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thereby. The first five specie ee key to species), the amethystina 
group are rare deep-woods birds; their colors are generally darker brown 
than those of the leucotis group and the bill is noticeably longer and 
heavier, being longer than tarsus. The five species of the lewcotis group 
are fairly common in their respective ranges; they are to be found in more 
open country or even on the borders of rice-fields; in this group the 
tarsus equals, or is slightly greater than, the culmen. 
Species. 
a. Culmen more than 19 mm.; longer than tarsus. 
bt. Breast not mottled. 
c’. Under tail-coverts cinnamon or ocherous-brown. 
@.. Breast Drowns Wine JOM get. a ose oo cetect seen amethystina (p. 30) 
d?. Breast pearly ash; wing shorter...........-...---..-.-s-s-0---- brunneiceps (p. 32) 
c*. Under tail-coverts ashy gray. 
d@. Under tail-coverts not tipped with fulvous................ cinereiceps (p. 31) 
d*, Under tail-coverts slightly tipped with fulvous.............. frontalis (p. 32) 
B?. Breash, distinetly ‘mottled’ ca .cc-c8 ots Mccabe one apnoea stn maculipectus (p. 33) 
a*. Culmen less than 17 mm.; equal to or less than tarsus. 
b'. Forehead gray or fulvous, not white. 
c'. Throat and cheeks deep ruddy fulvous. 
d', Throat darker; occiput dull amethystine-rufous............ leucotis (p. 33) 
d*, Throat lighter; occiput bright coppery amethystine.. occipitalis (p. 34) 
e, Throat and cheeks pale fulvous. 
d‘, Forehead grayish; light streak under eye fulvous........ nigrorum (p. 35) 
d*, Forehead pale fulvous; light streak under eye white. 
brevirostris (p. 35) 
6°; Morehead (and ichin pure: witbest: hee ee enh Bee ea teaean albifrons (p. 36) 
16. PHAPITRERON AMETHYSTINA Bonaparte. 
AMETHYSTINE BROWN PIGEON, 
Phapitreron amethystina BONAPARTE, Consp. Gen. Avium (1854), 2, 28; 
Compt. Rend. (1855), 40, 214; McGrecor and Worcester, Hand-hist 
(1906), 10. 
Phabotreron amethystina WALDEN, Trans. Zool. Soc. (1875), 9, 214, pl. 34, 
fig. 2; Satvaport, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1893), 21, 66; SHARPE, 
Hand-List (1899), 1, 55. 
Bohol (McGregor); Dinagat (Hverett); Leyte (Steere Exp.) ; Luzon (Meyer, 
McGregor) ; Mindanao (Everett, Goodfellow, Celestino) ; Panaon (Everett); Sa- 
mar (Steere Exp., Whitehead) . 
Adult.—A black line below eye from gape to neck; below this a line 
of white mixed with reddish brown; general color above dark brown, 
lighter on forehead and fore crown; bird held toward the light, neck and 
its sides, beautiful, iridescent purple and violet-blue; wing-coverts, back, 
rump, and tail-coverts, dark glossy green; bird held away from the light, 
