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SUB-FAMILY, Treroninse. 



Bill stronger and thicker than in the other two sub-families ; 

 tail typically short ; tarsi and feet stout, soft, with very broad 

 soles. 



GENUS, Crocopus, Bonap. 



Bill tolerably short and stout, with the soft basal portion 

 occupying about half the length of the bill ; the inner web of the 

 third primary distinctly sinuated ; feet yellow. 



Crocopus phcenicopterus, Lath. 



772. Jerdon's Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 447 ; Butler, Guzerat ; r i / 

 Stray Feathers, Vol. IV, p. 2. 



THE BENGAL GREEN PIGEON. 



Length, 12*5 ; expanse, 22 ; wing, 7'5 ; tail, 5 ; bill at front, 0'8. 



Bill whitish ; irides carmine, with an outer ring of smalt-blue ; 

 feet deep-yellow. 



Top of the head, and sides of the base of the neck, (forming a 

 demi-collar) ash-grey, contrasting with the yellow-green of the 

 back of the neck ; a green tinge on the forehead ; the rest of the 

 plumage green ; shoulders of the wing lilac in the male, and with 

 a trace of the same in the female ; the greater-coverts margined 

 with pale-yellow, forming an oblique bar across the wing ; the 

 terminal two-fifths of the tail ash-grey above, deeply tinged 

 with green, albescent beneath, with the medial portion blackish ; 

 beneath, the neck and breast are bright yellow-green, with a 

 shade of fulvous, and the abdominal region ash-grey ; the lower 

 belly generally more or less mixed with green, but bright yellow in 

 the middle, as are the tibial feathers ; vent mingled white and 

 green ; under tail- coverts dull vinous-maroon, with white tips, 

 inclining to greenish in the female. 



The Bengal Green Pigeon has only doubtfully been recorded 

 from Mount Aboo. It does not occur elsewhere within our limits. , 



Crocopus chlorigaster, Blyth. 



773. Jerdon's Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 448 ; Butler, Guzerat ; 

 Stray Feathers, Vol. IV, p. 2 ; Deccan, Stray Feathers, 7 r 

 Vol. IX, p. 419 ; Murray's Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 200 ; 

 Swinhoe and Barnes, Central India ; Ibis, 1885, p. 130. 



THE SOUTHERN GREEN PIGEON. 



Harriot, Hin. 



Length, 13; expanse, 22; wing, 7; tail, 4'5 ; tarsus, 0'8 ; 

 bill at front, 0'8 ; bill from gape, 1. 



Bill whitish, tinted blue at base and beneath ; irides carmine ; 

 legs waxy-yellow. 



This species differs from the last in having the whole top of 

 the head ashy, devoid in adults, of the slightest tinge of green 

 on the forehead, and the whole under parts are green ; the neck 



