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23. PHAPITRERON NIGRORUM Sharpe. 
NEGROS WHITE-EARED PIGEON, 
Phabotreron nigrorum SHARPE, Trans. Linn. Soe. Zool. (1877), 1, 346, 353: 
Hand-List (1899), 1, 55; Satvapori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1893), 
21, 68. 
Phapitreron nigrorum McGrercor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 10. 
Tuc-mo, Masbate, Ticao, and in general use. 
Cebu (Hverett, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, McGregor) ; Guimaras (Meyer, 
Steere Exp.) ; Masbate (Bourns € Worcester, McGregor) ; Negros (Layard, Steere, 
Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, Keay); Panay (Steere Exp., Bow'ns & Wor- 
cester) ; Sibuyan (Bourns & Worcester, McGregor) ; Tablas (Bourns & Worcester) ; 
Ticao (McGregor). 
Adult.—Very similar to Phapitreron leucotis but smaller; chin, sides 
of face, and upper throat much paler; the white line on auricular region 
replaced by a wider line of pale fulvous from bill to nape. Bill black; 
iris gray; legs dark scarlet; nails brown. Four specimens, two of each 
sex, measure: Wing, 119 to 124 (122); tail, 90 to 96.5 (94); culmen 
from base, 17 to 18 (17.5) ; tarsus, 16.5 to 18 (17.5). 
“Very common in the forests of the central Philippines. Iris dark 
brown; legs and feet dark pink; nails leaden; bill black. Length, 229 
to 250; wing, 119 to 127; tail, 84 to 96; culmen, 17 to 19; middle toe 
with claw, 26 to 29.” (Bourns and Worcester MS.) 
24. PHAPITRERON BREVIROSTRIS Tweeddale. 
SHORT-BILLED PIGEON. 
Phabotreron brevirostris. TWEEDDALE, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1877), 549; Challenger 
Report (1881), 2, Zool. pt. 8, pl. 6; Satvaport, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. 
(1893), 21, 69; SHarpe, Hand-List (1899), 1, 55. 
Phapitreron brevirostris MCGREGOR and WorcESTER, Hand-List (1906), 10. 
Dinagat (Hverett); Leyte (Everett, Steere Exp., Whitehead) ; Mindanao 
(Murray, Everett, Koch & Schadenberg, Goodfellow, Clemens, Celestino) ; Samar 
(Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, Whitehead) ; Siquijor (Bourns & Worcester) ; 
Sulu (Guillemard). 
“Similar to P. leucotis, from which it differs in having the forehead 
and throat grayish fulvous, the occiput constantly amethystine, and the 
rectrices with a decided amethystine tinge; it resembles also P. nigrorum, 
especially as regards the coloring of the forehead and throat, but it differs 
in having the subocular streak white and the occiput more amethystine. 
Length, about 240; wing, 124; tail, 99; bill, 13; tarsus, 19.” (Salvadori.) . 
“Tt seems to us that there must be something wrong about the Sulu 
record of P. brevirostris. We obtained no pigeons of the P. leucotis type 
in Sulu, and the single specimen obtained by us in Tawi Tawi has been 
lost or destroyed, so that. we are unable to identify it, but it would be 
indeed remarkable if P. brevirostris should give way to P. occipitalis in 
