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48. SPILOPELIA TIGRINA (Temminck and Knip). 

 MALAY SPOTTED DOVE. 



Columba tiyriua Temminck and KxiP, Hist. Xat. des Pig. (1808-11), 1, 



pi. 43. 

 Turtitr tigrinus Salvador:, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1893), 21, 440. 

 tipilopelia tigrina Sharpe, Hand-List (1899), 1, 80; Gates, Cat. Birds' 



Eggs (1901), 1, 98; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 14. 



Balabac (Everett); Palawan {Whitehend, McGregor, Celestino, White). Bur- 

 ma, ^lalay Peninsula, Greater and Lesser Sunda Islands, Celebes, Moluccas. 



Adult (sexes alike). — Head dark gray with a vinaceous wash; forehead 

 and face lighter ; lores with a small black spot ; bifurcated feathers of 

 neck black with white tips; feathers of upper parts brown with paler, 

 dull, rusty edges and dark shaft-stripes, the stripes widest on tertials 

 and wing-coverts; distal coverts in each series pearl-gray, outer wel)s 

 white; quills brown with narrow pale edges; lower parts vinous; paler, 

 nearly white on chin; abdomen white washed with buff; under tail- 

 coverts white ; three outer tail-feathers black broadly tipped with white : 

 next pair black, tipped with gray; two central feathers uniform brown, 

 next pair black with a broad, terminal, brown band. "Iris reddish pearl ; 

 bill black; feet pinkish." (Wallace.) Length, almut 'MH): wing, 145; 

 tail, 150; exposed culmen, 17; tarsus, 2'i. 



Young. — "More rufescent above and beneath ; feathers of the hind 

 neck of a pale brown with grayisli edges." (Salradori.) 



The Malay spotted dove occurs in small numbers as a winter visitant 

 to Balabac and Palawan. Whitehead says it is "scarce and very local"" 

 in Palawan ; Celestino took several specimens at Puerto Princesa. 



Subfamily GEOPELIINv^. 



Genus GP:OPELIA Swainson, 1837. 



Tip of first primary very slender; tail long and greatly graduated, 

 and its feathers very slender. This genus contains the smallest Philip- 

 pine doves. 



49. GEOPELIA STRIATA (Liiina-us). 



BARRED GROUND DOVE. 



Columba striata Linn.i:is, Syst. Xat. cd 12 (ITtiti). 1, 282. 



Geopelia striata Salvaoori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1893), 21, 4r)S -. Sharpe, 



Hand-List (1899), 1, 80; Gates. Cat. Birds' Eggs (1901 i. 1, 101; 



McGregor and Worcester. Hand-List (1900). 14. 



Ba-to bato ca-tic'-bi, Manila. 



Lubang (McGregor) ; Luzon (Everett, Steere Exp., IloKnifi d- Murcc.slcr. White- 

 head, McGregor); Mindoro (Everett, McGregor); Verde (McGregor). Siani, 

 Southern Tenasserim, Malay Peninsida. Greater and Lesser Sunda Islands. Colcbcs. 

 Aniboina. 



