416 BIRDS OF TENASSERIM. 



[This species occurred in the same localities as the last, but 

 was even more rare. It has a peculiarly pleasant and musical 

 call, a whistling- coo, but quite different from that of any of 

 the other green pigeons. It is entirely a forest bird, never that 

 I am aware coming into the open. — W. D.] 



The following are dimensions and colors of the soft parts of 

 two males and two females recorded in the flesh : — 



Males. — Length, 16"0 to 16'82 to end of central tail fea- 

 thers ; expanse, 19*75 to 20*4 ; tail from vent, 8'3 to 9'0 to end of 

 central feathers; wing, 65 to 6*62 ; tarsus, 092 to 0"95 ; bill 

 from gape, - 95 to l'O ; weight, 7*0 to 8'0 ozs. 



Females. — Length, 14'25 to 14*9 to end of central tail fea- 

 thers; expanse, 193 to 202 ; tail from vent, 6*5 to 7*12 to end 

 of central feathers; wing, 6 - 45 to 66 ; tarsus, 0'85 to 09 ; bill 

 from gape, - 9 to 1*1 ; weight, 7 - ozs. 



Legs bright crimson pink ; bill pale blue ; horny portion 

 whitish; facial skin pale blue; irides, inner ring bright ultrama- 

 rine blue, outer ring buffy pink. 



780.— Carpophaga senea, Lin. (20). 



(TongTioo, Lloyd.) Pahpoon ; Ckcon Khon ; Thatone ; Meetan ; Amherst ; 

 Lemyne ; Yea ; Tavoy ; Mergui ; Bankasoon. 



Generally distributed throughout the better- wooded portions 

 of the province, but does not ascend the higher hills. 



[The common Imperial Pigeon occurs in Tenasserim, alike 

 in heavy forest, thin tree jungles and low scrub, but I have 

 never met with it in even the best wooded gardens. It goes 

 about sometimes singly or in pairs, sometimes in immeuse 

 flocks. It never descends to the ground, and lives entirely on 

 fruits and berries, often as large as walnuts, which it invariably 

 swallows whole. It feeds chiefly in the mornings and evenings, 

 resting during the heat of the day in some shady place, but 

 never, I believe, coming down to the water to drink. Their 

 flight is rapid and powerful, and they start off from the trees, 

 with aloud fluttering put-put-put of their wings. They are 

 not quarrelsome like many of the green pigeons, on the con- 

 trary always gentle and sociable together. Their note, a deep 

 resounding boom, astonishingly powerful for the size of the bird, 

 is only uttered at considerable intervals and when the bird is 

 at rest. They seem to be abundant to a degree on the islands 

 of the Mergui Archipelago, where I continually saw huge flocks 

 of them flying high over head from island to island. — W. D.] 



781. — Carpophaga insignis, Hodgs. 



Elyth recorded this species from Tenasserim, J.A.S.B.,XXVIIL, 

 1859, 416, fin the B. of B., p. 144, misprinted Arahan.) ; but as 



