MACROPYGIA. ae 
legs and feet bright crimson; nails brown. Length, about 394; three 
males average, wing, 189; tail, 200; exposed culmen, 16; tarsus, 23. 
Adult female-—Nearly like the male but with very little if any 
metallic gloss; neck and its sides black, barred with light cinnamon; 
crop and lower throat more or less barred and vermiculated with black. 
Young.—A young bird from Sibuyan with tail less than half grown 
differs from the adult female in the throat- and breast-feathers being 
blackish brown, edged with rufous, and in having bars of upper parts 
more sharply cut, being produced by solid colors rather than by dots; 
the rectrices seen from above have narrow rufous tips and from below, 
each is crossed by a narrow, subterminal gray line. 
The adult plumage is here described from a pair of birds taken at 
Irisan, Benguet Province, on May 1, 1903. That these were breeding 
birds was shown by disection and was noted on the tags. If the rusty 
edges are absent from the wing-coverts of fully adult birds then it must 
require two or possibly three years for. them to attain that plumage. 
“Exceedingly common in some localities. Frequents open ground 
surrounded by patches of second growth. When flushed it frequently 
alights in trees. Eyes yellow; legs and feet red. Length, 370; culmen, 
19; wing, 165; tail, 184; tarsus, 22; middle toe with claw, 33.” (Bourns 
and Worcester MS.) 
“Common among the mountains of north Luzon, and found nesting on 
the summit of Monte Data, where the large tracts of dead bracken ferns 
afford it good protection. I saw a young one nearly ready to fly on 28th 
of January on this mountain. This dove is also plentiful in the lowland 
forests, and is distributed throughout the Archipelago.” (Whitehead.) 
45. MACROPYGIA PHAEA McGregor. 
DARK CUCKOO DOVE. 
Macropygia phea McGrecor, Bull. Philippine Mus. (1904), 4, 9; Phil. Jour. 
Sei. (1907), 2, see. A, 338; McGrecor and WorceEsTER, Hand-List 
(1906), 13. 
A-la-gd-dang, Calayan. 
Batan (McGregor) ; Calayan (McGregor). 
Adult—Similar to Macropygia tenuirostris but larger and darker; 
cinnamon edgings on inner primary webs and rufous edging of wing- 
coverts narrower or obsolete. The sexes differ as in the preceding 
species. 
Male (type).—Bill brown with reddish base; legs dark reddish brown ; 
nails brown; iris of three rings, outer crimson, middle black, inner 
straw. Length, 413; wing, 198; tail, 198; exposed culmen, 18; tarsus, 24. 
Female (type).—Colors of bill, legs, and eyes as in the male. Length, 
406; wing, 196; tail, 195; exposed culmen, 18; tarsus, 22. 
