84 Mearns Descriptions of Eight New Philippine Birds. 



Of the five species of Tarnix known from the Philippine Islands this one 

 is most closely related to Turnix wkiteheadi, of Luzon, from which it may 

 be distinguished by its larger size, and the general brown coloration of the 

 upperparts, which are blackish in T. whiteheadi, as well as by the absence 

 of a well defined cervical collar. 



Adult female (type and only specimen). General color of upperparts 

 walnut brown, the feathers finely banded and vermiculated with gray and 

 black ; top of head clove brown, the feathers almost imperceptibly edged 

 with gray, divided by a median stripe of isabella color extending from the 

 base of the bill to the occiput ; sides of head and neck buffy white speckled 

 with clove brown ; nape walnut brown, the feathers edged with gray ; 

 mantle walnut brown, the feathers edged with gray, and vermiculated with 

 black, gray, and traces of very pale cinnamon ; lower back, rump, and 

 upper tail-coverts clove brown, the feathers narrowly edged with gray on 

 the back and upper rump, more broadly with cinnamon on the lower 

 rump and upper tail-coverts ; tail grayish drab, the feathers perceptibly 

 cross-banded with wavy lines of dusky, edged with cinnamon on outer 

 webs, with middle pair of feathers extending seven millimeters beyond 

 the next pair; scapulars and numerals conspicuously edged externally 

 with golden buff and cinnamon ; primaries grayish drab, the two outer 

 ones edged externally with wood brown ; secondaries darker drab, edged 

 with cinnamon on the outer web ; greater wing-coverts cinnamon, drab at 

 base, with a subterminal black spot on the outer web; lesser wing-coverts 

 cinnamon-rufous, edged with buff, with a subterminal black ocellus; chin, 

 upper throat, and malar region, whitish, the last speckled with blackish 

 brown ; lower neck and upper breast clay color, bordered by a chain of 

 oval black spots, the largest three millimeters in length ; lower breast and 

 middle of belly whitish ; sides of lower neck, and sides of chest and breast, 

 chestnut mixed with black and clay color; flanks light clay color; under 

 tail-coverts darker clay color; lining of wings pale clay color and pale 

 grayish drab. Length of skin, 120 ; wing, 68 ; tail, 31 ; culmen, 11.5 ; depth 

 of bill at angle of gonys, 3.8; tarsus, 19.5. 



Muscadivora* langhornei sp. noy. 



LANGHORNE'S FRUIT-PIGEON. 



Type No. 191,877, U. S. National Museum, from West Bolod Island (off 

 Basilan), P. I., February 21, 1904. Adult male. Collected by Edgar A. 

 Mearns. (Original number, 13,358.) 



This large Fruit-Pigeon is closely related to Muscadivorapickeringi (Cassin) 

 from Mangsee Island, north of Borneo, on the west side of the Sulu Sea, of 

 which the type (No. 15,732) is in the U. S. National Museum. The size is 

 practically the same; but the color differs as follows: General coloration 

 paler. The vinous gray of the head and underparts is darker, the gray of 



*Dr. Richmond's MS. card catalogue of avian genera shows Carpophaga Selby (1835) 

 to be preoccupied by Carpophaga Billberg (1828) for a genus of Cuckoos. Pchlegel, in 

 "1864" (1872?), proposed Muscadivora as a substitute name for Carpophaga. The type, 

 therefore, remains Columba senea Linnaeus. 



