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Adult (sexes similar).—Top of head, from base of bill to hind border 
of eye, gray; rest of upper parts dark brown, each feather, except rectrices 
and their coverts, edged with metallic green or purple, according to the 
light ; the edging wider on interscapulars; sides of neck similar to back ; 
chin, throat, and sides of face below eyes pure white; a patch of blood- 
red on the stiffish feathers of crop, shading into pale salmon on lower 
breast and abdomen; sides gray; flanks, thighs, and under tail-coverts 
light buff; primaries and secondaries brown, edges reddish brown, basal 
half of inner web of primaries cinnamon; greater and median coverts 
reddish brown with wide gray tips forming two gray bands across each 
wing; lesser coverts gray; two middle pairs of rectrices brown on upper 
surface ; the other rectrices gray, each with a subterminal black bar. 
Length, about 280. A male from Bataan Province, Luzon, measures: 
Wing, 148; tail, 112; culmen from base, 21; tarsus, 35. A female from 
the same province measures: Wing, 145; tail, 102; culmen from base, 
20; tarsus, 32. 
This beautiful dove is often found in the Manila markets; it is a 
well-known favorite of the Spaniards. The species is commonly known 
as punalada which means “stabbed with a dagger.” The Calamianes 
record of this species is doubtless an error. 
52. PHLEGCENAS CRINIGER (Jacquinot and Pucheran). 
HAIR-BREASTED PUNALADA. 
Pampusana criniger JACQUINOT and PUCHERAN, Voy. Pole Sud. (1853), 
3, 118. 
Phlogenas bartletti ScLaATER, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1863), 377, pl. 34. 
Phlogenas crinigera Satvaport, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1893), 21, 587; 
SHarPe, Hand-List (1899), 1, 88; McGrecor and WorcESTER, Hand- 
List (1906), 15. 
Basilan (Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, McGregor) ; Leyte (Whitehead) ; 
Mindanao (Everett, Steere Hep.) ; Samar (Bourns & Worcester). 
Adult male and female.—Head, cheeks, neck, and mantle dark metallic 
green changing to metallic purple; back, rump, and tail-coverts chestnut, 
some of the feathers with amethystine edges; white of chin and throat 
extending backward on each side of a large dark red crop-patch; rest of 
under parts rich buffy brown, lighter on tail-coverts, nearly white on abdo- 
men; alula, primaries, and primary-coverts dark brown; secondaries 
chestnut ; upper lesser coverts brown, edged with metallic green changing 
to amethystine; remainder of lesser coverts broadly tipped with gray ; 
median and greater coverts chestnut, tipped with gray forming wing- 
bands; middle tail-feathers chestnut, the others blackish with wide gray 
tips. A male from Basilan: Length, 280; wing, 153; tail, 110; exposed 
culmen, 19; tarsus, 36. A female from Basilan: Wing, 145; tail, 95; 
exposed culmen, 19; tarsus, 34. 
“Hyes lilac; legs light pink; feet dark pink; nails nearly white; upper 
