46 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 
Species. 
a’, Chin, throat, and upper part of *.. gray or black. 
6+. Band on fore breast light slate-gray..................2..2..-21011cs0scesssecee carola (p. 46) 
be Band oni fore breast blacks si 20 te eee nigrorum (p. 47) 
a. Chin, throat, and upper part of chest nearly pure white.... mindanensis (p. 47) 
37. PTILOCOLPA CAROLA (Bonaparte). 
GRAY-BREASTED FRUIT PIGEON. 
Carpophaga carola BONAPARTE, Consp. Gen. Avium (1854), 2, 34; SaLva- 
port, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1893), 21, 206. 
Ptilocolpa carola GRANT, Ibis (1895), 117; WHITEHEAD, Ibis (1899), 489; 
SHARPE, Hand-List (1899), 1, 65; McGrecor and WorceEstTER, Hand- 
List (1906), 12. 
Ptilocolpa griseipectus BONAPARTE, Consp. Gen. Avium (1854), 2, 34. 
Luzon ((evers, Heriot, Whitehead, McGregor) ; Mindoro (Steere Exp., White- 
head, McGregor, Porter); Mindanao (Everett, Koch & Schadenberg) ; * Sibuyan 
(McGregor). 
Adult male.—All of head, neck all around, back and interscapulars 
light gray; chin white; lower throat delicate light gray, bordered behind 
by a narrow white band and this followed by a wide, dark gray band on 
fore breast; lower breast, abdomen, and flanks dark chestnut, darker and 
slightly purplish on breast ; sides gray ; alula, primaries, and their coverts, 
dark, glossy blue-green; secondaries blue-green, mealy along outer edges; 
wing-coverts and inner secondaries canescent, the smaller feathers each 
with a dark spot at tip; rump-feathers canescent with glossy green cen- 
ters and light purple edges; rectrices and upper coverts glossy blue-green, 
shafts black ; rectrices black below, except outermost pair which are brown 
with white shafts. Iris white mottled with pink; bill rose-pink, the 
“nail” white; legs rose-pink, nails brown. Two males from Benguet, 
Luzon, average: Length, 356; wing, 216; tail, 131; culmen from base, 
22; tarsus, 22. 
Adult female——Somewhat similar to the male but without a white 
band across the crop; fore breast light purple dulled by its slightly 
mealy look; held toward the light, it becomes green and away from the 
light, shghtly metallic copper-red washed with vinous; rest of under parts 
much lighter chestnut than in male; wing-coverts glossy green, lesser 
and median coverts with blue spots at tips; interscapulars vinous and 
slightly mealy; lower back and rump green with touches of deep blue. 
The following notes are from an adult female taken in Benguet, Luzon: 
[ris with an inner white ring and outer pinkish ring; eyelids dirty 
white; bare skin about eyes blue-gray; bill deep rose-red, tip white; legs 
and feet rose-red, soles yellowish; nails brown. 
* Tt is possible that all the records of Ptilocolpa for Mindanao should be referred 
to P. mindanensis. 
