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PHAPITRERON SAMARENSIS, new species. 

 SAMAR BROWN PIGEON. 



Type.— Cat No. 16109G, U.S.N.M. Adult female. Collected in 

 March, 1888, on the island of Samar, Philippine I.slands, by Dr. F. S. 

 Bourn.s. 



Characters. — Resembling Phapitreron brevirostris, but with fore- 

 head, chin, and throat Avhiter than in P. allnfrons McGregor. From 

 P. hrevirostris it is readily distinguishable by the white forehead, 

 chin, and upi^er throat, also hj the much greater amount of coppery 

 amethystine reflections on the crown, breast, and upper back, and 

 by the usual absence of green reflections on the side of the hind head 

 below the suborbital white stripe ; and the under parts are much paler. 

 From P. alhifroiis it may be at once distinguished by the different 

 color of the under parts, which lack the olivaceous-gray on the brea.st, 

 and by its more ochraceous abdomen ; also the coppery reflections on 

 the breast and upper back of P. samarcnsis are entirely absent in P. 

 alhifrons. 



Measurements of type (from well-made skin of female). — Total 

 length, 230 mm.; wing, 124; tail, 95; culmen and cere (chord), 14; 

 tarsus, 11) ; middle toe Avith claw, 26. " Eyes pink. Feet, base of 

 mandible, and around eyes, dark purple. Tip of bill black. Egg 

 taken from ovary." (P^. S. Bourns.) 



MeaHtrrcments of adidt male (Cat. No. KJlOOo, U.S.N.M., collected 

 in April, 1888, on the island of Samar, by Dr. F. S. Bourns).— 

 Wing, 129 nnn. ; tail, 95; culmen and cere (chord), 14.5; tarsus, 20; 

 middle toe with claw, 27. 



MUSCADIVORES PALMASENSIS, new species. 

 PALMAS ISLAND FRUIT-EATING PIGEON. 



Type.—C^i. No. 200839, U.S.N.M. Adult male. Collected Jan- 

 uary 21, 190('), on Palmas Island, in the Celebes Sea, Philippine 

 Islands, by Edgar A. Mearns. (Original number, 13889.) 



Characters. — Closely related to Muscadivores piclcerhuji from 

 Mangsee Island, north of Borneo, on the west side of the Sulu Sea ; 

 also to Muscadivores langhornei Mearns, from West Bolod Island, 

 southeast of the Sulu Sea and near the island of Basilan. From the 

 type of picheringi (Cat. No. 15732 U.S.N.M.) it differs in being 

 paler, with nnich less vinaceous color on the chin, throat, breast, 

 and under tail-coverts. The wing is 10 mm. shorter. From lang- 

 hornei^ which it resembles more closely in the coloration of the under 

 parts, it can be distinguished at a glance by the dark color of the 

 mantle, rump, and upper tail-coverts. 



Adidt male (type, killed January 21). — Head, neck, upper back, 

 and under parts, lilac-gray, purest on the upper side of neck and 



