50 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 
Genus mam i a Reichenbach, 1852. 
Inner webs of first and second primaries very slightly attenuated ; 
tarsus feathered in front for half its length. This genus is remarkable 
for its coloration; parts of the wings and tail, slate or black, the rest 
of the plumage pale creamy white. 
42. MYRISTICIVORA BICOLOR (Scopoli). 
NUTMEG PIGEON, 
Columba bicolor Scopoxt, Del Flor. et Faun. Insubr. (1786), 2, 94. 
- Carpophaga bicolor Cassin, Ornith. Wilkes Exped. (1858), 265, pl. 28. 
Myristicivora bicolor SaLvapori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1893), 21, 227; 
SHARPE, Hand-List (1899), 1, 67; OatTEs, Cat. Birds’ Eggs (1901), 1, 
86; McGrecor and WorcEsTER, Hand-List (1906), 12. 
Ca-md-su, bd-lud blan’-co, in general use. 
Balabae (Steere, Everett); Bantayan (McGregor) ; Bongao (Hverett) ; Cresta 
de Gallo (McGregor) ; Guimaras (Steere Hap.) ; Malanipa (Murray) ; Marinduque 
(Steere Exp.); Masbate (Bourns & Worcester); Mindanao (Hverett, Koch & 
Schadenberg); Mindoro (Bourns & Worcester, McGregor, Porter); Negros 
(Meyer, Steere Exp.) ; Nipa (Everett); Palawan (Bourns & Worcester, White) ; 
Sakuijok (Hverett); Sibay (McGregor & Worcester); Siquijor (Steere Hezxp., 
Bourns & Worcester, Celestino) ; Sulu (G@uillemard, Bourns & Worcester) ; Tawi 
Tawi (Bourns & Worcester) ; Ticao (McGregor); West Bolod (Mearns). Siam, 
Cochin-China, Malay Peninsula, Tenimber and Indo-Malayan Islands, Andamans, 
Nicobars, and Moluceas. 
Adult (sexes alike).—General color pale creamy white; head and sides 
of head more or less ochraceous-yellow ; wing-coverts and edge of wing 
white; alula, primary-coverts, primaries, and most of the secondaries 
black; outer web of longer primaries mealy; basal half, or more, of 
rectrices and under tail-coverts light yellow, the coverts in some specimens 
spotted with black; end of tail marked with a wide black band which 
is widest on middle rectrices. Iris dark brown; bill dull blue with a black 
tip; eyelids, legs, and feet dark blue; nails black. Length, about 380; 
a male from Ticao measures: Wing, 229; tail, 127; culmen from base, 
25; tarsus, 27; a female from Cresta de Gallo, wing, 229; tail, 127; 
culmen from base, 24; tarsus, 29. 
The camaso, or balud blanco, being a very conspicuous bird, is well 
known to both natives and Spaniards and can not be mistaken for any 
other species of Philippine pigeon. The species is irregular in distribu- 
tion; it is often abundant on a small island and rare, or entirely wanting, 
on a larger neighboring island. Worcester and Bourns found it especially 
abundant in Siquijor. No specimens were taken by Whitehead and it 
is unrecorded from Luzon, although there seems to be no reason why 
it should be absent from that island. 
