CEOCOPUS. 5 



Key to the Species. 



a. Upper breast greenish yellow ; lower breast 



and abdomen ashy grey C. pkocnicopferus, p. 5. 



6. Whole breast and abdomen yellowish green . C. chlorogaster, p. 6. 



1271. Crocopus phcenicopterus. The Bengal Green Pigeon. 



Columba phoenicoptera, Lath. Ind. Orn. ii, p. 597 (1790). 

 Columba militaris, Temm. Pigeons, pi. 1 (wee pi. 2) (1808). 

 Columba hardwickii, Gray in Griff. An. Kingd. viii, pi. 291 (1829). 

 Treron phoenicoptera, Bh/th, J. A. S. B. xiv, p. 849 ; id. Cat. p. 229. 

 Treron viridifrons, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xiv, p. 849 (1845) ; id. Cat. 



p. 228; Stanford, Ibis, 1870, p. 469. 

 Crocopus phosnicopterus, Jerdon, B. I. iii, p. 447 ; Beavan, Ibis, 



1868, p. 370; Godw.-Aust. J. A. S. B. xxxix, pt. 2, p. 272; 



McMaster, J. A. S. B. xl,pt. 2, p. 214; Lloyd, Ibis, 1873, p. 414; 



Adam, S. F. i, p. 390; Ball, S. F. ii, p. 423; Hume, N. 8f E. 



p. 491 ; Hume, S. F. iv, p. 2 ; Cripps, S. F. vii, p. 29o ; Hume, 



Cat. no. 772 ; Scully, S. F. viii, p. 339 ; Oates in Humes N. $ E. 



2nd ed. ii, p. 370 ; Salvador*, Cat. B. M. xxi, p. 26. 

 Crocopus viridifrons, Jerdon, B. I. iii, p. 449; Hume, S. F. iii, 



p. 161 ; Godw.-Aust. J. A. S. B. xxxix, pt. 2, p. Ill ; xiv, pt. 2, 



p. 83 ; Blyth $ Wald. Birds Burm. p. 143 ; Hume fy Dav. S. F. 



vi, p. 410 ; Anderson, Yunnan Exped., Ares, p. 664 : Hume, Cat. 



no. 773 bis ; Bingham, S. F. ix, p, 194 ; Oates, B. B. ii, p. 307 ; 



Hume, S. F. xi, p. 290 ; Sahadori, t. c. p. 28. 



Haridl, H. ; Haitha, Assamese ; Ngu, Bom-ma-di, Burm. 



Coloration. Occiput and nape, with ear-coverts, dark grey ; lores, 

 forehead, cheeks, chin, throat, upper breast, and neck all round 

 greenish yellow, becoming deeper on the upper breast and still 

 darker and tinged with olive on the hind neck ; an ashy-grey collar 

 round the base of the neck ; back, rump, scapulars, tertiaries, and 

 most of the wing-coverts yellowish olive-green, growing grey in 

 general, but not always, on the rump and upper tail-coverts ; smaller 

 wing-coverts near the bend of the wing lilac; quills blackish, 

 narrowly edged with yellow outside, greater coverts with broader 

 yellow outer borders ; terminal halt' of tail dove-grey, basal half 

 yellowish green above, black beneath ; lower breast, abdomen, and 

 whole inner surface of wings light ashy grey, contrasting sharply 

 with the yellow upper breast, but becoming tinged with yellow 

 towards the vent; tibial plumes pure yellow; lower flanks dark 

 green, with broad yellowish-white edges ; under tail-coverts dull 

 chestnut, with buff tips. 



Females are slightly smaller, and the lilac patch on the wing is, 

 as a rule, less extensive. 



Soft parts of bill greenish, hard parts bluish white ; iris blue, with 

 an outer circle of pink; legs orange-yellow ; claws bluish (Oates). 



Length about 13 inches, tail 4-5, wing 7*5, tarsus 1, bill from 

 gape 1 ; in females, length 12'5, wing 7*2. 



Distribution. Along the base of the Himalayas as far west as the 

 Jumna, scattered over the Eastern Punjab and Northern India 

 generally, but less commonly than the next species ; occurring 



