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Identifier: indianpigeonsdov00bake (find matches)
Title: Indian pigeons and doves
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Baker, E. C. Stuart (Edward Charles Stuart), 1864-1944 Grld, H. (Henrik), 1858-1940 Lodge, George Edward
Subjects: Pigeons -- India Birds -- India
Publisher: London : Witherby & Co.
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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at all, only with extreme rarity. Consequent on thisdefinitive gap in their distribution, we have a very well-defined difference inthe measurements of the two subspecies, as already shown. This appears to be one of those interesting cases in which a race of birdshas established itself, and tliriven at some distance from its parent stockwhilst the intermediate area has proved unsuitable, so that the interveningform inhabiting it has, or will very shortly have, died out. Legge went intothe question of the racial difference of this Pigeon from the Indian form, butonly compared his Ceylon specimens ^\^th those from south India, from ^\hich,as he says, they cannot be divided. Nidification. The breeding-season of this bird is variously reportedby different collectors. Layard took its nest in May, but Legge says thatit also breeds in August. Sykes took its eggs, which he very kindly sentme, near Kandy in Febniary and March, and Jenkins collected three clutchesfor me in January and February.
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THE LESSER ORANGE-BREASTED GREEN PIGEON^OSMOTRERON B. BICINCTA- \i Nat. Size—Male on left, female on right.) PLATE 3 LESSER ORANGE-BREASTED GREEN PIGEON 57 It is probably a very irregular breeder, generally building its nest duringthe months from January to March, but sometimes not until April or evenMay, and having a second brood in the months of July and September. Layard describes its nest as formed of sticks, with a slight linmg of roots,etc., placed in the fork of a tree. My own correspondents describe the nest as being of the usual character,built of small twigs, roughly interlaced, and with no lining whatsoever. It should be noted that all the gentlemen who have sent me eggs, ornotes upon the nidification of this Pigeon, agree that it is very partial tobig forest-trees as sites for its nest, and that it commonly builds them on alarge horizontal bough at a very considerable height from the ground. The eggs in my collection only differ from those of Osmotreron bisinctadomvillii

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