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which bear fruit, and going about in nocks. In India it breeds from April 

 to July (and it will probably be found breeding in Burmah about the 

 same time), constructing a nest of twigs on the outer branches of trees, 

 and laying two eggs. 



664. SPHENOCERCUS APICICAUDA. 



THE PINTAILED GREEN PIGEON. 



Treron apicauda, Hodgs. J. A. S. B. xiv. p. 854. Sphenocercus apicaudus, 

 Jerd. B. 2nd. ii. p. 454; Wald. in El. B. Burm. p. 144 ; Hume $ Dav. S. F. vi. 

 p. 415 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 109. 



Description. Male. General colour green, tinged with yellow on the 

 crown, rump, upper tail-coverts and lower plumage ; breast tinged with 

 rufous ; under tail-coverts cinnamon, edged with whitish ; primaries and 

 secondaries blackish, very narrowly margined with yellow ; median and 

 greater coverts and tertiaries more broadly edged with yellow on the outer 

 webs; central tail-feathers green at base, ashy on the remainder, the 

 others ashy with a broad blackish band across the middle. 



The female merely differs in wanting the rufous tinge on the breast. 



Legs bright crimson-pink ; bill pale blue, horny portion whitish ; facial 

 skin pale blue ; irides, inner ring bright ultramarine blue, outer ring buffy 

 pink. (Davison.) 



Length 16 inches, tail 8, wing 6'2, tarsus '9, bill from gape 1. The 

 female is rather smaller, and has the tail shorter. 



The Pintailed Green Pigeon was sent to me by Mr. de Wet from the 

 hills east of Tonghoo ; and Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay procured it in the same 

 locality. Mr. Davison met with it in Tenasserim as far south as Mooleyit 

 mountain. 



It is found in the hill-tracts of Eastern Bengal, and along the Himalayas 

 from Assam to Nipal. 



There is very little on record about this Pigeon ; but its habits do not 

 probably differ in any respect from those of the preceding. 



S. korthalsi, which occurs in Cochin China, is not unlikely to be met 

 with in Tenasserim. It has the middle tail-feathers of great length; and 

 it is green, with the mantle maroon and the breast orange. 



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