ANATOMY OF BIRDS
GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION
MIGRATIONS OF BIRDS
CLASSIFICATION OF BIRDS
LIZARD-TAILED BIRD
AMERICAN TOOTHED-BIRDS
THE OSTRICHES
THE RHEAS
EMEUS AND CASSOWARIES
THE TINAMOUS
THE KIWIS
THE PENGUINS
LOONS AND GREBES
ALBATROSSES & PETRELS
STORK-LIKE BIRDS
GOOSE-LIKE BIRDS
FALCON-LIKE BIRDS
FOWL-LIKE BIRDS
CRANE-LIKE BIRDS
PLOVER-LIKE BIRDS
CUCKOO-LIKE BIRDS
THE ROLLER-LIKE BIRDS
SPARROW-LIKE BIRDS
Birds and Birding's Guide to:
Watching THE PLOVER-LIKE BIRDS
THE GULLS AND THEIR ALLIES
THE TRUE PIGEONS
The Indian Green Pigeons
(Crocopus) of the Indo-Chinese countries agree with the last in the form of the tail and the yellowish leg-feathers, but differ in having the first three primaries more or less pointed. Of the three species the Bengal Green Pigeon (C. phcenicopterus), a bird about twelve and one half inches in length, has the plumage greenish and grayish, with a well-defined green band at the base of the tail. Although found to some extent in various parts of India, it is only at home in Bengal, while the Green-fronted Pigeon (C. viridifrons), a similar but slightly larger species, is found throughout India and Cochin China, being replaced in the Indian peninsula and Ceylon by the Southern Green Pigeon (C. chlorogaster).
The Indo-Chinese countries are also the home of another group of these Pigeons (Osmotreron), numbering no less than nineteen species, which are distinguished from the others just mentioned by having the tibial feathers greenish or whitish instead of yellowish.
In the three remaining genera of the subfamily the sheath of the upper mandible reaches the feathers of the forehead. Of these Butreron, with a single species (B. capellei), is found in the Mergui Archipelago, Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo, and Java. Treron with two forms, is widely spread from the southeastern Himalayas to the Philippines ; and Phabotreron, with nine species is confined to the Philippine Islands. The latter, marked by possessing a tail of only twelve feathers, are handsome small birds under ten inches in length, with a plumage mainlyof chocolate-brown.
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