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toes. A male from Sibii3'an measures: Length, 340; wing, 160; tail, 

 115; culmen from base, 18; middle toe with claw, 35. A male from 

 Basilan: Wing, 148; tail, 115; culmen from base, 18; middle toe with 

 claw, 33. A female from Mindoro: Length, 320; wing, 153; tail, 113; 

 culmen from base, 19; middle toe with claw, 34. 



Young. — The immature bird differs from the adult in having top of 

 head, neck, and sides of face uniform green (or with a few purple 

 feathers) and the yellow and purple areas of breast indicated by a few 

 scattered feathers of these colors. The first primary is attenuated but 

 not so abruptly cut on inner web as it is in the adult. In a young female 

 from Sibuyan the bill was dull red at base; tip brown; feet pink; 

 nails black. 



27. LEUCOTRERON MARCHEI (Oustalot). 



MARCHE'S FRUIT PIGEON. 



Ptilopus {Rhaniphictdus) «?arc7ifi Oustalet, Le Naturalisto (1880), 324. 

 Ptilopus marchei Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (189.3), 21, 75; Grant. 



Ibis (1895), 1, 468; Whitehead, Ibis (1899), 486. 

 Leucotreroti marchii Sharpe, Hand-List (1899), 1, 55. 

 Leucotreron marchei McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 10. 



Luzon (Marche, Whitehead, Worcester). 



''Adult male. — Entire top of head dull crimson-red, the same color 

 being continued down the sides of the cheeks, on either side of the 

 throat ; feathers surrounding the eye light red ; hind cheek and ear-coverts 

 duslcy black; back and sides of the neck and upper part of the breast 

 pearl-gray, forming a collar which completely separates the dull crimson 

 crown from the dusky black mantle and back ; wings like the back, but 

 Avith green reflections; lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts bronze- 

 broAVTi with green reflections; primary quills black, finely edged with pale 

 yellow; the two outer secondaries are similarly margined, the remainder 

 edged with crimson along the middle of the outer web, the crimson barbs 

 being loose and free and forming a large patch on the wing; tail bronze- 

 brown, broadly edged with brownish gray, beneath dark gray tij^ped with 

 whitish; chin and middle of throat brownish buff; in the center of the 

 gray breast a large patch of bright orange-vermilion washed with lake, 

 shading into deep red-lake below; this is followed by a patch of creamy 

 white; rest of under parts dull pearly gray, most of the feathers finely 

 edged with creamy yellow; under tail-coverts buff, with brownish gray 

 centers. 'Eye: inner ring yellow, outer lake-red; bill at base brick-red, 

 tipped with yellow; feet deep coral-red.^ (Whitehead.) Length, 400; 

 wing, 180; tail, 129; tarsus, 32. 



"Adult female. — Similar to the male, but crown of a less crimson 

 tinge; lower part of the back, iinnp, and tail lironze-green, distinctly 

 greener than in the male; upper part of the breast-patch orange-red 

 without the crimson wash. Length, 373; wing, 173; tail, 114; tarsus, 29. 



