THE RUDDY GREEN PIGEON. 
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This species appears to be confined to the denser forests on the hills; and 
I do not remember to have ever met with it in the plains. There is nothing 
remarkable about its habits. 
670. OSMOTREEON FULVICOLLIS. 
THE RUDDY GREEN PIGEON. 
Columba fulvicoUis, Wagl. Si/st. Av., Columha, no. 8; Wald. Trans. Zool, Soc. ix. 
p. 213. Treron fulvicoUis, Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 288. Osmotreron fulvi- 
coUis, Hume 8f Dew. S. F. vi. p. 413 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 109. 
Description. — Male. The whole head and neck^ with the upper breast_, 
ruddy vinaceous ; lower breast the same^ but paler ; abdomen green ; sides 
of the body ashy ; vent and flanks mixed ashy green and yellow ; thighs 
bright yellow ; under tail- coverts cinnamon ; back^ scapulars and lesser 
wing-coverts maroon ; rump ashy green ; upper tail- coverts and central 
tail-feathers dull green ; the other tail-feathers green at base^ broadly tipped 
with pale ashy and with a subterminal dark bar ; median and greater wing- 
coverts, secondaries and tertiaries blackish, edged on the outer web with 
yellow ; primaries all blackish. 
The female is very similar to the female of 0. phayrii, but is considerably 
smaller. 
Legs and feet in the male purplish pink^ in the female lake-pink j claws 
dead white in both sexes ; upper mandible to just beyond nostril and lower 
mandible to angle of gonys_, in the male deep red, in the female dull red ; 
rest of bill in both sexes dead white tinged strongly with greenish blue ; 
irides in the male buffy pink_, in the female with an outer ring of pink and 
an inner one of ultramarine blue ; in both sexes the orbital skin is plum- 
beous green, the edge of the eyelid orange. (Davison.) 
Length 10*5 inches, tail 3'5, wing 5*5_, tarsus *8, bill from gape '8. The 
female is rather smaller. 
The Ruddy Green Pigeon was procured by Mr. Davison in the extreme 
south of Tenasserim,, where it appears to be rare and a migrant, visiting 
that part of the country only in December and January. 
It extends to the east as far as Cochin China ; it ranges down the Malay 
peninsula_, and occurs in Sumatra, Bangka, Borneo and the Philippine 
Islands. 
This Pigeon is probably only partially migratory, travelling from one 
part of the country to another as the fruits on which it feeds ripen. 
