Genus DENDEOTRERON. 



The Genus Dendrotreron contains two species of Pigeon, which 

 both Sharpe and Salvadori include in the genus Columba : but it forms, 

 as a matter of fact, a sort of connecting link between the Wood-Pigeons 

 of the genera Palumbus and Alsocomus, and the Rock-Pigeons of the 

 genus Columba, and is really quite as close, both in structure and habits, 

 to Palumbus as it is to the last-mentioned. I therefore, in agreement 

 with Blanford, retain the genus as a convenient one. 



In type of coloration, Dendrotreron is sui generis ; for although 

 it has not the barred wings of the Rock-Pigeons, neither has it the 

 barred tail of the Wood-Pigeons. In length also this member is 

 intermediate between the short tail of the former and the longer tail 

 of the latter birds. So also the feet and legs are intermediate between 

 the two, the feet being broader and more suited to its arboreal habits, 

 whilst the tarsi are partially feathered. 



Our Indian bird, Dendrotreron hodgsoni, is curiously like an African 

 form, Dendrotreron arquatrix, which differs principally in having a purple 

 fore-head, but which is in the rest of its coloration very close indeed 

 to hodgsoni. 



