(4) OSMOTRERON POMPADORA PHAYREI (Blyth). 



THE ASHY-HEADED GREEN PIGEON. 

 (feontispiecb.) 



Treron malabarica (part) Blyth, J.A.S.B., XIV p. 852 (1845) ; id., Cat. R.A.S.B., 

 p. 229. 



Oamotreron pTiayrei Blyth, J.A.S.B., XXI p. 344 (1862); Jerdon, B.I., III p. 451 ; 

 Blyth and Wald., B. Burma, p. 144 ; Godw.-Aus., J.A.S.B., XXXIX 

 pt. 2 p. iii; id. ib., XLV pt. 2 p. 83 ; Hume, Str. Peath., Ill p. 162 ; 

 Inglis, ib., V p. 39 ; Hume and Dav., ib., VI p. 412 ; Hume, Cat. no. 776 ; 

 id., Str. Feath., VIII p. 109 ; Bingham, Str. Feath., IX p. 194 ; Gates, 

 B. Burma, II p. 310 ; id., Hume's Nests and Eggs, 2nd ed., 11., p. 376 ; 

 Hume, Str. Feath., X p. 235 ; id. ib., XI p. 291 ; Salvadori, Cat. B.M., 

 XXI p. 43 ; Blanf., Avi. Brit. I., IV p. 8; Sharp, Hand-List, I p. 54 ; 

 Gates, Cat. Eggs B.M., I p. 52 ; Harington, B. Burma, p. 63 ; Stuart 

 Baker, J.B.N.H.S., X p. 364 ; Inglis, ib., XI p. 457 ; Stuart Baker, ib., 

 XVII p. 970 ; Hears, ib., XVIII p. 86 ; Harington, ib., XIX p. 365. 



Vernacular Names. Daorep, Cachari ; Inruigum, Naga. ; Vohpolip, 

 Kuki ; Chota Haitha, Assamese ; Chota Harial, Sylheti ; Ngu, Burmese ; Chota 

 Harial, Bengali. 



Description. — Adult male. Whole crown of head and nape ashy-grey, 

 the nape most pale, as a rule, and most pure in colour, the fore-head mixed 

 with green and duller. Neck behind and extreme upper -back green, fairly 

 well defined from the grey of the head and also from the chestnut-maroon 

 of the baok, scapulars, and lesser wing-coverts ; lower-back, rump, and upper 

 tail-coverts green, rather more yellowish than the neck. Guter tail-feathers 

 black, each succeeding pair becoming more greenish, until the central ones 

 are entirely of this colour and practically unicolorous with their coverts ; 

 a broad band of grey at the tips of all but the central feathers. 



Lores, sides of head and narrow superciUum green, well defined from the 

 grey of the crown and nape ; throat and fore-neck the same, but much more 

 yellow ; upper-breast a creamy -orange, occasionally tinged with vinous or 

 pink ; lower-breast, abdomen, and flanks greenish, deepening in colour on the 

 lower-flanks and thigh -coverts which are splashed with yellow; feathers 

 of the vent and under tail-coverts cinnamon, the former sometimes a little 

 the paler of the two and with yellowish borders. Median and greater wing- 

 coverts black, fading to grey on the inside of the webs, the former mth broad 

 and the latter with narrow borders of yellow on the outer-webs ; quills black 

 inclining to grey on the inside of the inner webs, the primaries with narrow 

 yellowish white margins and the secondaries with yellow borders, becoming 

 very broad on the innermost which are also often much suffused with the 

 same tint of maroon as that of the scapulars. Axillaries and imder wing- 

 coverts grey, with sometimes a tinge of green. 



