60 MANUAL OF rHILIITINE BIRDS. 



rufous basally. A specimen from Masbate measures: Length, 241 ; wing, 

 139; tail, 85; culmen from base, 'iO: tarsus, 2(i: middle toe with ekiw, 28. 



Young. — A young nuUe has top and sides of head lirown, the tips of 

 many feathers cinnamon or rusty, especially those al)out the eyes; metallic 

 colors of back and wings largely replaced t)y dusky l)rown and many 

 of the wing-coverts, as well as some primaries and secondaries, tipped and 

 mottled with rusty cinnamon ; sides of neck, breast, and al)domen l)arred 

 with cinnamon and blackish brown. Iris dark brown; l)ill dull reddish 

 brown; legs dull pink; nails slate. 



"Exceedingly common througliout the group. Invariably found on the 

 ground and usually in deep woods. Usually alights on the ground again 

 M-hen flushed. Eyes dark brown; bill dark red; legs and feet light to 

 dark red ; nails light brown. Seven specimens average, 243 in length ; 

 wing, 141 ; tail, 88 ; culmen, 22 ; tarsus, 24 ; middle toe and claw, 29." 

 {Bourns and Worcester MS.) 



The bronze-winged dove, because of its wide distribution, is a species 

 little valued by the collector but its solitary and unolitrusive habits 

 usually lead the novice to mistake it for a rarity. In no place abundant, 

 the species may be found in nearly every island where forest, or even a 

 small growth of trees, exists to atford protected feeding grounds. Gates 

 records two eggs of this species which were collected in Mindoro l)y the 

 Steere Expedition. 



Subfamily GEOTRYGONIN.^. 



Genus PHLEGCEXAS Keichenbach, 1852. 



Terrestrial and solitary; wings moderate; first primary normal; tail 

 moderate and rounded ; tarsi unfeathered ; wing-coverts banded ; chin 

 and throat white; a conspicuous spot, or patch, of orange or red on crop 

 region, where the feathers are decomposed and harsh. 



Species. 

 a\ Breast-spot blood-red. 



6'. Forehead ^ray; lower breast pink luzonica (p. 60} 



V. Forehead green like crown ; lower breast buff or fawn. 



c\ A broad chestnut band on wing-coverts criniger (p. 61) 



c^ A broad white band on lesser wing-coverts keayi (p. 62) 



«^. Breast-spot orange. 



6\ Hind breast and upper abdomen pearly ash menagei (p. 63) 



6\ Chest and abdomen white platense (p. 64) 



ol. PHLEGCENAS LUZONICA (Scopolji. 



LUZON PUNALADA. 



Coluniha luzonica SfOPOM, Del Flor. et Faun. Insubr. ( 17iS6). !I4. 



Phloganas luzonica Salvauori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1893), 21, 585; 

 Sharpe, Hand-List (189!)), 1, 88; McGregor and Worcester, Hand- 

 List (1906). 15. 



Pu-fia-Id-da, Manila and generally. 



Luzon {Meyer, Everett, Ileriot. Steere Exp., Whitehead, Mcilregor, Celestino) . 



