Distribution in India: Resident of Western Ghats of southwestern India from Goa and northwestern Karnataka south to Kerala in India.

Description:  It has a size of 43–51 cm. It has a vinous-gray crown, with strong cheek/throat contrast, pinkish wash on ear coverts and foreneck, gray nape and upper mantle, dark brown lower mantle, and strongly ochre vent with dark spots. Both the sexes alike.

Habitat: It is found in evergreen forest and dense deciduous forest at all levels, from plains to 2,000 m, but occurs mainly in hills and mountains.

Food Habits:  It is frugivorous, feeding on a variety of fruits and berries and wild nutmegs, buds and young leaves. It also visits salt-licks.

Breeding Habits: They Breed in Mar–Aug. The breeding display-flight involves bird flapping wings rapidly, and then sweeps up vertically, before abruptly turning and diving down with spread tail, before repeating the display 2–3 times. The nest is a slight platform of twigs, placed up in a sapling or understorey tree, or tree-ferns. They lay a clutch of 1-2 egg. The incubation is done by both sexes.