COLUMBIDJ. 



1273. Osmotreron phayrei. The Ashy-headed Green Pigeon. 



Osmotreron phayrei, Blytn, J. A. S. B. xxxi, p. 344 (1862) ; Jerdon, 

 B. I. iii, p. 451 ; Godiv.-Aust. J. A. S. B. xxxix, pt. 2, p. Ill; 

 xlv, pt. 2, p. 83 ; Hume, S. F. iii, p. 162 ; Bli/th $ Wall. Birds 

 Burm. p. 144; Ing fa, S. F. v, p. 39; Hume $ Dav. S. F. vi, 

 p. 412; Hume, Cat. no. 776 ; Binyham, S. F. ix, p. 194 ; Oates,B. 



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B. ii, p. 310; id. in Humes N. $ E. 2nd ed. ii, p. 376; Hume, 

 S. F. xi, p. 291 ; Salvadori, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. (2; 

 id. Cat. B. M. xxi, p. 43. 



Coloration. Male. Crown and nape asj^y grey, forehead paler ; sides 

 of head, including the area above the eyes, find sharply defined against 

 the grey crown, greenish yellow, as are the chin, throat, and sides 

 of the neck ; neck above green, also contrasting sharply with the 

 grey nape; back, scapulars, and all the smaller wing-coverts chest- 

 nut; median and greater wing-coverts black, the first olive-green 

 in parts, both broadly edged with bright yellow ; quills black, the 

 tertiaries partly green, the secondaries narrowly, the tertiaries 

 broadly edged with yellow outside, the primaries with a linear 

 whitish edge; lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts and middle 

 tail-feathers yellowish green ; outer tail-leathers black with a broad 

 ashy tip, and with more or less green towards the middle pair ; 

 lower parts greenish olive, the upper breast strongly tinged with 

 orange ; feathers of lower flanks dark green with broad buff tips, 

 lower tail-coverts cinnamon ; wing-lining ashy grey, generally 

 more or less smeared with green. 



Female. No chestnut on the mantle, which is green throughout, 

 nor orange on the breast; lower tail-coverts chiefly buffy white, 

 with more or less green about the base and along the shaft. 



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

 skin plumbeous ; bill bluish, the base darker (Oates). 



Length about 11 ; tail 3*6 ; wing 6*1; tarsus -85 ; bill from gape 

 85. Females are a little smaller. 



Distribution. Eare in Lower Bengal, found thence throughout 

 Eastern Bengal, Assam, Cachar, Manipur, and Burma as far 

 south as Tavoy in Tenasserim, but not farther. To the eastward 

 this species is found in Cochin China. 



Habits, $c. In Burma this pigeon is found chiefly in the 

 denser forests of the hill-tracts, but it does not ascend the higher 

 ranges. It breeds about March. 



1274. Osmotreron affinis. The Grey-fronted Green Pigeon. 



Vinapro aromatica, pt., apud Jerdon, Madr. Jour, L. S. xii, p. 13 



^1840). nee Columba aromatica, Gm. 

 Vinago affinis, Jerdon, 1. c. (1840). 



Vinago malabarica, Jerdon, III. Ind. Orn. letterpress to pi. 21 (1845). 

 Treron xnalabarica, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xiv, p. 852 ; id. Cat. p. 229. 

 Osmotreron malabariea, Bp. Consp. ii, p. 13 ; Jerdcn, B. 1. iii, 



p. 450 ; Hume, N. $ F. p. 493 ; Fairbank, S. F. iv, p. 261 ; v, 



p. 408 ; Hume $ Bourd. S. F. iv, p. 403 ; Hume, ibid. p. 424 ; id. 



Cat. no. 775; Vidal, S. F. ix, p. 74: Butler, ibid. p. 419; 



