(i5) SPHENOCERCUS SPHENURA. 

 THE WEDGE-TAILED GREEN PIGEON. 



Vinago sphenura Vig., P.Z.S. (1831), p. 173. 



Vinago cantillans Blyth, J.A.S.B., p. 166 (1843). 



Treron sphenura id. ib., XIV pt. 2 p. 853 ; Seebohm, B. Jap. Emp., p. 163. 



Treron cantillans Blyth, J.A.S.B., XIV pt. 2 p. 854. 



Sphenocercm cantillans id., Cat. B.M.A.S.B., p. 230. 



Sphenocercus sphenurm Jerdon, B.I., III p. 453; Stoliczka, J.A.S.B., 

 XXVII pt. 2 p. 65; Godw.-Aus., ib., XXXIX pt. 2 p. 3 ; id. ib., 

 XLV pt. 2 p. 203 ; Hume and Hen., Lah. to Yark., p. 270 ; Hume, Nests 

 and Eggs, p. 494 ; Hume and Gates, Str. Peath., Ill p. 163 ; Wald., in 

 Blyth's B. Burma, p. 144; Hume and Da v., Str. Feath., VI p. 415; 

 Hume, ib., VHI p. 109 ; id., Cat. no. 778 ; SouUy, Str. Feath., VIII 

 p. 339; dates, B. Burma, II p. 304; Hume, Str. Feath., XI p. 292; 

 Gates, in Hume's Nests and Eggs, II p. 377 ; Salvadori, Cat. B.M., 

 XXI p. 8 ; Blanf., Avi. Brit. I., Ill p. 17 ; Sharpe, Hand-List, p. 52 ; 

 Gates, Cat. Eggs B.M., I p. 80 ; Stuart Baker, J.B.N.H.S., X p. 364 ; 

 Finn, ib., XIV p. 577 ; Rattray, ib., XVI p. 663 ; Ward, ib., XVH 

 p. 943 ; Stuart Baker, ib., p. 971 ; Magrath, ib., XIX p. 155 ; Cook, 

 ib., XXI p. 674 ; Venning, ib., p. 631. 



Sphenocercus minor Brooks, Str. Feath., Ill p. 255. 



Vernacular Names. KoUa, Eokila, Hin. ; Kahu, Lepcha ; Gnu, 

 Burmese ; Haintha, Bor Haintha, Assamese ; Daorep gadeba, Cachari ; 

 Kainal, Paharee (Simla). 



Description. — Adult male. Head and neck yellowish-green, the crown 

 tinged with orange-rufous ; the green of the hind-neck passing into olive-grey 

 on the upper-back, and from that again into maroon on the scapulars, inter- 

 scapulars, back, and lesser wing-coverts ; lower-back, rump, upper tail-coverts 

 and remaining wing-coverts and innermost secondaries olive-green, the 

 median wing-coverts in old birds often more or less maroon or else edged 

 with this colour, and the greater coverts narrowly edged with yellow on the 

 outer webs ; quills black, or dark blackish-grey, the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th primaries 

 very finely margined yellow, the secondaries changing from black to green 

 until the innermost are all of this colour ; the outer ones with fine yellow 

 margins to the outer webs on their terminal halves. Central rectrices the 

 same green as the back, the outermost dark grey washed with green and with 

 a broad subtermiaal band of very dark grey, whilst the intermediate feathers 

 grade from the green of the central ones to the grey of the outermost. Chin 

 and throat yellow, breast washed with orange-pink ; lower-breast and abdomen 

 greenish-yellow ; the flanks and tibial plumes dark green with broad yellow 

 margins ; vent pale yellow ; short outer tail-coverts yellow and green, the 

 longer pale dull cinnamon with dull narrow green centres and shafts. Under 

 wing-coverts, quills, and axillaries dark dove-grey, the latter more or less 

 mixed with green. 



