194 ADDITIONAL NOTES ON THE BIRDS OF TENASSER1M 



773 bis.— Crocopus viridifrons, Blyth. 



I have only come across this fine green Pigeon in the 

 Thoungyeen valley. It is not uncommon on the banks of 

 the Meplay, where I found a nest as detailed below: — ^ 



At the place where the Hteechara choung flows into the 

 Meplay stands a grand old Ficus tree, which in March is loaded 

 with fruit and becomes the resort of Hornbills, Pigeons, Barbets, 

 and innumerable other birds. On the 16th of the above month, 

 I found in a small Zizyphus tree {Zizyphus jujuba), growing 

 about twenty yards from the Ficus, a nest of this Pigeon con- 

 taining two pure white eggs slightly set. The nest was the 

 usual careless few twigs laid cross and across, and was not 

 more than twelve feet from the ground. I shot the female 

 as she flew off. The eggs measured, l-23"x0'90" and 1-22" X 

 C'81" respectively. 



776.— Osmotreron phayrii, Myth. 



I have found this the commonest green Pigeon n the 

 Thoungyeen and the higher parts of the Houndra w river 

 Elsewhere I have not come across it. 



780.— Carpophaga senea, Lin. 



This common Imperial Pigeon I have seen in the north on 

 the Yoonzaleeu choung, on the Attaran, Gyne, and Houndraw 

 rivers, but nowhere in such numbers as in July on the 

 Salween, where, in one day, driving them backwards and foi- 

 wards between a few Ficus trees in fruit, I managed to bag 

 over thirty. 



It is not rare in the Thoungyeen. 



On the 19th March, on the road from the village of 

 Podresakai to Meplay, I found a nest of the above Pigeon with 

 the usual solitary egg, which proved to be hard-set. It was 

 easily seen from below through the flimsy nest of a few 

 sticks and straws laid cross and across a horizontally grow- 

 ing bamboo, where a smaller shoot had forked out from it. I 

 shot the female as she flew off and sat on a neighbouring tree. 



The egg is pure white and slightly glossy, measuring 1*8" 

 by 1-32". 



795 Ms.—- Turtur tigrinus, Tern, 

 797.— Turtur humilis, Tem. 



Both these Doves are common, the former frequenting even 

 dense evergreen forests, the latter affectiDg cultivation 

 clearings. 



