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which bear fruity and going about in flocks. In India it breeds from April 
to July (and it will probably be found breeding in Burmab about the 
same time)^ constructing a nest of twigs on the outer branches of trees^ 
and laying two eggs. 
664. SPHENOCEECUS APICICAUDA. 
THE PINTAILED GREEN PIGEON. 
Treron apicauda, Hodgs. J. A. 8. B. xiv. p. 854. Sphenocercus apicaudus, 
Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 454; Wcdd. in Bl. B. Burm. p. 144 ; IIu7ne ^ Dav. S. F. vi. 
p. 415 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 109. 
Description. — Male, General colour green_, tinged with yellow on the 
crown_, rump, upper tail-coverts and lower plumage breast tinged with 
rufous ; under tail-coverts cinnamon, edged with whitish ; primaries and 
secondaries blackish,, very narrowly margined with yellow ; median and 
greater coverts and tertiaries more broadly edged with yellow on the outer 
websj central tail-feathers green at base, ashy on the remainder, the 
others ashy with a broad blackish band across the middle. 
The female merely differs in wanting the rufous tinge on the breast. 
Legs bright crimson-pink ; bill pale blue, horny portion whitish ; facial 
skin pale blue ; irides, inner ring bright ultramarine blue, outer ring buffy 
pink. (Davison.) 
Length 16 inches, tail 8, wing 6'2, tarsus '9, bill from gape 1. The 
female is rather smaller, and has the tail shortej*. 
The Pintailed Green Pigeon was sent to me by Mr. de Wet from the 
hills east of Tonghoo ; and Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay procured it in the same 
locality. Mr. Davison met with it in Tenasserim as far south as Mooleyit 
mountain. 
It is found in the hill-tracts of Eastern Bengal, and along the Himalayas 
from Assam to Nipal. 
There is very little on record about this Pigeon ; but its habits do not 
probably differ in any respect from those of the preceding. 
S. korthalsi, which occurs in Cochin China, is not unlikely to be met 
with in Tenasserim. It has the middle tail-feathers of great length; and 
it is green, with the mantle maroon and the breast orange. 
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