Birds of the Philijjpine Islands. 



563 



Mr. Whitehead sends several beautiful pairs shot on the 

 Canloon volcano. 



7Q. OsMOTRERON AXILLARIS (G. R. Gray, MS.,j?^e Bonap.); 

 Grant, Ibis, 1895, p. 467. 



We have a fine male of the Philippine Green Pigeon in 

 the collection. 



77. Phabotreron maculipectus, Bourns & Worcester, 

 Occ. Pap. Minnesota Acad. Sci. i. no. i. p. 10 (1894). 



Only a pair of this rare Pigeon have been received. They 

 belong to the large-billed group of the *' Brown Pigeons,^' 

 with metallic purplish-blue mantles. This species has been 

 very accurately described by Messrs. Bourns and Worcester, 

 who also characterize three other large-billed species (P. brun- 

 neiceps, P. frontalis, and P. cinereiceps) met with respectively 

 in Basilau, Cebu, and Tawi Tawi. If the measurement of 

 the culmen of P. frontalis (2 inches) is really correct, this 

 bird must indeed have a gigantic bill ! The present species 

 has a very large culmen, but it measures only 102 inch. 



The large- and small-billed species of this group appear to 

 occur side by side in many of the islands. 



Large-billed Species. Small-billed Species. 



P. mnethystina. Luzon, Samar, 

 Leyte, Panaon, Diiiagat, and 

 North Mindanao. 



P. maculipectus. Negros. 



P. frontalis. Cebu. 



P. brunneicejjs. JBasilan. 



P. ciiiereiceps. Tawi Tawi. 



P. leucotis. Luzon, Mindoro. 



P. nigroriim. Panay, Guimaras, 

 Negros, and Cebu. 



P. occipitalis. Basilan. 



P. brevirostris. Siquijor, Rohol, 

 Leyte, Saniar, Dinagat, Min- 

 danao, and Sulu. 



78. Phabotreron nigrorum, Sharpe; Salvad. Cat. B. Brit, 

 Mus. xxi. p. 68 (1893). 



Mr. Whitehead has forwarded a series of beautiful skins 

 of this small-billed Negros Brown Pigeon, some of which 

 bear the same date as the male of P. maculipectus mentioned 

 above, and were evidently shot in the same locality. 



Prof. Stecre is of opinion that the Brown Pigeons from 

 Bohol, Leyte, and Samar represent two species distinct from 

 P. brevirostris, Tweedd., the type of which was obtained at 



