PHAPITREKOX. 33 



The length of cuhiien given above (2 inches in original description) 

 is undoubtedly an error. 



20. PHAPITRERON MACULIPECTUS Bourns and Worcester. 



MOTTLED AMETHYSTINE PIGEON. 



Phabotreron maculipectus Bourns and Worcester, ^linnesota Acad. Xat. 



Sci. Occ. Papers (1894), 1, 10; Sharpe, Hand-List (1899), 1, 55; 



Grant, Ibis (1896), 563. 

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



Negros {Bourns d- ^Yorcester, Whitehead) . 



"Adult male. — Upper surface exactly as in P. ametJiijstina except that 

 the primaries are slightly darker; dark brown stripe under eye extending 

 from gape through ear-coverts to hind neck; below this a white stripe 

 and a second shorter dark stripe below the latter ; cheeks fulvous brown ; 

 chin and throat more ruddy brown; breast clear ashy gray, each feather 

 liaving an edging distinctly lighter than its center, producing a beautiful 

 mottled appearance ; feathers on center of fore breast washed with brown 

 and forming a distinct patch ; feathers of abdomen lack the dark centers, 

 and their edges washed with light brown ; thighs and under tail-coverts 

 cinnamon-brown, much lighter than in P. amethystina; under surface 

 of tail-feathers dark brown, nearly black, with faint metallic gloss and 

 a broad, gray, terminal band ; shafts of feathers black changing to \v\nte 

 at tips; under surface of wing and axillars uniform fulvous brown. Bill 

 black; feet dark pink; nails dark brown, nearly black. Wing, 145; 

 tail, 115; culmen, 26; tarsus, 20. Length not taken from birds in flesh. 

 'J'his beautiful species was obtained in the Island of Negros on the moun- 

 tains of the interior, where it is by no means common. It is distinguished 

 from all tlie other species of the genus by its fine mottled breast." 

 (Bourns and Worceste):) 



21. PHAPITRERON LEUCOTIS (Temniinck). 



NORTHERN WHITE-EARED PIGEON. 



Cohimha leucotis Temmi.nck, PI. Col. (1823), 189. 



Phabotreron leucotis Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. ^lus. (1893), 21, 67; 



Sharpe, Hand-List (1899), 1, 55; Gates, Cat. Birds' Eggs (1901), 



1, 83. 

 Phapitreron leucotis McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 10; 



McGregor, Bur. Govt. Labs. Manila (1905), 34, 6, pi. 3 (nest). 

 (leopelia striata Grant and Whiteuead, Ibis (1898), 246 (eggs) ! error. 



Ba-to ba-to tu-Ioc, Manila ; cu-lu-cu-luc, Lubang. 



Catanduanes (Whitehead) ; Luzon (Meyer, Heriof, Everett, Steere Exp., White- 

 head, McGregor) ; Mindoro {Steere Exp., Bourns d- Worcester, Everett, McGregor, 



Porter) . 



Adult. — A black line from gape to nape l)ch)w eye; below this a white 

 line from opposite the posterior border of eye to nape; above, general 

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