OSMOTRERON. 11 



Coloration. Male. Head and neck all round bright cinnamon- 

 red, becoming maroon on the upper back and smaller wing-coverts ; 

 middle wing-coverts partly olive, partly, like the greater coverts 

 and quills, black ; scapulars and last tertiaries olive, median arid 

 greater coverts and some tertiaries more broadly, secondaries more 

 narrowly, bordered with yellow outside, primaries with a linear 

 whitish edge ; rump greenish slaty ; upper tail-coverts, middle 

 tail-feathers and part of next pair green-olive ; all the outer tail- 

 feathers black with broad pale grey tips, over half an inch wide on 

 the outer feathers ; breast ochreous with an olive tinge ; abdomen 

 olive, the feathers tipped with yellow on the lower flanks and near 

 the vent ; tibial coverts pure yellow ; flanks and wing-lining 

 slaty grey, under tail-coverts pale cinnamon. 



In the female the crown is dark slaty grey, the rest of the upper 

 plumage olive-green ; lower plumage lighter and yellower green ; 

 feathers of the lower flanks dark green with whitish edges ; vent 

 and tibial coverts bright yellow as in the male ; lower tail-coverts 

 whitish, dark green towards the base. 



Upper mandible to just beyond nostril and lower mandible to 

 angle of genys deep red in males, dull red in females, rest, of bill 

 white in both sexes, tinged with greenish blue ; irides in the male 

 buffy pink, in the female with an outer ring of pink and an inner 

 one of ultramarine-blue ; orbital skin plumbeous-green, and edges 

 of eyelids orange in both sexes ; legs and feet purplish pink in the 

 male, lake-pink in the female ; claws dead white (Davison). 



Length about 10*5 ; tail 3*6 ; wing 6 ; tarsus -8 ; bill from 

 gape -8. Females are rather smaller. 



Distribution. A winter visitor to the extreme south of Tenasserim, 

 where this pigeon was obtained by Mr. Davison near Bankasoon 

 in December and January. It ranges through Cochin China, the 

 Malay Peninsula and Archipelago to the Philippines and Celebes. 



1278. Osmotreron bicincta. The Orange-breasted Green Pigeon. 



Vinago bicincta, Jerdon, Madr. Jour. L. S. xii, p. 13. $ (1840) : id. 



III. Ind. Orn. pi. 21. 



Vinago unicolor, Jerdon, Madr. Jour. L. 8. xii, p. 14, . 

 Treron hicincta, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xiv, p. 851 ; id. Cat. p. 229. 

 Osmotreron bicincta, Bp. Consp. Av. ii, p. 12 ; Jerdon, B. I. p. 440 ; 



Beavan, Ibis, 1868, p. 371 ; Godw.-Aust. J. A. S. B. xxxix, pt. 2, 



p. 272 ; Hume, N. $ E. p. 493 ; Hume, S. F. iii, p. 162, vi,p. 414 ; 



Blyth Sf Wald. Birds Burm. p. 144 ; Armstrong, S. F. iv, p. 337 ; 



Gates, S. F. v, p. 163 ; Hume $ Dav. S. F. vi, p. 411 ; Ball, S. F. 



vii, p. 224 ; Hume, Cat. no. 774 ; Legge, Birds Ceyl. p. 725 ; 



Layard, Ibis, 1880, p. 283; Hume fy Inglis, S. F. ix, p. 257; 



Davison, S. F. x, p. 406 ; Taylor, ibid. p. 463 ; Oates, B. B. ii, 



p. 308; id. in Hume's N. $ E. 2nd ed. ii, p. 374; Hume, S. F. xi, 



p. 291 ; Salvadori, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. (2) iv, p. 610 ; id. Cat. 



B. M. xxi, p. 57 ; Davidson, Jour. Bom. N. H. Soc. v, p. 328 ; 



ix, p. 489. 



Chitta putsa guwa, Tel. 



