GEOPELIA. BT 
48. SPILOPELIA TIGRINA (Temminck and Knip). 
MALAY SPOTTED DOVE. 
Columba tigrina TEMMINCK and Kwnipe, Hist. Nat. des Pig. (1808-11), 1, 
pl. 43. 
Turtur tigrinus SALvavor!, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1893), 21, 440. 
Spilopelia tigrina SHARPE, Hand-List (1899), 1, 80; Oates, Cat. Birds’ 
Eggs (1901), 1, 98; McGrecor and WorcrstER, Hand-List (1906), 14. 
Balabace (Everett); Palawan (Whitehead, McGregor, Celestino, White). Bur- 
ma, Malay Peninsula, Greater and Lesser Sunda Islands, Celebes, Moluccas. 
Adult (sexes alike).—Head dark gray with a vinaceous wash; forehead 
and face lighter; lores with a small black spot; bifurcated feathers of 
neck black with white tips; feathers of upper parts brown with paler, 
dull, rusty edges and dark shaft-stripes, the stripes widest on tertials 
and wing-coverts; distal coverts in each series pearl-gray, outer webs 
white; quills brown with narrow pale edges; lower parts vinous; paler, 
nearly white on chin; abdomen white washed with buff; under tail- 
coverts white; three outer tail-feathers black broadly tipped with white ; 
next pair black, tipped with gray; two central feathers uniform brown, 
next pair black with a broad, terminal, brown band. “‘Iris reddish pearl ; 
bill black; feet pinkish.” (Wallace.) Length, about 300; wing, 145: 
tail, 150; exposed culmen, 17; tarsus, 22. 
Young.—“More rufescent above and beneath; feathers of the hind 
neck of a pale brown with grayish edges.” (Salvadori. ) 
The Malay spotted dove occurs in small numbers as a winter visitant 
to Balabac and Palawan. Whitehead says it is “‘scarce and very local” 
in Palawan; Celestino took several specimens at Puerto Princesa. 
Subfamily GEOPELIIN @. 
Genus GEOPELIA Swainson, 1837. 
Tip of first primary very slender; tail long and greatly graduated, 
and its feathers very slender. This genus contains the smallest Philip- 
pine doves. 
49. GEOPELIA STRIATA (Linneus). 
BARRED GROUND DOVE, 
Columba striata LINN&Us, Syst. Nat. ed 12 (1766), 1, 282. 
Geopelia striata SALVADORI, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1893), 21, 458; SHARPE, 
Hand-List (1899), 1, 80; OaTrEs, Cat. Birds’ Eggs (1901), 1, 101; 
McGrecor and WorcEsTER, Hand-List (1906), 14. 
Ba-to ba-t6 ca-tic’-bi, Manila. 
Lubang (McGregor) ; Luzon (Hverett, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, White- 
head, McGregor); Mindoro (Everett, McGregor); Verde (McGregor). Siam, 
Southern Tenasserim, Malay Peninsula, Greater and Lesser Sunda Islands, Celebes, 
Amboina. 
