treronin^:. 447 



inner web of the third primary distinctly sinuated ; feet 

 yellow. 



This group differs from the other Indian ones by its larger size, 

 more massive form, yellow feet, and the sexes very closely re- 

 semble each other. There are two nearly allied races in India, 

 and a third in Burmah. 



772. Crocopns Plioenieopterus, Latham. 



Columba, apud Latham — C. militaris, Temminck — C. 'Hard- 

 wicldi, Gray — Gould, Cent. Him. Birds, pi. 58 — Blyth, Gat. 

 1384 — Hurrial, H. — -Hurril of some. 



The Bengal Green Pigeon. 



Descr. — Top of the head, and the 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 fore- 

 head ; 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 maronne, with white tips, inclining to greenish in the 

 female. 



Bill whitish ; feet deep yellow ; irides carmine, with an outer 

 circle of smalt blue. Length 12 J inches; extent 22 ; wing 7i; 

 tail 5 ; bill at front \^. 



This Green Pigeon is found over all Bengal and Upper India, 



as far as the Dehra Doon, and extending eastward into Assam, 



Sylhet, and Tippera. It extends south as far as the Nerbudda, 



■ and I have killed it at Saugor, but there the next species is 



perhaps equally common. Tickell found it all through Chota 



