64 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 
55. PHLEGCENAS PLATENAZA Blasius. 
MINDORO PUNALADA. 
Phlogenas platene “BLASIuUS,’ HARTERT, Jour. fiir Ornith. (1891) 302; 
SALVApDORI, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1893), 21, 588; SHARPE, Hand-List 
(1899), 1, 88; McGrecor and WorcEstTER, Hand-List (1906), 15. 
Mindoro (Platen, Schmacker, Bourns & Worcester, McGregor). 
Adult (sexes similar).—Head and neck dark metallic green changing 
to amethystine ; scapulars, back, and rump chestnut, many of the feathers 
edged with metallic green; below white becoming faint buff or ochraceous 
on abdomen, flanks, and tail-coverts; finely speckled with gray on sides 
of breast ; red crop-patch very small; alula, primaries, and primary-coverts 
brown; secondaries and coverts chestnut, except some of the lesser series 
which are blackish with broad light gray tips forming a conspicuous 
patch ; upper tail-coverts and middle pair of tail-feathers gray, remainder 
of rectrices blackish with gray tips. Iris purple; bill black; legs dark 
rose-color; nails gray. Length, 275 to 285. A male measures: Wing, 
150; tail, 106; exposed culmen, 20; tarsus, 34. A female: Wing, 141; 
tail, 100; exposed culmen, 20; tarsus, 34. 
Two nests with eggs were collected on the Baco River in 1905. The 
first was taken April 28, and was placed 1.5 meters from the ground on 
a horizontal limb of a small tree. The two eggs were advanced in incuba- 
tion. They measure 30 by 22 and 29 by 22. The second nest was 
similarly placed in a shrub. ‘The nest measures 200 by 280 mm. across 
the top and is very shallow, the outside depth being about 50 mm. On 
the bottom are a number of rather large leaves and sticks, topped by fine 
rootlets and spiral plant-tendrils. The materials were poorly put together 
so that a large part of the bottom fell off when the nest was removed 
from its site. The two eggs were well incubated. They measure 29 by 22 
and 30 by 21. Their color is light cream. 
“Common in the old forests in the interior of Mindoro, but very diffi- 
cult to shoot. We found its nest in a tangle of vines about two meters 
above the ground. The female flew from the nest to the ground and 
pretended to be lame. The nest, which contained two young birds, was 
found in the month of May.” (Bourns and Worcester MS.) 
Subfamily CALGENADIN. 
Genus CALGENAS Gray, 1840. 
The genus Calenas is distinguished by having the feathers of the neck 
long, narrow, and pointed; bill deep, with a knob on the base of culmen ; 
legs and feet large, covered with large transverse plates; tail short and 
square. 
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