382 ON THE BIRDS INHABITING [1875. 



Macroptgia, Swainson. 



146. * Macroptgia tenuirostris. 

 Macropycjia tenuirostris, G. R. Gray, List Birds Brit. Mus. Columbce, p. 39, " Philippines," 



descr. nulla (18-56); Bp. Consp. ii. p. 57, " Pliilippines " (1857). 



Columha pliasianella, Temm. PI. Col. 100, "Manilla," nee Temm. Tr. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 129. 



Hah. Luzon, Negros {Meyer). 



This species belongs to the same section as M. pliasianeUa (Temm.) and M. emiliana, Bp. 



In Negros f Dr. Meyer obtained a single example of a Macropygia which differs from the 

 Luzon species in having the back and uropygium dark brown without a trace of rufous, in the 

 shoulder-coverts being uniform brown, not edged with rufous, in the upper surface of the middle 

 pair of rectrices being brown like the back, and in having a black band traversing the whole 

 breadth of the second and third outer pair of rectrices (the first pair are wanting). This 

 individual is stated on the label to be a male, while the Luzon example with which the above 

 comparison is made is marked a female. The differences observable may therefore be sexual. 



M. tenuirostris is stated by Professor Schlegel (Mus. Pays-Bas, Columbce, p. 109) to belong 

 to the Javan and Lombock species, M. emiliana, Bp., — an opinion in which I regret I cannot 

 concur. Besides being considerably smaller, M. emiliana has the upper plumage of a much 

 lighter and clearer rufous, and the upper surface of the rectrices are pure light rufous, and not 

 brown. 



TuRTDR, Selby. 



147. * TURTUR DUSSUMIERI. 



Columba dussiimieri, Temm. PL Col. 188, "Lugon " (1823). 



Hab. Luzon and Negros {Meyer). 

 Tr. Z. S. be. Otherwise closely allied to T. bitorquata (Temm.), this Luzon Dove differs in having not 



merely the crown, but the whole of the head, nape, cheeks, and sides of the throat ash-grey, 

 in the nuchal band being formed of pale grey feathers margined with iron-grey, in wanting the 

 pure white collar, in the bill being much weaker and shorter, and in the white terminal bands 

 on the lateral rectrices being much narrower. 



Two Luzon examples are respectively marked male and female by Dr. Meyer, and do not 

 differ. A third Luzon individual, marked a female by Dr. Meyer, has the head the same colour 

 as the back, the feathers of the nuchal band smaller and almost entirely iron-grey or black, 

 bordered below by a bright ferruginous zone. It is probably an immature bird. The example 

 from Negros is identical with those from Luzon. 



Professor Schlegel (Mus. Pays-Bas, Cohimla', p. 120) says that T. dussumieri has been 

 wrongly indicated as inhabiting the Indian continent and Malacca, and further observes that 

 Mr. G. R. Gray gives its habitat as Luzon, while it in reality probably inhabits the Mariannes. 

 The species certainly does not occur either on the Asiatic continent or in the Simda Islands, but 

 does inhabit the Philippines, whence the type described by Temminck originated. T. gaimardi, 

 Bp. Consp. ii. p. G6, with which Professor Schlegel associates T. dussumieri, was described from 



t IM. eurycerca, Tweeddale, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 288.— Ed.] 



p. 219. 



