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and near the carpal edge a large spot of this color; sides, thighs, and 

 flanks green, thighs graj'er, flanks tipped with naples-yellow ; ahdomen 

 and under tail-coverts yellowish white, the inner webs of the latter partly 

 green; center tail-feathers above green, grayish at tip, all the lateral tail- 

 feathers blackish, tipped with gray, washed with green; tail below dusky 

 grayish, terminal bar whitish; quills above l)lack, washed externally with 

 green, finely edged with yellowish; wings below slaty, the first primary 

 much attenuated for about 2 cm. and incurved. 



"Adult female. — Above all parrot-green, except for a patch of aster- 

 purple on crown and occiput, and purplish black spots on the scapulars 

 and inner-coverts; breast green, without rose-purple and the dark plum- 

 purple band of the male. 



"'I III mature male. — Closely reseml)ling the female; forehead green with 

 the purple feathers of the crown intermingled; dark purple breast-band 

 commencing to form ; breast grayer than in the female. 



"Young in first plumage. — Bright parrot-green, the wing-coverts and 

 secondaries broadly margined with light yellow, the back, rump, and 

 scapulars, and breast more finely margined with yellow ; remaining under 

 parts much as in the female; tail tipped with 3'ellowish white; no purple 

 on head or elsewhere. 



"Wing, 128 to 140; tail, 95; tarsus, 22; culmen from cranium suture, 

 17 to 19." {Meyer and Wiglesworth.) 



Male. — "Iris sea-gi'een; bill green, reddish at base; tarsus greenish 

 olive. Length, 295 ; wing, 144." (Salvadori.) 



Genus SPILOTEEEOX Salvadori, 1882. 



First primary slightly attenuated on its distal third; tail square; 

 tarsus feathered nearly to the toes. 



30. SPILOTRERON BANGUEYENSIS (A.B.Meyer). 

 MEYER'S FRUIT PIGEON. 



PtUoims hangueyensis Meyer, .Tour, fiir Orii. (1S91). 70; Sat.vadori. Cat. 



Birds Brit. Mus. (1893), 21, 143. 

 t<pilo<reron bangueyensis Sharpe, Hand-List (1899), 1, Gl; McGregor and 



Worcester, Hand-List (190G), 11. 

 Ptilopus piirpureinucha Meyer, Jour, fiir Orn. (1891), 71. 



Basilan (Everett, Steere Exp., Bouriis it- Worcester, McGregor) ; Bongan 

 {Everett) ; Cagayan Sulu (Mearns) ; Mindanao {Everett, Steere Exp.) ; Palawan 

 {Lempiere, Whitehead); Sibutu (Everett); Sulu (Burbidge, GuUlemnrd. Hminix 

 cC- Worcester) ; Tawi Tawi (Bourns <.(: Worcester) . Banguey. 



Adult male. — Bright leaf-green, mantle slightly yellowisli; liead, neck, 

 and throat pearly gray; cbin and upper throat yellow; a large patch on 

 occiput and hind neck lilack ; lower abdomen and short tail-coverts bright 

 yellow; longer tail-coverts bright carmine, narrowly tipped with yellow; 

 secondaries and greater coverts verv narrowlv edited with vcliow. Kvclids. 



