310 BIRDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 



The Pink-necked Green Pigeon occurs in the south of Tenasserim, from 

 Mergui down to Malewoon. , 



It extends down the Malay peninsula and eastwards to Cochin China ; 

 and it is found in Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Celebes and the Philippine 

 Islands. 



Lieutenant Kelham found this species breeding at Perak in the Malay 

 peninsula in March, on bushes in swampy valleys, the nest being from 

 six to ten feet from the ground. 



669. OSMOTRERON PHAYRIL 



PHAYRE'S GREEN PIGEON. 



Osmotreron phayrii, Bl. J. A. S. B. xxxi. p. 344 ; Jerd. B. 2nd. ii. p. 451 ; Hume, 

 S. F. iii. p. 162 ; Bl B. Burm. p. 144 ; Hume fy Dav. S. F. vi. p. 412 ; Hume, 

 S.F. viii. p. 109; BingJiam, S.F. ix. p. 194; Gates, S. F. x. p. 235. 



Description. Male. Forehead, crown and nape ashy ; neck, upper back, 

 sides of neck and sides of the head green ; lower back, scapulars, lesser 

 wing-coverts and the greater ones next the body deep maroon ; rump and 

 upper tail-coverts green -, median and greater wing-coverts blackish, broadly 

 edged with bright yellow ; quills black, narrowly margined on the outer 

 web with yellow, tertiaries broadly edged with the same; centre tail- 

 feathers green, the others green at base with a broad ashy tip and a black 

 bar in front of the ashy, the black bar and ashy tip obsolete on the pair next 

 the centrals and getting more pronounced towards the outer part of the 

 tail ; chin and throat yellowish ; remainder of lower plumage green, the 

 breast tinged with orange, the sides of the body with ashy, and the feathers 

 of the flanks and legs with all but the tips yellow ; under tail-coverts 

 cinnamon ; under wing-coverts and axillaries ashy. 



The female has the maroon upper plumage of the male replaced by 

 green ; there is no orange on the breast ; and the under tail- coverts are 

 mingled green, ashy and white. 



Legs lake-red ; irides blue, with an outer circle of pink ; eyelids plum- 

 beous ; bill bluish, the base darker. 



Length 11*5 inches, tail 4, wing 6*3, tarsus '9, bill from gape 1. The 

 female is of the same size. 



Phayre's Green Pigeon occurs plentifully in all the hill-tracts of the 

 Province as far south as Tavoy, below which place Mr. Davison does not 

 appear to have observed it. 



It extends to the east as far as Cochin China, and north to Assam and 

 Lower Bengal. 



