154 THE PIGEONS AND DOVES. 



patience, you may make a very respectable bag before 

 the feeding hour is over. Then remorse will have its 

 turn, perhaps, as you gather up the fallen and see 

 what perfect loveliness you have destroyed for the 

 sake of your stomach. Body and wings are vivid 

 green, becoming almost yellow on the breast and 

 under parts, head and tail are pure dove gray, a 

 slanting yellow bar lights up each wing, and the 

 shoulder is finished off with a splash of lilac. The 

 feet are orange yellow and the eyes carmine with a 

 narrow outer ring of the most intense blue. This is 

 Jerdon's Southern Green Pigeon (Crocopus chlori- 

 gaster], which is the common species of the Bombay 

 Presidency. My reason for counting it among the 

 Birds of Bombay is that I believe it has been seen 

 about Malabar Point ; and indeed, where Banian and 

 Peepul trees are so plentiful, it is not likely to be 

 absent, 



