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collection, and shows no marks of having been in confinement; on 

 the contrary, it appears to have been shot in the wings. 



The Chinese Red Dove is a resident in South China and Formosa, 

 the Philippine Islands, and the Burma Peninsula, but is replaced in 

 India by a very nearly allied species, Turtur tranquebaricus. 



145. TREEON SIEBOLDI. 



(JAPANESE GEEEN PIGEON.) 



Columha sieboldi, T emminck, Planches Colorizes, no. 549 (1835). 



The Japanese Green Pigeott. diflfers from its ally on the Loo-Choo 

 Islands in the great extent of white on its belly, and in the yellowness 

 of the green on its head and breast. 



Figures : Temminck and Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, Aves, pi. 60 d. 



The Japanese Green Pigeon is peculiar to Japan. It is a summer 

 visitor to Yezzo, but in Southern Japan it is a resident. There is an 

 example in the Swinhoe collection from Hakodadi (Whitely, Ibis, 

 1867, p. 304), and there are six examples in the Pryer collection 

 from Yokohama. Mr. Ringer has obtained it at Nagasaki (Blakiston, 

 Am. List Birds Japan, p. 44), whence he has sent an example to the 

 Norwich Museum. 



It is tolerably abundant on Fuji-yama, but exceedingly shy, and 

 is very fond of feeding on wild cherries (Jouy, Proc. United States 

 Nat. Mus. 1883, p. 314) . In Yezzo it prefers the wooded bluffs 

 near the sea, and frequently alights on the sandy shore (Blakiston 

 and Pryer, Trans. As. Soc. Japan, 1882, p. 129). It has a long and 

 varied coo. 



The Japanese Green Pigeon is nearest related to Treron sotorid 

 from Formosa. It is doubtful whether the females of the two races 

 are separable, but the males differ slightly in the colour of the mantle. 

 In T. sieboldi the vinous red of the wing-coverts is distinctly traceable 

 across the mantle, but in T. sororia the green of the mantle scarcely 

 differs from that of the lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts. 

 In both races the tail is much graduated, the outer feathers being 

 an inch shorter than the centre ones. These two Pigeons are, of 

 course, island races of a continental species, which appears to be 

 T. sphenura, a Himalayan bird ranging into Burma. This species 

 scarcely differs from its Japanese offshoots in colour; it agrees with 



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