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This species appears to be confined to the denser forests on the hills; and 

 I do not remember to have ever met with it in the plains. There is nothing 

 remarkable about its habits. 



670. OSMOTRERON FULVICOLLIS. 



THE RUDDY GREEN PIGEON. 



Columba fulvicollis, Wacjl. Syst. Av., Cohimba, no. 8; Wald. Trans. Zool. Soc. ix. 

 p. 213. Treron fulvicollis, Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 288. Osmotreron fulvi- 

 collis, Hume fy Dav. S. F. vi. p. 413 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 109. 



Description. Male. The whole head and neck, with the upper breast, 

 ruddy vinaceous ; lower breast the same, but paler ; abdomen green ; sides 

 of the body ashy ; vent and flanks mixed ashy green and yellow ; thighs 

 bright yellow; under tail-coverts cinnamon; back, scapulars and lesser 

 wing-coverts maroon ; rump ashy green ; upper tail-coverts and central 

 tail-feathers dull green ; the other tail-feathers green at base, broadly tipped 

 with pale ashy and with a subterminal dark bar ; median and greater wing- 

 coverts, secondaries and tertiaries blackish, edged on the outer web with 

 yellow ; primaries all blackish. 



The female is very similar to the female of 0. phayrii, but is considerably 

 smaller. 



Legs and feet in the male purplish pink, in the female lake-pink ; claws 

 dead white in both sexes ; upper mandible to just beyond nostril and lower 

 mandible to angle of gonys, in the male deep red, in the female dull red ; 

 rest of bill in both sexes dead white tinged strongly with greenish blue; 

 irides in the male bufly pink, in the female with an outer ring of pink and 

 an inner one of ultramarine blue ; in both sexes the orbital skin is plum- 

 beous green, the edge of the eyelid orange. (Davison.) 



Length 10*5 inches, tail 3*5, wing 5'5, tarsus *8, bill from gape *8. The 

 female is rather smaller. 



The Ruddy Green Pigeon was procured by Mr. Davison in the extreme 

 south of Tenasserim, where it appears to be rare and a migrant, visiting 

 that part of the country only in December and January. 



It extends to the east as far as Cochin China ; it ranges down the Malay 

 peninsula, and occurs in Sumatra, Bangka, Borneo and the Philippine 

 Islands. 



This Pigeon is probably only partially migratory, travelling from one 

 part of the country to another as the fruits on which it feeds ripen. 



