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BIKDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 
Genus OSMOTEERON, Bona;p, 
667, OSMOTEERON BICINCTA. 
THE OEANGE-BREASTED GREEN PIGEON. 
Vinago bicincta, Jerd. Madr. Journ. xii. p. 13. Osmotreron bicincta, Jerd. B. 
Ind. ii. p. 449 ; Hume, Nests and Eggs, p. 493 ; Bl. 8f Wald. B. Burm. p. 144 ; 
Armstrong, >S'. F. iv. p. 337 ; Oates, S. F. v. p. 163 ; Htime Sf JDav. S. F. yi. 
p. 411; Hume, 8. F.vm. p. 109; Legge, Birds Ceylon, p. 725; Oates, 8. F. x. 
p. 235. 
Description. — Male. Forehead^ front of crown^ sides of the head and 
neck_, chin and throat yellowish green ; hinder part of crown, nape and 
hind neck ashy ; breast orange, separated from the green of the neck by a 
lilac collar ; under wing-coverts and axillaries ashy ; abdomen and vent 
greenish yellow ; sides of the body ashy ; the flanks yellow streaked with 
dark green ; under tail-coverts cinnamon ; back, rump, upper tail-coverts 
and lesser wing-coverts green ; winglet and primaries and the primary - 
coverts black ; secondaries black narrowly margined with yellow ; tertiaries 
and greater wing-coverts green, broadly edged on the outer web with 
yellow ; central tail-feathers ashy, the others darker ashy, and all the 
feathers broadly tipped with pale ashy white. 
The female is very similar, but has no lilac or orange on the breast, this 
part being of the same green as the abdomen ; the under tail-coverts are 
pale ashy white dashed with brown or dull greenish. 
Bill dull green ; iris blue with an outer red ring ; legs pink. 
Length 12 inches, tail 4*2, wing 6*3, tarsus '8, bill from gape I. The 
female is rather smaller. 
The Orange-breasted Green Pigeon is extremely common, being found 
in all portions of the Province except on the higher hills of Tenasserim. 
It occurs over the greater part of the peninsula of India and Ceylon, 
and probably in the Indo-Burmese countries ; and to the east it extends to 
Cochin China. It is said to range as far south as Malacca. 
This bird has the usual habits of the Green Pigeons, associating in flocks 
and feeding on fruit. I have found the nest in Pegu from March to May ; 
it is composed of a few twigs and placed on one of the outer branches of a 
large tree, or sometimes in a bush. 
The Pigeons of this genus have the bill of the ordinary form, similar to 
that of Crocopus (that is, with half the upper mandible corneous and half 
soft); the third primary is sinuated on the inner web; the legs are red; and 
the sexes diflPer in coloration. They may consequently be separated at once 
