(2) CROCOPUS PHOENICOPTERUS VIRIDIFRONS (Blyth). 

 THE BURMESE GREEN PIGEON. 



(Plate 1.) 



Treron viridifrcms Blyth, J.A.S.B., XIV pt. 2 p. 849 (1845) ; id. ib., 

 XXIV p. 479 ; Godw.-Aust., ib., XXXIX p. iii. 



Crocopus viridifrons Jerdon, B.I., III p. 449 ; Hume, Str. Feath., II p. 481 ; 

 id. ib., Ill p. 161 ; Blyth and Wald., B. Burma, p. 143 ; Godw.-Aust., 

 J.A.S.B., LXIV p. 83 ; Gates, Str. Feath., V p. 163 ; Hume and Dav., 

 ib., VI p. 410 ; Hume, ib., VHI p. 109 ; Bingh., ib., IX p. 194 ; Hume 

 and Ing., ib., p. 257; Gates, ib., X p. 235; id., B. Burma, II p. 307; 

 Hume, Str. Feath., XI p. 290; Salvadori, Cat. B.M., XXI p. 28; 

 Sharpe, Hand-List, I p. 153 ; Stuart Baker, J.B.N.H.S., X p. 363. 



Grocojms pfioenicopterus (part), Blanf., Avi. Brit. I., IV p. 5 ; Harington, 

 B. Burma, p. 117 ; Gates (part). Cat. B.M., I p. 81 ; Primrose, 

 J.B.N.H.S., XIII p. 78; Macdonald, ib., XVII p. 495; Hears and 

 Gates, ib., XVIII p. 86 ; Harington, ib., XIX p. 308 ; id. ib., p. 365. 



Vernacular Names. Ngu Bom-ma-di, Burmese ; Daorep Gadeba, 

 Cachari ; Inruigu, Naga. 



Description. — Adult male. Differs from 0. ph. phoenicopterus in 

 having the yellow of the fore-head running back as far as the ba«k of the 

 crown, and generally a good deal brighter than in that bird ; the greater 

 part of the cheeks and also the major portion of the ear-coverts are of the 

 same yellowish-green. The upper tail-coverts, on the other hand, are more 

 grey than they are in phoenicopterus, and contrast strongly with the yellow 

 band on the tail. 



Colours of soft parts are the same as in the western form, and the 

 dimensions are the same. 



Adult female. Differs from the male in the same way, and to the same 

 extent as the female of C. ph. phoenicopterus differs from its male. 



Distribution. The range of this subspecies extends over northern 

 Burma and the hill-ranges of north-east Burma, south-east into Cochin 

 China, and as far south as Moulmein. To the west it extends through 

 Arrakan, Cox's Bazaar into Chittagong and the Chittagong hill-tracts. I have 

 seen no specimens from Comilla, but Sylhet birds and those from the plains 

 of Cachar are intermediate between phoenicopterus and viridifrons, most 

 birds being nearer the latter, and birds occasionally being obtained which 

 are typical viridifrons. 



Everywhere north of the Surrma Valley hill-ranges and west of the big 

 rivers running into the Bay of Bengal, only phoenicopterus is met with. 



In his Birds of Burma, Harington says that this Pigeon is common 

 from north to south everywhere except on Mount Victoria, and that it is 



