38 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 
toes. A male from Sibuyan mgggures: Length, 340; wing, 160; tail, 
115; culmen from base, 18; mi@dle toe with claw, 35. A male from 
Basilan: Wing, 148; tail, 115; culmen from base, 18; middle toe with 
claw, 33. A female from Mindoro: Length, 320; wing, 153; tail, 113; 
culmen from base, 19; middle toe with claw, 34. 
Young.—The immature bird differs from the adult in having top of 
head, neck, and sides of face uniform green (or with a few purple 
feathers) and the yellow and purple areas of breast indicated by a few 
scattered feathers of these colors. The first primary is attenuated but 
not so abruptly cut on inner web as it is in the adult. In a young female 
from Sibuyan the bill was dull red at base; tip brown; feet pink; 
nails black. 
27. LEUCOTRERON MARCHEI (Oustalet). 
MARCHE’S FRUIT PIGEON. 
Ptilopus (Rhamphiculus) marchei OuSTALET, Le Naturaliste (1880), 324. 
Ptilopus marchei SALvApoRI, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1893), 21, 75; GRANT, 
Ibis (1895), 1, 468; WHITEHEAD, Ibis (1899), 486. 
Leucotreron marchii SHARPE, Hand-List (1899), 1, 55. 
Leucotreron marchet McGREGOR and WoRCESTER, Hand-List (1906), 10. 
Luzon (Marche, Whitehead, Worcester). 
“Adult male-——Entire top of head dull crimson-red, the same color 
being continued down the sides of the cheeks, on either side of the 
throat; feathers surrounding the eye light red; hind cheek and ear-coverts 
dusky black; back and sides of the. neck and upper part of the breast 
pearl-gray, forming a collar which completely separates the dull crimson 
crown from the dusky black mantle and back; wings lke the back, but 
with green reflections; lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts bronze- 
brown with green reflections; primary quills black, finely edged with pale 
yellow; the two outer secondaries are similarly margined, the remainder 
edged with crimson along the middle of the outer web, the crimson barbs 
being loose and free and forming a large patch on the wing; tail bronze- 
brown, broadly edged with brownish gray, beneath dark gray tipped with 
whitish; chin and middle of throat brownish buff; in the center of the 
gray breast a large patch of bright orange-vermilion washed with lake, 
shading into deep red-lake below; this is followed by a patch of creamy 
white; rest of under parts dull pearly gray, most of the feathers finely 
edged with creamy yellow; under tail-coverts buff, with brownish gray 
centers. ‘Hye: inner ring yellow, outer lake-red; bill at base brick-red, 
tipped with yellow; feet deep coral-red” (Whitehead.) Length, 400; 
wing, 180; tail, 129; tarsus, 32. 
“Adult female.—Similar to the male, but crown of a less crimson 
tinge; lower part of the back, rump, and tail bronze-green,, distinctly 
greener than in the male; upper part of the breast-patch orange-red 
without the crimson wash. Length, 373; wing, 173; tail, 114; tarsus, 29. 
