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ally on tho inner webs, and tho outermost also on the outer web ; 

 all three have a broad black band, extending towards the base of 

 the inner web : " iris yellow, with an outer rim of crimson ; orbital 

 region and base of the bill crimson ; bill light brown ; feet carmine " 

 (Everett). Total length about 15 inches, wing 7'3 to 7*7, tail 8, 

 bill 0-6, tarsus 0-8. 



Young. Head and lower parts cinnamon ; throat pale rufous ; 

 on the breast the grey bases of the feathers show through the 

 cinnamon edges ; upper parts deep brown ; hind neck and upper 

 mantle with fulvous and black bars ; the interscapular region has 

 the edges of the feathers very narrow pale buff ; rump and upper 

 tail-coverts deep chestnut, and minutely freckled with brown ; the 

 upper wing-coverts and the inner secondaries have broad rufous- 

 cinnamon edges. 



Adult female. Contrary to Major Wardlaw Ramsay's opinion, I 

 think that the specimens of this sex differ from the male, and re- 

 semble the young birds, from which they differ in being more uniform 

 on tho back and wings, which do not show the broad rufous- 

 cinnamon edges on the upper wing-coverts. 



Hah. Philippines and Sooloo Islands. 



This species is easily distinguished in every stage by the dark 

 chestnut-brown tail, much darker than in the allied M. phasianella 

 and 31. emiliana. 



The Palawan bird, of which I have seen tbree adult males, is shot 

 with amethyst across the breast ; this is wanting, or very little 

 apparent, in the bird from the more eastern Philippines. 



a. (J ad. sk. Taguso, Palawan, Julv. J. Whitehead, Esq. 



[P.]. 



b. Imm.sk. Palawan. — Lernpriere, Esq. [C.]. 



c. J ad. sk. Philippine Is. Cuming Coll. (Type 



of species.) 



d. 3 ad. sk. Philippine Is. (Cuming). Gould Coll. 



e. Ad. sk. Luzon, April (A. B. Tweeddale Coll. 



Meyer). 



f. cJad.sk. ~M&m\la, (Maitland-IIeriot). Tweeddale Coll. 



g. S ad. sk. Negros, March (A. B. Tweeddale Coll. (Type 



Meyer). of M. eurycerca,Tsreedd.) 



h. c? ad. sk. Valencia, Aug. (A. H. Tweeddale Coll. 



Everett). 



' >n. c? 2 ad. et Zamboanga, March, April Tweeddale Coll. 



imm. sk. (A. H. Everett). 



»,o,p. $ ad. et Basilan, May (A. H. Tweeddale Coll. 



i m m. sk. Everett). 



q. 6 ad. sk. Sulu Is. F. W. Burbidge, Esq. 



[C.]. 



10. Macropygia emiliana. 



? Columba amboinensis, Horsf. (nee Linn.) Tr. Linn. Soe. xiii. p. 183 



(18l>1) (Java). 

 ? Macropvgia phasianella, Hartl. (nee Temm.) Syst. Vers. p. 1)8 



(1844)" (Java). 

 Macropygia unchall, G. R. Gr. (nee Wagl.) Gen. B. ii. p. 471, n. 2 



