46 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 



/Species. 



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 a^. Chin, throat, and upper part of chest gray or black. 



6\ Band on fore breast light slate-gray '.'. carola (p. 46) 



b^ Band on fore breast black nigrorum (p. 47) 



a^ Chin, throat, and upper part of chest nearly pure white.— mindanensis (p. 47) 



37. PTILOCOLPA CAROLA (Bonaparte). 



GRAY-BREASTED FRUIT PIGEON. 



Carpophaga carola Boxapabte, Consp. Gen. Avium (1854), 2, 34; Salva- 

 DORi, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1893), 21, 206. 



Piilocolpa carola Grant, Ibis (1895), 117; Whitehead, Ibis (1899), 489; 

 Sharpe, Hand-List (1899), 1, 65; McGregor and Worcester. Hand- 

 List (1906), 12. 



Piilocolpa griseipectus Boxaparte, Consp. Gen. Avium (1854), 2, 34. 



Luzon {Gevers, Heriot, Whitehead, McGregor) ; Mindoro {Steere Exp., White- 

 head, McGregor, Porter) ; ^lindanao {Everett, Koch d- Schadenberg) ; * Sibuyan 

 (McGregor) . 



Adult male. — All of head;, neck all around, back and interscapulars 

 light gray ; chin white ; lower throat delicate light gray, bordered l)ehind 

 by a nan'ow white band and this followed l)y a wide, dark gray band on 

 fore breast; lower breast, abdomen, and flanks dark chestnut, darker and 

 slightly purplish on breast ; sides gray ; alula, primaries, and their coverts, 

 dark, glossy blue-green ; secondaries blue-green, mealy along outer edges ; 

 wing-coverts and inner secondaries canescent, the smaller feathers each 

 with a dark spot at tip; nmip-feathers canescent with glossy green cen- 

 ters and light purple edges ; rectrices and upper coverts glossy blue-green, 

 shafts black ; rectrices black below, except outermost pair which are brown 

 with white shafts. Iris white mottled with pink; bill rose-pink, the 

 "nail" white; legs rose-pink, nails brown. Two males from Benguet, 

 Luzon, average: Length, 356; wing, 216; tail, 131; culmen from base, 

 22; tarsus, 22. 



Adult female. — Somewhat similar to the male but without a white 

 band across the crop; fore breast light purple dulled by its slightly 

 mealy look; held toward the light, it becomes green and away from the 

 light, slightly metallic copper-red washed with vinous ; rest of under parts 

 much lighter chestnut than in male; wing-coverts glossy green, lesser 

 and median coverts with blue spots at tips; interscapulars vinous and 

 slightly mealy; lower back and rump green with touches of deep l)lue. 

 The following notes are from an adult female taken in Benguet, Luzon : 

 Iris with an inner white ring and outer pinkish ring; eyelids dirty 

 white; bare skin about eyes blue-gray; bill deep rose-red, tip white; legs 

 and feet rose-red, soles yellowish; nails brown. 



* It is possible that all the records of Ptilocolpa for Mindanao should be referred 

 to P. mindanensis. 



