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neck and sides of neck blue or deep violet; wings, back, tail, and its 
coverts washed with purple; below uniform light brown except middle 
of abdomen and tail-coverts which are dark buff; tail dark brown with a 
broad, apical, gray band, the middle pair of rectrices do not show this 
band from above. Iris light brown; bare skin about eyes dark, dirty 
red ; bill black; legs and feet bright carmine; nails horn-colored. Length, 
about 255. In a male from Bataan Province, Luzon, the wing is 140; 
tail, 99 ; culmen, 23; tarsus, 20.5. Salvadori gives the following measure- 
ments: Wing, 146; tail, 78; bill, 22; tarsus, 22. 
“A rare bird in the few islands where it is found. Legs dull pink; 
iris dark brown; feet dark pink; nails brown; bill black. Length, 292; 
wing, 145; tail, 97; culmen, 25; tarsus, 21; middle toe with claw, 30.” 
(Bourns and Worcester MS.) 
17. PHAPITRERON CINEREICEPS Bourns and Worcester. 
GRAY-HEADED PIGEON, 
Phabotreron cinereiceps BouRNS and WorcESTER, Minnesota Acad. Nat. Sci. 
Oce. Papers (1894), 1,8; SHARPE, Hand-List (1899), 1, 55. 
Phapitreron cinereiceps McGrEcor and WorcesTER, Hand-List (1906), 10. 
Tawi Tawi (Bourns & Worcester). 
“A dult.—Top of head, nape, and sides of neck clear ashy gray, slightly 
washed with rufous on forehead ; hind neck amethystine as in P. amethys- 
tina; back, rump, and upper tail-coverts brown with bronze reflections, 
the tail-coverts slightly more ruddy than back; four outer pairs of tail- 
feathers dark brown, lighter at base; two central pairs ruddy brown with 
bronze reflections; all the tail-feathers with ashy tips which form a 
distinct terminal band 6 mm. in width; shafts of tail-feathers black ; 
wing-coverts and secondaries uniform with back; primaries dark brown, 
the first five sharply edged with rusty brown on outer web; a narrow 
black stripe under eye; sides of face, ear-coverts, fore neck, and breast 
rich ruddy brown, the breast with a slight metallic gloss; chin and throat 
lighter; abdomen and thighs fulvous brown; flanks darker with slight 
metallic wash; under tail-coverts clear ashy gray; shafts of tail-feathers 
with basal half black, apical half white; under surface of tail nearly 
black, the terminal gray band distinct and wider than on upper surface, 
measuring 15 mm. on outer pair of feathers; under wing-coverts and 
axillars like the flanks; under surface of quills uniform dark brown. Bill 
black; legs and feet dirty purplish; nails black; iris in one specimen 
bright yellow, in another orange-red. Length, 260; wing, 134; tail, 99; 
culmen, 20; tarsus, 18. Sexes alike.” (Bourns and Worcester.) 
This species is known from the types only. 
