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54. PHLEGCENAS ME NAG El Bourns and \Yoicester. 

 TAWI TAWI PUNALADA. 



Phlogcenas menagei Bourns and Worcester, Minnesota Acad. Nat. Sei. 

 Occ. Papers (1894), 1, 10; Sharpe, Hand-List (1899), 1 , 88 ; Mc- 

 Gregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 15. 



Tawi Tawi {Bourns d Worcester) . 



"Adult male. — Entire upper surface of head, nape, hind neck, upper 

 back, sides of neck, and sides of breast rich metallic green ; scapulars and 

 interscapulars dark brown, broadly edged with elegant violet when 

 specimen is held between observer and the light, this color changing to 

 deep green when specimen is held away from source of light; rump and 

 upper tail-coverts ruddy brown narrowly edged with metallic colors of 

 back ; a few of the longest coverts nearly black, washed with rufous-brown 

 at tips; basal portion of tail-feathers dark ashy gray, the two central 

 feathers darkest; a distinct subterminal band of black on all but central 

 pair of feathers; all the feathers with a terminal gray band, least distinct 

 on central pair; wing-coverts dark brown, broadly tipped with metallic 

 green except outer series, which are broadly tipped with ashy gray; 

 primary- and secondary-coverts and secondaries fulvous-brown, the outer 

 half of outer webs of feathers rich rufous-brown, the inner secondaries 

 having the entire outer web, and tip of inner web, of this color ; primaries 

 fulvous-brown faintly washed with rufous-brown on basal half of outer 

 webs; lores, a narrow line under eye, and ear-coverts nearly black with a 

 faint wash of metallic green; metallic green of back and sides of neck 

 continued in a distinct band across the breast, only slightly interrupted 

 at center of breast and inclosing a beautiful orange plastron formed by 

 the bristle-like tips of the feathers of the fore breast; basal portion of 

 these feathers as well as chin, throat, sides of face, and sides of throat 

 pure white ; an indistinct white band behind the green pectoral band ; 

 hind breast and upper abdomen pearly ash, a few of the feathers tipped 

 with creamy white; belly creamy white; flanks, thighs, and under tail- 

 coverts buff; under surface of tail like upper, the terminal band being 

 rather more pronounced; under wing-coverts, axillars, and basal portion 

 of inner webs of all the quills che^;tiHit-l)rown; rest of quills dark brown. 

 Iris light silver-gray; bill slaty gray at tip, black at base; legs and 

 feet liglit red; nails light brown. Length, 286; wing, 153; tail, 103; 

 culmen, 21; tarsus, 36. 



"Extremely rare and difficult to obtain. We secured two fine males 

 but failed to get a female." {Bourns and Worcester.) 



