476 On the Birds of the Philippine Islands. 



distributed tlii'oughout the islands, and seems to have been 

 fairly common in the low forest of Mindoro, for the present 

 collection contains splendid specimens of both sexes. Mr. 

 Whitehead has only once before met with this species, on 

 hia first trip to Mt. Arajat, in Central Luzon. 



46. LoRicuLUs MiNDORENSiSj Stccrc, List Birds &Mamm. 

 Philippines, p. 6 (1890) ; Salvad. Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xx. 

 p. 526 (1891). 



I have compared a beautiful pair of the Mindoro Lori- 

 quet with Prof. Steere's types and find them identical. 



47. Phabotreron leucotis (Temm.) ; Grant, Ibis, 1895, 

 p. 467. 



The White-eared Brown Pigeon is found in Mindoro as 

 well as in Luzon, and a female example was shot on the 

 26th of December. 



48. Carpophaga poliocephala (G. R. Gray) ; Grant, Ibis, 

 1895, p. 264. 



A single male example of the Green-breasted Bar-tailed 

 Fruit-Pigeon was shot in the highlands of Mount Dulangan ; 

 it is the first time that this species has been recorded from 

 Mindoro. 



49. Carpophaga mindorensis. (Plate XL) 

 Carpophaga mindorensis, Whitehead, Ann. & Mag. N. H. 



(6) xviii. p. 189 (1896). 



This magnificent species of Fruit-Pigeon belongs to the 

 group of Carpophaga characterized by having a wide grey 

 band across the tail. The subdivision has been called 

 Zonophaps [cf. Salvad. Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxi. p. 207 (1893)], 

 and though, of course, the great Mindoro Bar-tailed Fruit- 

 Pigeon is allied to C. poliocephala, it is really most nearly 

 related to C. radiata (Quoy & Gaimard) from Celebes and 

 Sanghir; in fact the latter may be regarded as a small 

 representative form of the present species. In addition to 

 the disparity in size, there are marked specific differences ; 

 for instance, the vent and under tail-coverts are chestnut in 

 the Celebean bird, whereas in the Mindoro giant they are 



