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and near the carpal edge a large spot of this color; sides, thighs, and 
flanks green, thighs grayer, flanks tipped with naples-yellow; abdomen 
and under tail-coverts yellowish white, the inner webs of the latter partly 
green; center tail-feathers above green, grayish at tip, all the lateral tail- 
feathers blackish, tipped with gray, washed with green; tail below dusky 
grayish, terminal bar whitish; quills above black, washed externally with 
green, finely edged with yellowish; wings below slaty, the first primary 
much attenuated for about 2 cm. and incurved. 
“Adult female.—Above all parrot-green, except for a patch of aster- 
purple on crown and occiput, and purplish black spots on the scapulars 
and inner-coverts; breast green, without rose-purple and the dark plum- 
purple band of the male. 
“Immature male.—Closely resembling the female; forehead green with 
the purple feathers of the crown intermingled; dark purple breast-band 
commencing to form; breast grayer than in the female. 
“Young in first plumage——Bright parrot-green, the wing-coverts and 
secondaries broadly margined with light yellow, the back, rump, and 
scapulars, and breast more finely margined with yellow; remaining under 
parts much as in the female; tail tipped with yellowish white; no purple 
on head or elsewhere. 
“Wing, 128 to 140; tail, 95; tarsus, 22; culmen from cranium suture, 
17 to 19.” (Meyer and Wiglesworth.) 
Male—‘“TIris sea-green; bill green, reddish at base; tarsus greenish 
olive. Length, 295; wing, 144.” (Salvadori.) 
Genus SPILOTRERON Salvadori, 1882. 
First primary slightly attenuated on its distal third; tail square; 
tarsus feathered nearly to the toes. 
30. SPILOTRERON BANGUEYENSIS (A. B. Meyer). 
MEYER’S FRUIT PIGEON, 
Ptilopus bangueyensis Meyer, Jour. fiir Orn. (1891), 70; SALvaportI, Cat. 
Birds Brit. Mus. (1893), 21, 143. 
Npilotreron bangueyensis SHARPE, Hand-List (1899), 1, 61; McGrecor and 
Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 11. 
Ptilopus purpureinucha Meyer, Jour. fiir Orn. (1891), 71. 
Basilan (Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, McGregor); Bongao 
(Everett) ; Cagayan Sulu (Mearns) ; Mindanao (Everett, Steere Exp.) ; Palawan 
(Lempiere, Whitehead) ; Sibutu (HLverett); Sulu (Burbidge, Guillemard, Bourns 
& Worcester) ; Tawi Tawi (Bourns € Worcester). Banguey. 
Adult male——Bright leaf-green, mantle slightly yellowish ; head, neck, 
and throat pearly gray; chin and upper throat yellow; a large patch on 
occiput and hind neck black; lower abdomen and short tail-coverts bright 
yellow; longer tail-coverts bright carmine, narrowly tipped with yellow; 
secondaries and greater coverts very narrowly edged with yellow. Eyelids, 
