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7. PHABOTRERON. Type 



Phapitreron, Bp. Consp. Av. ii. p. 28 (1854)* ; id. Compt. 



Rend, xxxix. p. 879 (1854) P. leucotis. 



Phapiscus, Sund. Meth. Nat. Av. Disp. Tent. p. 99 (1872) P. leucotis. 

 Pliabotreron, Wald. Tr. Zool. Soc. ix. p. 214 (1875) 



( = Phapitreron). 

 Phabisca, Salv. (?) Ibis, General Index, pp. 300, 302 (1879). 



Range. Philippine Islands. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Under tail-coverts huff or light cinnamon amethystina, p. 66. 



b. Under tail-coverts pale French-grey. 



b'. Throat and cheeks deep ruddy fulvous. 



a". Throat of a deeper colour, almost cinnamon ; 



occiput dull amethystine rufous leucotis, p. 67. 



b" . Throat rufous vinaceous ; occiput bright 



coppery amethystine occipitalis, p. 68. 



b'. Throat and cheeks pale fulvous. 



c" . Forehead greyish ; occiput metallic green, 



seldom with an amethystine tinge ; light 



streak under the eyes changing into fulvous 



on the ear-coverts niyrorum, p. 68. 



d". Forehead pale fulvous, with a slight rufous 



tinge ; occiput always with an amethystine 



tinge ; light streak under the eyes white, 



also on the ear-coverts brevirostris, p. 69. 



1. Pliabotreron amethystina. 



Phapitreron amethystina, Bp. Consp. Av. ii. p. 28 (1854) ; id. Compt. 

 Bend. xl. pp. 214, 217, n. 64 (1855) ; id. Coup d'ceil Ordre Pig. 

 pp. 52, 55, n. 64 (1855); Bchnb. Tauben, i. p. 91 (1862); G. -ft. 

 Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 246, n. 9433 (1870) ; Wald. Tr. Zool. Soc. ix. 

 p. 251 (1875) ; Elliot, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 505 ; Tiveedd. Orn. Works, 

 pp. 378, 412, pi. xxxiv. f. 2 (1881). 



Phaps amethvstina, G. B. Gr. List B. Brit. Mus. Columbre, p. 62 

 (1856); Gieb. Thes. Orn. iii. p. 89 (1877). 



Ptilonopus amethystina, Wall. Ibis, 1865, pp. 382, 397; id. J.f. O. 

 1866, p. 279. 



Phaps (Phapitreron) amethystina, Mart. J.f. 0. 1866, p. 24. 



Chloroenas amethystina, Schleg. Mus. P.-B. Columbae, p. 80 (1873). 



Pliabotreron amethystina, Wald. Tr. Zool. Soc. ix. p. 214, pi. xxxiv. 

 f. 2 (Luzon) (1875); Sharpe, Tr. Linn. Soc, Zool. i. p. 353 

 (1876); Tweedd. P. Z. S. 1877, p. 832 (N.E. Mindanao), 1878, 

 p. 113 (Dinagat), p. 381 (Pauaon) ; id. Orn. Works, pp. 378, 409, 

 558, 572, 604 (1881); Wardl. Bams. ibid. p. 659 (1881) ; Steere, 

 List Philipp. Birds, p. 24 (Samar, Leyte) (1890). 



Adult. Brown ; hind neck of a beautiful amethystine colour ; 



* Quid Dendrcphaps, Blyth (ubi ?), genus Trcronidarum alis breviesunis 

 (Bp. Consp. Av. ii. p. 28). 



