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Northern Portion of the Malay Peninsula. 
This handsome Green Pigeon is very distinct from any 
species hitherto described, being most closely allied to S. oxy - 
urus (Temm.) from the mountains of Sumatra, with which 
it agrees in having the bare space round the eye extending 
to the base of the bill. This character does not occur in any 
other member of the genus except in S. apicicauda , these 
two being also the only species that have sharply pointed 
tail-feathers. 
From S. oxyurus the present form differs in having the 
wing-coverts edged with yellow, from S. apicicauda by its 
less acuminate tail-feathers, much darker coloration, and 
the presence of maroon shoulder-patches in the male, and 
from both species by its yellow and green, not cinnamon or 
chestnut, under tail-coverts. From S. robinsoni Grant, the 
other Peninsula species, it is at once separated by its pointed 
tail and naked lores, and from every species of the genus by 
its pure white belly. 
Since the description of this fine species three more 
specimens, two adult males and a female, have been collected 
by our Dyaks in the same locality as the type, Semangko 
Pass, Selangor Pahang-border, about 2700 ft., where we have 
frequently seen the bird, but under conditions that generally 
rendered it impossible to obtain it.] 
> 4. Butreron capellii. 
Butreron capellei (Temm.) ; Salvad. Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. 
xxi. p. 32 (1893) ; Bobinson, p. 168. 
Lay Song Hong, Interior of Trang, January 1910. 
This large Green Pigeon, though fairly common in the 
Peninsula, is not so well known as the species of Osmotreron , 
and does not afford the same amount of sport. It occurs in 
the interior of the country, nearly always in very high forest, 
and feeds on very lofty trees, so that it is generally rather 
difficult to get. 
It is usually met with in very large flocks, and on one 
occasion, near Selama in North Perak, we came across one 
that at the lowest estimate must have numbered two or three 
hundred individuals. 
