1845.] Drafts for a Fauna Indica. 849 



and, it may be added, that the sinuation of the interior web of its third 

 primary exists, but not to the same depth as in Tr. nipalensis. 



B. Typical Treron. Hurrials, with the beak moderately robust, much 

 less so than in the preceding section, its corneous portion occupying 

 the terminal half, or thereabouts. There is no bare space round 

 the eyes ; and the tail is squared. Sinuation of the third primary well 

 developed in eight species examined, and probably, therefore, through- 

 out the group. 



Tr. ph,enicoptera : Col. phcenicoptera, Latham : C. militaris, Tem. : 

 C. Hardwickii, Gray (figured in Griffith's ' Animal Kingdom,' VIII. 299) : 

 Vinago militaris, Gould's ' Century', pi. LVIII.* Green. The neck all 

 round, with the breast, bright yellowish-green, having a shade of 

 fulvous ; cap, sides of base of neck, and the abdominal region, ash- 

 grey, the belly, with generally some admixture of green, more or less 

 developed, and there is a green tinge on the forehead ; shoulder of the 

 wing lilach in the male, and a trace of the same in the female ; greater 

 wing- coverts margined with pale yellow, forming an oblique bar across 

 the wing ; terminal two-fifths of the tail, ash-grey above, albescent 

 underneath, and its medial portion blackish underneath, and deeply tinged 

 with green above ; tibial plumes (extending partly down the tarse) and 

 central abdominal feathers between the tibiae, bright yellow ; vent 

 mingled white and green ; and lower tail-coverts maronne, with white 

 tips. Beak, whitish ; the feet, deep yellow. Length twelve and a half, 

 by twenty-two inches ; and of closed wing seven inches to seven and 

 a half. 



This is one of three closely allied species, each having its peculiar 

 habitat, and it is intermediate in its colouring to the two others, — 

 namely, Tr. viridifrons, nobis, of the Tenasserim provinces, and 

 Tr. chlorigaster, nobis, of Peninsular India. Tr. viridifrons is distin- 

 guished by having the anterior half of the head, and the medial portion 

 of the tail, of the same (and as bright) yellowish-green as the breast, 

 though somewhat less fulvescent ; that of the tail being well defined, and 

 contrasting strongly both with the grey tip, and also with the grey 



* Mr. G. R. Gray identifies this bird with Col. Site. Thoma of Gmelin, to which 

 name he assigns the precedence : but I decidedly think that he is mistaken in so 

 doing.— I perceive also that in Griffith's 'Animal Kingdom,' Col. Sta>. Thoma is re- 

 ferred to militaris of Temmink; this last named author having stated that C. 8U6. 

 Thomce occurs in India. 



