Toria nipalensis Hodgson, As. Research (1836), 19, 164, pl. 9.
Treron nipalensis Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1893), 21,
34; Sharpe, Hand-List (1899), 1, 53; Oates, Cat. Birds' Eggs
(1901), 1, 82; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 9.
Treron nasica Steere, List Birds and Mams. Steere Exp. (1890), 24.
Mindoro (Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester); Palawan (Steere,
Everett, Whitehead, Platen, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester,
Celestino, White). Nepal to Burma, Malay Peninsula, Siam, Cochin
China, Tenasserim, Borneo.
Adult male.--Crown ashy, forehead lighter; face and neck dark gray,
the latter followed by a narrow line of ashy gray; mantle, including
lesser wing-coverts, dark chestnut; lower back, rump, and tail-coverts
dark green; under parts yellowish green, breast more yellowish; thighs
and flanks darker and greener, mixed with white; under tail-coverts
cinnamon; wings black; median and greater wing-coverts and secondaries
edged with yellow; some of the inner secondaries tipped with green;
tail above, ashy gray with a black band some distance from the tip,
but the median rectrices green and the next two partly green. "Legs
and feet vary from lake-pink to coral-red; orbital skin pea-green;
the irides vary from bright orange to yellowish red, with an inner,
deep-blue ring more or less apparent; gape and base of upper mandible
to nostril bright red; rest of bill pale yellowish, or greenish white,
tipped with greenish." (Hume.) Two males from Palawan measure: Length,
250, 260; wing, 132, 136; tail, 89, 87; culmen from base, 20, 21;
tarsus, 19.8, 20.
Adult female.--Differs from the male in having the mantle dark green
like lower back; under tail-coverts buffy white with large pointed
shaft-marks of dark green. A female from Palawan measures: Length,
250; wing, 130; tail, 84; culmen from base, 20; tarsus, 20.
"Two females measure: Length, 210; culmen, 20; wing, 130; tail, 74;
tarsus, 20; middle toe with claw, 29. Iris with outer orange and inner
brown ring; bill yellow, red at base of lower mandible." (Bourns and
Worcester MS.)
Genus SPHENOCERCUS Gray, 1840.
This genus resembles Osmotreron, but it has a longer and more strongly
graduated tail and the hard portion of the upper mandible is shorter.