(8) OSMOTRERON FULVICOLLIS (Wagl.). 



THE CDWAMON-HEADED GREEN PIGEON. 



(Plate 2.) 



ColumJja Julvicollis Wagl., Sys. Av. sp. 8 (1827). 



Osmotreron fulvicollis Hume, Str. Feath., IV p. 224 ; id., Cat. no. 776, bis ; 



Hume and Dav., Str. Feath., VI p. 413 ; Gates, B. Burma, II p. 311 ; 



Hume, Str. Feath., VIII pp. 67 and 109; Salvadori, Cat. B.M., XXI 



p. 52 ; Blanf., Avi. Brit. I., IV p. 10 ; Sharpe, Hand-List, I p. 53 ; 



Butler, J.B.N.H.S., XII p. 772 ; Harington, B. Burma, p. 117. 

 Trerrni fulvicollis Blyth, Cat. B.M.A.S.B., p. 339 ; Everett, J.S.B.A.S., p. 196 



(part). 



Vernacular Names. None recorded. 



Description. — Adult male. Head, neck, and upper-breast cinnamon; 

 above darker and tinged with purple, below paler and more yellow, changing 

 gradually to orange-ochre on the lower-breast. Interscapulars, scapulars, 

 back, and lesser wing-coverts purple-maroon ; rump slate changing into 

 olive-green on the upper tail-coverts. Central tail-feathers above dull olive- 

 green, the others olive-grey with a pure grey terminal band and a subterminal 

 black one. Abdomen mixed yello'wish-green and grey, varying very greatly 

 in their proportions in difiEerent iadividuals ; flanks dark dove-grey, becoming 

 deep slate-grey posteriorly ; tibial plumes and vent bright yellow, much 

 mixed with slate ; under tail-coverts dull cinnamon, the longer often with 

 green centres. Under aspect of tail black with grey tip. Primaries black, 

 very narrowly margined on the outer webs and on the terminal quarter of 

 the inner webs with yellowish-white ; winglet, secondaries, greater and 

 median coverts black with yellow margins, broadest on the inner secondaries ; 

 innermost secondaries glossed -with olive-green ; under wing-coverts and 

 axUlaries french-grey. 



Colours of soft parts. " Legs and feet purplish pink, claws white, lower 

 mandible to angle of gonys and upper mandible to just beyond nostril deep 

 red, rest of bill dead white, strongly tinged with greenish blue. Iris buffy 

 pink ; naked space round eye plumbeous green " (Davison). The edges of 

 the iris are orange. 



Measurements. " Length about 10.5 ; tail 3.6 ; wing 6 ; tarsus .8 ; 

 bill from gape .8 " (Blanford). 



The series I have examined have wings varying between 5.85 in. 

 ( = 148.5 mm.) and 5.40 ( = 136.2 mm.), and average 5.65 in. ( = 143.5 mm.). 



Adult female. Has the cinnamon and maroon of the upper-parts replaced 

 by dull olive-green and below by pale yellowish-green, more or less mixed 

 with grey on the abdomen. The crown from the fore-head to the nape is 

 grey, showing in good contrast to the greenish supercilia. The chin in some 



