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41. ZONOPHAPS MINDORENSIS (Whitehead). 
MINDORO ZONE-TAILED PIGEON. 
Carpophaga mindorensis WHITEHEAD, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (1896), ser. 
6, 18, 189; Ibis (1899), 488; Granv, Ibis (1896), 476, pl. 11. 
Zonophaps mindorensis SHARPE, Hand-List (1899), 1, 65; McGrecor and 
WorcesTER, Hand-List (1906), 12. 
Mindoro (Whitehead). 
“Adult male.—Most nearly allied to Carpophaga radiata (Quoy and 
Gaimard) but much larger. Top of head, neck, breast, and rest of under 
parts bluish slate-gray, darkest on belly and under tail-coverts, the latter 
indistinctly edged with rufous; forehead, cheeks, and throat pale whitish 
pink; feathers surrounding eye and forming a patch above ear-coverts, 
blackish gray ; hind neck gradually shading into sooty black on the mantle 
and interscapulary region; scapulars and inner wing-coverts bronze-lake, 
changing to bronze-green on the rest of the wings, rump, and upper tail- 
coverts; primary quills blackish gray, the inner ones glossed on the outer 
web and toward the extremity with metallic green; tail-feathers black, 
glossed with purple and green, and with a wide gray band across the 
middle; under wing-coverts and axillars slightly glossed with bronze. 
Length, 482; exposed culmen, 23; wing, 234; tail, 178; tarsus, 35; middle 
toe with claw, 51. 
“Adult female.—Similar to the male but rather smaller, and the under 
tail-coverts distinctly margined with chestnut. Length, 445; exposed 
culmen, 23; wing, 223: tail, 159; tarsus, 33; middle toe with claw, 46.” 
(Whitehead.) 
This species is much larger than Zonophaps poliocephala from which 
it differs also in the following points: A large black patch on ear-coverts 
and surrounding eye; forehead, cheeks, and chin fawn-color; occiput, 
neck, crop, breast, abdomen, and under tail-coverts gray. 
“Male—tIris bright yellow, with an outer ring of red; orbital skin 
lake-red, with a grayish yellow space between the rings; bill black; feet 
coral-pink. Female: Iris straw-yellow, with an outer ring of golden 
brown; orbital skin orange-yellow, bill olive-brown, black at tip; feet 
salmon-red ; nails black. 
“This species is more often met with singly or in pairs, but sometimes 
as many as four birds were seen together; they were feeding on some 
large purple colored fruits as big as a pigeon’s egg. C. mindorensis, 
like the last species (Zonophaps poliocephala), has a conspicuous fleshy 
ring outside the eyelid. * * * During dull misty weather, especially 
just after daybreak, the penetrating booming note is more often heard 
than on clear days.” (Whitehead.) 
So far as known the species is confined to the highlands of Mindoro 
at an elevation of between 1,200 and 1,800 meters. 
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