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color brown; forehead and crown dark gray; below brown; chin, upper 
throat, and cheeks ruddy fulv@@®; lower breast and abdomen slightly 
ochraceous, much paler posteriorly; under tail-coverts dark pearl-gray ; 
wings brown; primaries with pale edges; rectrices brown, each with a 
wide, terminal, gray band. Metallic reflections; specimen held toward 
the light, occiput, neck, sides of neck, throat, breast, sides of body, and 
flanks bronze-green; a blue collar on hind neck and a blue band across 
interscapulars ; back, rump, and wing-coverts touched with purple; when 
specimen is held away from the light the blue bands change to green; 
the green of neck and lower parts becomes purple; the back, wing-coverts, 
tail-coverts, and rectrices are touched with violet and dark purple. Iris 
varies, usually mottled pinkish surrounded by a narrow white ring or a 
pale blue ring; bill black; legs carmine; nails horn-brown. Length, 
about 235. Three males average: Wing, 134; tail, 81; culmen from base, 
18; tarsus, 20. 
Four eggs taken by Whitehead at Cape Engafo in May, 1895, are 
“glossy and measure from 26.5 to 28.5 in length, and from 19.5 to 20 
in breadth.”  (Oates.) 
“Fairly common in deep woods. Breeds in April. Legs and feet deep 
pink; nails brown. Length, 260; wing, 127; tail, 95; tarsus, 19; middle 
toe with claw, 29.” (Bourns and Worcester MS.) 
This species is fairly abundant in the islands where it occurs. Several 
nests were found in Mindoro; they were constructed of twisted plant 
tendrils which material gave the nests the appearance of being made 
of spiral springs. The nest was invariably placed in a small tree and 
rested on a horizontal branch at from 2 to 6 meters from the ground. 
Eggs and nestlings were found from April 8 to May 6. 
22. PHAPITRERON OCCIPITALIS Salvadori. 
BASILAN WHITE-EARED PIGEON, 
Phabotreron occipitalis SALVADORI, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1893), 21, 68; 
SHARPE, Hand-List (1899), 1, 55. 
Phapitreron occipitalis MCGREGOR and WorcESTER, Hand-List (1906), 10. 
Basilan (Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, McGregor). 
Adult (sexes similar).-——“Similar to P. leucotis, but the rufous throat 
more vinous, and the occiput of a coppery amethystine, very conspicuous ; 
‘the back and wings of a more greenish hue. ‘Iris light warm brown; bill 
black; feet carmine. (Hverett.) Length, about 230; wing, 127; tail, 
91; bill, 15; tarsus, 20.” (Salvadori.) 
“Tris purple; legs and feet dark pink ; nails brown; bill black. Length, 
250; wing, 126; tail, 86; culmen, 18; tarsus, 18.5; middle toe with claw, 
28. Abundant in Basilan. A deep woods bird.” (Bourns and Wor- 
cester MS.) 
