726 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 



and around eyes, dark purple. Tip of bill black. Egg taken from 

 ovary.' (Bourns.) 



"Measurements of adult male (Samar * * * ). — Wing, 129; tail, 

 95; culmen and cere (chord), 14.5; tarsus, 20; middle toe with claw, 

 27." (M earns.) 



This species, if valid, will probably include all the small-billed brown 

 pigeons from Samar and Leyte. 



Page 37: To names of collectors of Leucotreron occipitalis, under 

 Negros, add : Celestino. 



Page 38: To localities for Leucotreron marchei add: Polillo {AIc- 

 Gregor) . 



Page 43: To localities for Muscadivores niichalis add: Lapac 

 (Bartsch) ; under Luzon add: Bartsch. To localities for Muscadivores 

 chalyiura add : Polillo (McGregor) ; under Negros add : Celestino. 



Page 44: To localities for Muscadivores oenea add: Masbate (Bartsch). 



Page 45 : An imperial pigeon from Palmas Island has l)of'n described 

 as — 



MUSCADIVORES PALM ASENSIS Meains. 



PALMAS ISLAND IMPERIAL PIGEON. 



Muscadivores palmasensi's Meabns, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. (1909), 36, 436. 



"Characters. — Closely related to Muscadivores pickeringi from Mangsee 

 Island, north of Borneo, on the west side of the Sulu Sea; also to 

 Muscadivores langhornei Mearns, from West Bolod Island, southeast of 

 the Sulu Sea and near the Island of Basilan. From the type of 

 picJceringi (Cat. No. 15,732 U. S. N. M.) it differs in being paler, with 

 much less vinaceous color on the chin, throat, breast, and under tail- 

 coverts. The wing is 10 mm. shorter. From langhornei, which it 

 resembles more closely in the coloration of the under parts, it can be 

 distinguished at a glance by the dark color of the mantle, rump, and 

 upper tail-coverts. 



"Adult male (type, killed January 21). — Head, neck, upper back, and 

 upper parts, lilac-gray, purest on tbe upper side of the neck and upper 

 back, washed with vinaceous on crown, ear-coverts, and breast, fading to 

 whitish around base of bill, and shading to drab-gray on legs and crissum ; 

 scapulars, back, rump, and wing-coverts mouse-gray, lustrous in a certain 

 light; wing-quills and upper tail-coverts dark mouse-gray, with subdued 

 reflections of violet, coppery, and green; rectrices lustrous golden green 

 above, smoke-gray below ; flanks, axillars, and lining of wings clear gray. 

 An adult male topotype in fresh plumage, shot by Dr. Paul C. Freer, 

 October 7, 1906, only differs from the type in being appreciably darker. 

 The sexes are practically alike in size and color. 



"Colors of soft parts. — Two mated pairs, about to breed, had the soft 

 parts colored exactly alike, January 21, 1906: Iris red; eyelids and feet 

 vinaceous; claws dusky purplish gray; bare space surrounding eye, pale 



