32 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 
18. PHAPITRERON BRUNNEICEPS Bourns and Worcester. 
siowemanan PIGEON, 
Phabotreron brunneiceps BOURNS and WoRCESTER, Minnesota Acad. Nat. Sci. 
Oce. Papers (1894), 1,9; SHARPE, Hand-List (1899), 1, 55. 
Phapitreron brunneiceps MCGREGOR and WorRCESTER, Hand-List (1906), 10; 
McGrecor, Phil. Jour. Sci. (1907), 2, see. A, 281. 
Basilan (Bourns & Worcester, McGregor). 
“A dult.—Above dark brown with greenish reflections ; amethystine spot 
on hind neck less blue than in P. amethystina; top of head brown, 
forehead slightly lighter and nape slightly darker than crown; sides of 
face and ear-coverts brown, paler than crown: a narrow, dark brown 
streak under eye; chin and throat grayish fulvous; breast pearly ash; 
abdomen, flanks, thighs, and under tail-coverts ochraceous-brown ; under 
surface of tail brownish black with a broad, gray, terminal band; under 
wing-coverts and axillars fulvous-brown; primaries with sharply defined 
light edges on upper web; below slightly more ashy; tail-feathers brown 
above with distinct terminal bands of gray, central pair with slight 
metallic gloss; shafts of quills black above and below except the terminal 
15 mm. which are white. Bill black; feet dark pink; nails brown; iris 
orange-red. Length, 255; wing, 132; tail, 89; culmen, 24; tarsus, 18. 
A well-defined species distinguished from P. amethystina by its smaller 
size and the entirely different color of its under surface.” (Bourns and 
Worcester. ) 
This species is very distinct from P. amethystina being smaller and 
differently colored. A male measures: Length, 267; wing, 135; tail, 
100; culmen from base, 25. 
19. PHAPITRERON FRONTALIS Bourns and Worcester. 
CEBU AMETHYSTINE PIGEON. 
Phabotreron frontalis BouRNS and WorcESTER, Minnesota Acad. Nat. Sci. 
Oce. Papers (1894), 1, 10; SHARPE, Hand-List (1899), 1, 55. 
Phapitreron frontalis McGREGOR and WorcESTER, Hand-List (1906), 10. 
Cebu (Bourns & Worcester). 
“Adult.—General color of upper surface as in P. brunneiceps but 
forehead and crown lighter, nape washed with ashy gray, and lacking 
metallic gloss; tail glossed with dull bronze instead of amethystine and 
the terminal band less strongly marked than in brunneiceps; under sur- 
face much as in brunneiceps but everywhere darker; under tail-coverts 
ashy gray, slightly tipped with fulvous; tail much as in brunneiceps, the 
outer web of outer pair of feathers being, however, light brown; basal 
half of shafts dirty whitish; apical fourth white, rest brown. Iris pale 
orange ; bill black; legs and feet purple; nails light brown. Sexes alike. 
Length, 260; wing, 140; tail, 100; culmen, 51; tarsus, 21.” (Bourns 
and Worcester.) 
