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A FIRST LIST OF THE 



together, nor do they ever seem to trespass on each other's 

 domains. These Pigeons are gregarious, and strictly frugivorous. 

 It is astonishing how they can swallow the larger fruits which 

 I have found in their stomachs whole. A male measured— 



"Length, 12*8; expanse, 23; tail, from vent, 4" 9; wing, 

 7'5 j bill, from gape, I/O; tarsus 1*0. 



" The iris was blue, with an outer circle of pink ; eyelids, grey ; 

 soft part of bill, greenish ; corneous portion, pale bluish white ; 

 feet, orange yellow ; claws, bluish." 



776.— Osmotreron Phayrei, Blyth. 



This species can never be confounded with any of the others 

 of this genus which occur within our limits. 



The subjoined rough diagnostical table of all our species may 

 be useful : — 



Males with 

 orange on | 

 the breast. 



II. 



Males with- 

 out orange -j 

 on the 

 breast. 



Strongly mark- 

 ed. 



B. Faint 



Lower tail co- 

 verts bay or 

 chestnut in 

 males,mingled 

 green, & white 

 in females. 



Lower tail co- 

 verts alike in 

 both sexes, 

 similar to 

 those of fe- 

 male of pre 

 ceding species 



Entire head 

 above and below, 

 grey. 



, Forehead and 

 crown, green; oc- 

 ciput and nape, 

 grey. 



. Forehead.crown, 

 and occiput, deep 

 grey; bill, small. 



, Forehead and 

 crown, pale grey; 

 occiput, scarcely 

 tinged greyish. 



, Forehead, crown, 

 and occiput, pale 

 French grey; bill, 

 large. 



, Forehead, chin, 

 and throat, 

 bright yellowish 

 green ; occiput, 

 only, grey. 



No red man- 

 tle in male. 



Ditto 



Red mantle 

 in male. 



Ditto 



Ditto 



Ditto 



'. viridis, Scop. 

 (Tenasserim). 



!. bicincta, 

 Jerd. 



'. Phayrei, Bly. 

 (Burmah.) 



'. malabarica, 

 Jerd. 



O. chloroptera, 

 Bly. ( Anda- 

 mans and Ni- 

 cobars.) 



O. pompadora, 

 Gm. (Ceylon, 

 Southern 

 India.) 



I have only to add to this that I have seen no second species, 

 either from Ceylon or Southern India, which could stand as 

 jlavogularis, Blyth, as distinct from pompadora, Gm. If Jiavo- 

 gnlaris be decided to be distinct, then pompadora does not, I 

 think, occur in Ceylon ; but pompadora, we know, was described 

 from the drawing of a Ceylon bird, and though Mr. Gray 



