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41. ZONOPHAPS MINDORENSIS ( Wliiteliead) . 

 MINDORO ZONE-TAILED PIGEON. 



Carijophoga inindorcnsis Whitehead, Ann. & Mag. Xat. Hist. (1896), ser. 



6, 18, 189; Ibis (1899), 488; Grant. Ibis (1896). 476, pi. 11. 

 Zonophaps mindorensis Sharpe, Hand-List (1899), 1, 65; McGregor and 



Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 12. 



Mindoro ( Wh itehead ) . 



"Adult male. — Most nearly allied to Carpophaga radiata (Quoy and 

 Gaimard) but much larger. Top of head, neck, breast, and rest of under 

 parts bluish slate-gray, darkest on belly and under tail-coverts, the latter 

 indistinctly edged with rufous ; forehead, cheeks, and tliroat pale whitish 

 pink ; feathers surrounding eye and forming a patch above ear-coverts, 

 blackish gray; hind neck gradually shading into sootv black on the mantle 

 and interscapulary region; scapulars and inner wing-coverts bronze-lake, 

 changing to bronze-green on the rest of the wings, rump, and upper tail- 

 coverts ; primary quills blackish gray, the inner ones glossed on the outer 

 web and toward the extremity with metallic green ; tail-feathers black, 

 glossed with purple and green, and with a wide gray l)and across the 

 middle; under wing-coverts and axillars slightly glossed with bronze. 

 Length, 482 ; exposed culmen, '^3 ; wing, 234 ; tail, 178 ; tarsus, 35 ; middle 

 toe with claw, 51. 



"Adult female. — Similar to the male but rather smaller, and the under 

 tail-coverts distinctly margined with chestnut. Length, 445 ; exposed 

 culmen, ■?3 ; wing, ^'^o ; tail, 159; tarsus, 33; middle toe with claw, 4()." 

 (Whitehead.) 



This species is much larger than Zonophaps poliocephala from which 

 it differs also in the following points: A large black patch on ear-coverts 

 and surrounding, eye; forehead, cheeks, and chin fawn-color; occiput, 

 neck, crop, breast, abdomen, and under tail-coverts gray. 



"Mate. — Iris brigiit yellow, witli an (mter ring of rod ; orbital skin 

 lake-red, with a grayish yellow space between the rings; bill black; feet 

 coral-pink. Female : Iris straw-yellow, with an outer ring of golden 

 brown: orbital skin orange-yellow, bill olive-brown, Ijlack at tip; feet 

 salmon-red : nails black. 



''This species is more often met with singly or in pairs, but sometimes 

 as many as four l)irds were seen together; they were feeding on some 

 large j)ur])le colored fruits as l)ig as a pigeon's eg,g. ('. mindoreitsis, 

 like tiie last species (Zonophaps poliorephata), has a conspicuous fleshy 

 I'ing outside the eyelid. * * * During dull misty weatber, especially 

 just after daybreak, the penetrating booming note is more often heard 

 than on clear days." (Whitehead.) 



So far as known the species is conlincd to tlie highlands of Mindoro 

 at an eh'vation of between 1.2i)0 and 1,S(MI meters. 

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