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neck and sides of neck blue or deep violet; wings, back, tail, and its 

 coverts washed with purple; below uniform light brown except middle 

 of abdomen and tail-coverts which are dark buff; tail dark brown with a 

 broad, apical, gray band, the middle pair of rectrices do not show this 

 band from above. Iris light brown; bare skin about e3'es dark, dirty 

 red ; bill black ; legs and feet bright carmine ; nails horn-colored. Length, 

 about 255. In a male from Bataan Province, Luzon, the wing is 140; 

 tail, 99; culmen, 33 ; tarsus, 20.5. Salvadori gives the following measure- 

 ments: Wing, 146; tail, 78; bill, 22; tarsus, 22. 



"A rare bird in the few islands where it is found. Legs dull pink; 

 iris dark brown; feet dark pink; nails brown; bill black. Length, 292; 

 wing, 145; tail, 97; culmen, 25; tarsus, 21; middle toe with claw, 30."" 

 (Bourns and Worcester MS.) 



17. PHAPITRERON CINEREICEPS Bourns and Worcester. 



GHAY-HEADED PIGEON. 



Phabotreron cinereiceps Bourns and Worcester, Minnesota Acad. Xat. Sci. 



Occ. Papers (1894), 1,8; Sharpe, Hand-List (1899), 1, 55. 

 Phapitreron cinereiceps McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 10. 



Tawi Tawi (Boui~ns & TT'orcesfer) . 



"Adult. — Top of head, nape, and sides of neck clear ashy gray, slightly 

 washed with rufous on forehead; hind neck amethystine as in P. amethys- 

 tina; back, rump, and upper tail-coverts brown with bronze reflections, 

 the tail-coverts slightly more ruddy than back; four outer pairs of tail- 

 feathers dark brown, lighter at base ; two central pairs ruddy brown with 

 bronze reflections; all the tail-feathers with ashy tips which form a 

 distinct terminal band 6 mm. in width; shafts of tail-feathers black; 

 wing-coverts and secondaries uniform with back; primaries dark brown, 

 tlie first five sharply edged with rusty brown on outer web; a narrow 

 black stripe under eye; sides of face, ear-coverts, fore neck, and breast 

 rich ruddy l)rown, the breast with a sliglit metallic gloss; chin and throat 

 liglitcr; abdomen and thighs fulvous brown; flanks darker with slight 

 metallic wash; under tail-coverts clear ashy gray; shafts of tail-feathers 

 M'ith basal half black, apical half whiu-: under surface of tail nearly 

 black, the terminal gray band distinct and wider than on upper surface, 

 measuring 15 mm. on outer })air of feathers; under wing-coverts and 

 axillars like the flanks; under surface of quills unirorni dark brown. Bill 

 black; legs and feet dirty purplish; nails black; iris in one spei-imen 

 ])right -yellow, in another orange-red. Length. 2(50; wing, 134; tail, 99; 

 culmen, 20; tarsus, 18. Sexes alike." {Bourns and Worresfer.) 



This species is known from the types only. 



