as in the Assamboo hills. 



Breeds during April. Eggs pure white, and Hume says, thickly studded with 

 minute pores. 



1147- Osmotreron Phayrii, Biytk> J. A. S. B. xxxi. p. ^ 44 ; 



Jerd., B. Ind. ii. p. 451, No. 776 ; Hume, Str.F. iii. p. 162 ; Blyth, B. Burm. 

 p. 144; Hume and Dav., Sir. F. vi. p. 412; Hume, Sir. F. viii. p. 109; 

 Bingham, Str. F. ix. p. 194; Oates > Sir. F. x, p. 235; Oates, Br. Burm.ii. 

 p. 310. PHAYRE'S GREEN PIGEON. 



Very like Osmotreron malabarica, differing only in having the entire cap 

 ashy in both sexes ; breast greenish, tinged with orange. The female has not 

 the orange breast, and the maroon of the male is replaced by green; the under 

 tail coverts are mixed green, ashy and white; bill bluish; legs lake red; 

 irides blue, with an outer pink circle. 



Length \\ to 11*5 inches; tail 4; wing 6^3 ; tarsus 0*9; bill from gape r. 



Hal. Lower Bengal, Assam, Sylhet, and Burmah, where it occurs in all the 

 hilly tracts of the province, as far as Tavoy, and extends to the east as far as 

 Cochin-China. 



1148- Osmotreron fulviCOlliS (Wagler), Hume and D.av., Str, 

 F. vi. p. 413; Hume, Sir. F. viii. p. 109; Oates, B. Br. Burm. ii. p. 311. 

 Columba fulvicollis, Wagl., Syst. Av.. Columba, No. 8; Wald.* Trans^ Zool. 

 Soc. ix. p. 213. Treron fulvicollis, Salvad.y Ucc. Born., p. 28,8. The RUDDX 

 GREEN PIGEON. 



Entire head, neck and upper breast ruddy vinaceous, paling on the lower 

 breast ; abdomen green ; vent and flanks ashy green and yellow ; thighs 

 bright yellow ; rump ashy green ; sides of the body greyish white ; under tail 

 coverts cinnamon ; back, scapulars and lesser wing coverts maroon ; upper tail 

 coverts and central tail feathers dull green ; others green at base with a subter-^ 

 minal dark band and tipped with pale ashy. Legs and feet purplish pink ; bill 

 deep red ; irides buffy pink ; orbital skin plumbeous green. 



Length. \Q-$ inches; tail 3*5 ; wing 5'$ ; tarsus 0*8; bill from gape o'S^ 



