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its habits are remarkably confiding and familiar, whence the specific 

 name. 



Osmoteeeon Phateei, nobis, n. s. : Treron maldbaricus apucl nos, 

 passim. Distinguished from Osm. malabaeictts (verus) by having the' 

 entire cap ash-coloured in both sexes, and the male, by having a large 

 ochreous patch on the breast. Common in Asam, Sylhet, Arakan, 

 Pegu, Martaban, and rare in Lower Bengal. It is the only species of 

 the group which I observed in the forests of the Yunzalin' district, 

 Upper Martaban, where exceedingly abundant. At Moulmein I 

 obtained the Osm. bicinctus, (Jerdon). 



(The following kindred races have to be recognised,) 



Osm. malabaeictts, (Jerdon), III. Ind. Orn. ; Vinago aromatica et 

 V. affinis, Jerdon, Catal. Has the forehead whitish -grey, and no 

 defined ash-coloured cap, though a tinge of that colour on the 

 crown. Throat and front of neck yellow. Malabar. N. B. The V. 

 affinis, Jerdon, seems rather to accord with the female of Osm. 

 Phateei ; but the latter race can hardly occur in Malabar. 



Osm. FLAyoGFUiiABis, nobis, J. A. 8. XXVI, 225 ; Vinago aroma- 

 tica apud Selby, Jardine's Nat. Libr., ' Pigeons,' p. 97 ; V. aromatica 

 var., Jerdon, Catal. Distinguished by its yellow forehead as well as 

 throat, and by having the lower tail-coverts of the male white-tipped 

 green, as in the female, and as in both sexes of Osm. chloeoptera, 

 nobis, of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands ; whereas in the other 

 species the lower tail-coverts of the male are of a dark cinnamon- 

 colour. Hab. Malabar and Ceylon. 



Osm. pompadotjea ; Golumba pompadoura, Cmelin, Vide J. A. 8. 

 XXVI, 225. Ceylon.* 



* The other birds collected by Col. Phayre are— PALiEORNis JAVANICES, ITsr 



MATOENIS CHEELA, ClECES MEXANOLEECOS, MlCEASTUR BADIUS, ATHENE CUCTJj 



xoides, Upepa xongieostris, Jerdon (rufous Burmese race), Coracias affinis 

 Merops qeinticoxoe, Ceryxe redis, Megaxaima xineata, M. indica, Hemi- 



CERCES CANENTE, ChRYSOCOLAPTES SEXTANEES, TlGA INTERMEDIA, GECINES VIEI- 

 DANUS, G. OCCIPITALIS, GrACULA INTERMEDIA, MUNIA PENCTXXARIA (the Malayan 



type), Passer fxaveoxes, Euspiza aureola, Pares elavoceistatus, Sitta 



CASTANE0VENTR1S, DENDROPHILA FRONTALIS, CORYDALLA REFELA, PlPASTES 



agilis, Nemoricola indica, Gaeeelax Belangebi, G. PECTORALIS, G. 3U0NI- 

 xigee, Chatarrh^a gxlaeis, Abeoenis supeeciliaeis, Regexoides su- 

 pebcixioses, Phylloscopus indicus, Ph. aefinis, Campephaga Sykesi, Irena 

 puella, peeicrocotus speciosus, p. peeegeines, chibia hottentota, 



EdOXIES PARADISEUS, DlCEERES LONGICAEDATUS, CHAPTIA iENEA, Artamus 

 PUSCUS, HlRUNDA RESTICA, TCHITREA AEFINIS, MyIAGEA AZUEEA, CrYPTOLOPHA 

 POIOCEPHAXA, CEINIGEE FLAVEOLES, PYCNONOTES IXEMOEEHOES, P. JOCOSES, 

 P, MELANOCEPHALES, PHYLIOENIS AUEIFEONS, PH. COCHIKCEINENSIS, lOEA 



