(i) CROCOPUS PHOENICOPTERUS PHOENICOPTERUS. 

 THE BENGAL GREEN PIGEON. 



Columla phoenicoptera Lath., Lid. Orn., 11 p. 597 (1790). 



Columba militaris (part) Temm., Pig., pt. i (1808). 



Columba hardioicMi Gray, in Griff. An. Kingd., VIII (1829). 



Treron phoenicoptera Blyth, J.A.S.B., XIV p. 849 ; id.. Cat. B.M., p. 229 ; 

 Gray, Cat. Hodg. Coll. B.M., 2nd ed. p. 66. 



Crocopus phoenicopterus Jerdon, B.I., III p. 447 ; Godw.-Aus., J.A.S.B., 

 XXXIX pt. n p. 272 ; Str. Peath., I p. 390 ; Ball, ib., II p. 432 ; Hume, 

 Nests and Eggs, p. 491 ; id., Cat. no. 772 ; id., Str. Feath., IV p. 2 ; 

 Cripps, ib., VII p. 296 ; Scully, ib., VIII p. 339 ; Gates, in Hume's Nests 

 and Eggs, 2nd ed., II p. 370 ; Salvadori, Cat. B.M., XXI p. 20 ; Blanf., 

 Avi. Brit. I., IV p. 5 ; Sharpe, Hand-List Birds, I p. 153 ; Gates, Cat. 

 Eggs B.M., I p. 81 ; Stuart Baker, J.B.N.H.S., X p. 63 ; id. ib., XIII 

 p. 568 ; Inglis, ib., XIV p. 561 ; Stuart Baker, ib., XVII p. 970. 



Vernacular Names. Harial H. ; Haitha or Bor Haitha, Assamese ; 

 Daorep gadeba, Cachari ; Inruigu, Naga. 



Description. — Adult male. Pore-head as far back as the eye, lores, chin, 

 and throat greenish-yeUow ; from fore-head to the nape and including the 

 upper part of cheeks and ear-coverts ash-grey, changing on the neck to bright 

 chrome, following which comes a band of grey, purer and brighter than the 

 crown. Remainder of the upper -plumage including wing-coverts and inner- 

 most secondaries oUve-green, with a strong tinge of yellow ; upper tail-coverts 

 the same but sometimes tinged with grey. Tail above, grey with a broad 

 basal band of olive-yeUow, contrasting strongly with the rest of the tail though 

 not with the upper taU-coverts ; the outermost tail-feathers hardly show 

 this band on the outer-web, and on the inner-web each pair of feathers has 

 the yellow decreasing in extent towards the outermost. Below, the rather 

 greenish-yellow of the throat runs into a purer king's-yellow on the breast ; 

 lower-breast, flanks, and abdomen grey ; the tibial feathers, the centre of the 

 abdomen, and patches about the vent yellow, and the thighs and long flank- 

 feathers covering them, with deep green-grey centres and pale whitish fringes ; 

 under tail-coverts deep purple-chestnut, with broad whitish bands at the 

 end of each feather ; under aspect of tail grey with a broad black band at 

 base nearly concealed by the tail-coverts. 



A band of hlac-purple on the innermost smaller wing-coverts ; greater 

 wing-coverts and secondaries boldly edged with pale yellow, forming a bar 

 on the closed wing, running from near the edge of the shoulder to the end of 

 the longest secondary ; primaries dark brown, edged with yellow, the inner 

 changing to the same colour as the back ; bastard-wing black and the greater- 

 coverts next the yellow edging, dark brown. 



Bill, very pale bluish- or greenish-white, the cere more strongly tinged 

 with this colour than the rest of the upper mandible ; lower mandible sometimes 



