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mandibles ; legs also vermilion ; irides deep red-brown, with a blue 

 inner circle ; orbital skin bright green. 



Length lOf by 17 inches ; closed wing 5|- inches. 

 Inhabits the central and lower hilly regions of Nepal, and more 

 abundantly those of Assam, and Arracan, spreading southwards to 

 the Tenasserim Provinces and Malayan Peninsula. It also occurs, 

 says Mr. Blyth, in the hilly districts of Bengal, but rarely strays 

 into the plains, though specimens are occasionally met with even 

 near Calcutta. 



194. OSMOTRERON VIRIDIS. 



Columba viridis, Scopoli, Del. Flor. et Faun. Insub. p. 94(1786); 

 PI. Enl. 138; Sonn. Voy. t. 64, 65. 



Columba vernans, Gmel. Syst. Nat. i. p. 789 (1788); Horsfield, 

 Raffles. 



Treron vernans, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xiv. p. 851 ; Mosley et 

 Dillwyn, Nat. Hist. Labuan, p. 30. 



Osmotreron vernans, Bonap. C. G. Av. ii. p. 12. 



Col. purpurea, Gmel. (Brown's 111. pi. 18). 



Kate J, Jowan 5, Java (Horsf.). 



PooNAi Crochi, Malays (Eyton). 



PouYE, Malays (Blyth). 



Malacca and Pinang. Common. 



195. Osmotreron olax. 



S Columba olax, Temm. PI. Col. 241 ; Knip, et Prev. Pig. t. 12. 

 Osmotreron olax, Bonap. C. G. Av. ii. p. 15. 

 Semboan, Malays. 

 Malacca. 



Male. The whole head, nape, throat, flanks, rump, and upper 

 tail-coverts ash-colour, palest on the forehead and throat ; mantle 

 very dark marroon ; wings black, the larger coverts margined with 

 yellow ; tail ashy-black, each feather, except the two medial, with a 

 pale tip ; breast with a buff-orange patch, passing to green along the 

 middle of the abdomen ; tarsal plumes, vent, and under tail-coverts 

 dark cinnamon, mingled on the former with ashy. 



Female. Differs in having the forehead and crown only ash 

 coloured ; the upper parts being dark green, and the medial rectrices 

 above wholly green, with the two next also greenish basally along 

 the outer web ; throat pale ashy, passing to yellowish-green on the 

 breast and middle of abdomen, the sides of the latter, below the 

 ashy flanks, being dark green ; tarsal plumes, vent, and under tail- 

 coverts cinnamon-white, mingled on the two former with dark green, 

 the latter dusky along the shafts. 



Length about 8 inches, of wing 5 inches, tail 3 inches. 



196. Ramphiculus jambtj. 



Columba jambu, Gmel. S. N. i. p. 784 (1788) ; Temm. Pig. t. 27, 

 28; Raffles, Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 316. 

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