PHLECUl^NAS. 61 



Adult {sexes si7nUar). — Top of liead, from base of bill to bind border 

 of eye, gray ; rest of upper parts dark brown, eacb featber, except rectrices 

 and their coverts, edged with metallic green or purple, according to the 

 light ; the edging wider on interscapulars ; sides of neck similar to back ; 

 chin, throat, and sides of face below eyes pure white; a patch of blood- 

 red on the stiffish feathers of crop, shading into pale salmon on lower 

 breast and abdomen; sides gray; flanks, thighs, and under tail-coverts 

 light buff; primaries and secondaries brown, edges reddish brown, basal 

 half of inner web of primaries cinnamon ; greater and median coverts 

 reddish brown with wide gray tips forming two gray l^ands across each 

 wing; lesser coverts gray; two middle pairs of rectrices brown on upper 

 surface; the other rectrices gray, each with a subterminal black bar. 



Length, about 280. A male from Bataan Province, Luzon, measures : 

 Wing, 148; tail, 112; culmen from base, 21; tarsus, 35. A female from 

 the same province measures: Wing, 145; tail, 102; culmen from base, 

 20; tarsus, 32. 



This beautiful dove is often found in the Manila markets; it is a 

 well-known favorite of the Spaniards. The species is commonly known 

 as puhalada which means "stabbed with a dagger." The C'alamianes 

 record of this species is doubtless an error. 



52. PHLEGCENAS CRINIGER (Jacquinot and Pucheian). 

 HAIR-BHEASTED PUNALADA. 



Pampusana criniger J.\CQri.\OT and Pucheran, Voy. Pole 8ud. (1853), 

 3, 118. 



Phlogcenas bartletti Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1863), 377, pi. 34. 



Phlog(£Has crinigera Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1893), 21, 587; 

 Sharpe. Hand-List (1899). 1, 88; McGregor and Worcester, Hand- 

 List (1906), 15. 



Basilan {Hteere Exp., Bourns <C- Worcester, Mcdregor) \ Leyte (Whitehead); 

 Mindanao (Everett, Steere Exp.) ; Samar (Bourns d- Worcester) . 



Adiilt male and female. — Head, cheeks, neck, and mantle dark metallic 

 green changing to metallic purple ; back, rump, and tail-coverts chestnut, 

 some of the feathers with amethystine edges; white of chin and throat 

 extending backward on each side of a large dark red crop-patch ; rest of 

 under parts rich bulfy brown, iigbter on tail-coverts, nearly white on abdo- 

 men ; alula, primaries, and ])rii nary-coverts dark l)i()wn; secondaries 

 chestnut; upper lesser coverts brown, edged with iiictallic green changing 

 to amethystine; remainder of lesser c-overts broadly ti])j)ed with gray; 

 median and greater coverts clu'stmit. tipped with giay forming wing- 

 bands; middle tail-feathers cliestmit. the others hlaekish with wide gray 

 tips. A male from Basilan: Length, 2<S(i: wing, 15;): tail, IKI: exposed 

 culmen, 19; tarsus, 3G. A female fi'oni liasihin: Wing. 145; tail, 1)5; 

 exposed culmen, 19; tarsus, 34. 



"Eyes lilac; legs light pink; feet dark pink; nails nearly white; upper 



