20 INDIAN PIGEONS AND DOVES 



it from the Pegu Hills, nor from those of Arracan. It is essentially 

 a bird of the plains, as Osmotreron phayrei is of the hills." Davison, 

 in the fifth volume of the same work, records that : " It has all the 

 habits of the other Green Pigeons, and like them, is very noisy and 

 quarrelsome when feeding . . . the note is similar to that of Treron 

 nepalensis ; it is broader and more rolling." 



Harington, describiag its occurrence in the dry zone in Upper 

 Burma, writes to me : "Its well-known whistling caU can generally 

 be heard round almost every village and Phonygi Kyoung during the 

 early morning, so that one can always be sure of bagging one or two of 

 these Green Pigeons when needed for the pot. It is, again, extremely 

 plentiful in the open vaUeys of the Shan States, at an elevation of 

 some 2,000 ft., being very partial to the ficus and pepul trees which 

 are plentiful near villages and bazaars in these parts. 



" I have never noticed them in thick or dense jungle, where their 

 place seems to be taken by 0. phayrei and bisincta, they have, however, 

 been recorded from all parts of Burma. 



" When the berries of the ficus and pepul are ripe large numbers 

 congregate, and very fair shooting can be got by finding out their line 

 of flight, as when disturbed at one set of feeding places, they generally 

 take the same route to some other favourite trees." 



