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BIRDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 
The Pink-necked Green Pigeon occurs in the south of Tenasserim, from 
Mergui down to Malewoon. 
It extends down the Malay peninsula and eastwards to Cochin China ; 
and it is found in Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Celebes and the Philippine 
Islands. 
Lieutenant Kelham found this species breeding at Perak in the Malay 
peninsula in March, on bushes in swampy valleys, the nest being from 
six to ten feet from the ground. 
669. OSMOTRERON PHAYRII. 
PHAYRE^S GREEN PIGEON. 
Osmotreron phayrii, Bl. J. A. S. B. xxxi. p. 344 ; Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 451 ; Hume, 
S. F. iii. p. 162 ; Bl. B. Burm. p. 144 ; Hume 8f Dav. S. F. vi. p. 412 ; Hume, 
S. F. viii. p. 109 ; Bingham, S. F. ix. p. 194 ; Oates, S. F. x. p. 235. 
Description. — Male. Forehead, crown and nape ashy ; neck, upper back, 
sides of neck and sides of the head green ; lower back, scapulars, lesser 
wing-coverts and the greater ones next the body deep maroon ; rump and 
upper tail-coverts green ; median and greater wing-coverts blackish, broadly 
edged with bright yellow ; quills black, narrowly margined on the outer 
web with yellow, tertiaries broadly edged with the same; centre tail- 
feathers green, the others green at base with a broad ashy tip and a black 
bar in front of the ashy, the black bar and ashy tip obsolete on the pair next 
the centrals and getting more pronounced towards the outer part of the 
tail ; chin and throat yellowish ; remainder of lower plumage green, the 
breast tinged with orange, the sides of the body with ashy, and the feathers 
of the flanks and legs with all but the tips yellow ; under tail-coverts 
cinnamon ; under wing-coverts and axillaries ashy. 
The female has the maroon upper plumage of the male replaced by 
green ; there is no orange on the breast ; and the under tail- coverts are 
mingled green, ashy and white. 
Legs lake-red ; irides blue, with an outer circle of pink ; eyelids plum- 
beous ; bill bluish, the base darker. 
Length 11*5 inches, tail 4, wing 6*3, tarsus '9, bill from gape 1. The 
female is of the same size. 
Phayre^s Green Pigeon occurs plentifully in all the hill-tracts of the 
Province as far south as Tavoy, below which place Mr. Davison does not 
appear to have observed it. 
It extends to the east as far as Cochin China, and north to Assam and 
Lower Bengal. 
