594 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 
Although of wide distributigggethis species does not occur in great 
numbers except on the Island of Batan in the Batanes group where many 
individuals are caught with bird-lime and sold to visiting ships. 
Subfamily MACROPYGIN 22. 
Genus MACROPYGIA Swainson, 1837. 
Bill small and rather slender; upper part of tarsus slightly feathered ; 
tail long and greatly graduated; longest and shortest rectrices differing 
in length by about half the wing. 
Species. 
a. Smaller and lighter, without a vinous wash on breast and abdomen; dark 
PULOUSbLO WI SUD OV Gi cerca reece reer ae. he, eee eres or eters ree tenuirostris (p. 52) 
a’, Larger and darker, a faint vinous wash on breast. and abdomen; blackish 
DROW. BD OVC nts sto pe te Rc a eae Ice PE rae Acct cL ic phea (p. 53) 
44. MACROPYGIA TENUIROSTRIS Bonaparte. 
SLENDER-BILLED CUCKOO DOVE. 
Macropygia tenuirostris BONAPARTE, Consp. Gen. Avium (1854), 2, 57; 
SALVADORI, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1893), 21, 346; WHITEHEAD, Ibis 
(1899), 491; SnHarpr, Hand-List (1899), 1, 74; McGrecor and Wor- 
CESTER, Hand-List (1906), 13. 
Macropygia eurycerca TWEEDDALE, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1878), 288 (young). 
Ba-tic’-la-win', Manila; i-bu-oo, Benguet Igorot. 
Balabae (Everett); Basilan (Hverett, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, Me- 
Gregor); Bohol (McGregor); Bongao (Hverett); Leyte (Whitehead); Luzon 
(Meyer, Heriot, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, Whitehead, McGregor) ; Marin- 
duque (Steere Hap.) ; Masbate (Bourns & Worcester) ; Mindanao (Everett, Steere 
Exp., Bourns & Worcester) ; Mindoro (Bourns & Worcester, McGregor, Porter) ; 
Negros (Meyer, Steere, Everett, Keay); Palawan (Lempriere, Whitehead, Platen, 
Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester); Romblon (McGregor); Sibutu (Everett) ; 
Sibuyan (McGregor) ; Sulu (Burbidge) ; Tawi Tawi (Bourns & Worcester). 
Adult male.—Head, sides of neck and breast, and lower parts bright 
cinnamon-rufous, much lighter on throat and chin, darker on flanks, 
under tail-coverts, and rectrices; above including wings and tail dark 
brown; most of the feathers except remiges and rectrices, edged with 
fine rufous dots; feathers of neck covered with irregular vermiculations 
of rufous and blackish brown; sides of neck and of body and crop 
marked with a few black cross-lines; neck and its sides glossed with 
amethystine changing to green; metallic colors extending faintly onto 
back and rump; rectrices from above dark brown, except two outermost 
pairs which are cinnamon-rufous, each crossed by a diagonal black bar; 
next pair similar but more obscurely colored; ‘inner webs of primaries 
edged with cinnamon. Iris of three rings, outermost reddish or crim- 
son, middle ring black, innermost pale straw; skin around eye dirty 
brown; eyelids and basal half of bill crimson; distal end of bill brown; 
