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neck and sides of neck blue or deep violet; wings, back, tail, and its 

 coverts washed with purple; below uniform light brown except middle 

 of abdomen and tail-coverts which are dark buff; tail dark brown with a 

 broad, apical, gray band, the middle pair of rectrices do not show this 

 band from above. Iris light brown; bare skin about eyes dark, dirty 

 red ; bill black ; legs and feet bright carmine ; nails horn-colored. Length, 

 about 255. In a male from Bataan Province, Luzon, the wing is 140; 

 tail, 99 ; culmen, 23 ; tarsus, 20.5. Salvadori gives the following measure- 

 ments : Wing, 146 ; tail, 78 ; bill, 22 ; tarsus, 22. 



"A rare bird in the few islands where it is found. Legs dull pink; 

 iris dark brown; feet dark pink; nails brown; bill black. Length, 292; 

 wing, 145; tail, 97; culmen, 25; tarsus, 21; middle toe with claw, 30." 

 (Bourns and Worcester MS.) 



17. PHAPITRERON CINEREICEPS Bourns and Worcester. 

 GRAY-HEADED PIGEON. 



Phabotreron cinereiceps BOURNS and WORCESTER, Minnesota Acad. Nat. Sci. 



Occ. Papers (1894), 1,8; SHARPE, Hand-List (1899), 1, 55. 

 Phapitreron cinereiceps MCGREGOR and WORCESTER, Hand-List (1906), 10. 



Tawi Tawi (Bourns & Worcester). 



"Adult. Top of head, nape, and sides of neck clear ashy gray, slightly 

 washed with rufous on forehead ; hind neck amethystine as in P. amethys- 

 tina; back, rump, and upper tail-coverts brown with bronze reflections, 

 the tail-coverts slightly more ruddy than back; four outer pairs of tail- 

 feathers dark brown, lighter at base ; two central pairs ruddy brown with 

 bronze reflections; all the tail-feathers with ashy tips which form a 

 distinct terminal band 6 mm. in width; shafts of tail-feathers black; 

 wing-coverts and secondaries uniform with back; primaries dark brown, 

 the first five sharply edged with rusty brown on outer web; a narrow 

 black stripe under eye; sides of face, ear-coverts, fore neck, and breast 

 rich niddy brown, the breast with a slight metallic gloss ; chin and throat 

 lighter; abdomen and thighs fulvous brown; flanks darker with slight 

 metallic wash; under tail-coverts clear ashy gray; shafts of tail-feathers 

 with basal half black, apical half white; under surface of tail nearly 

 black, the terminal gray band distinct and wider than on upper surface, 

 measuring 15 mm. on outer pair of feathers; under wing-coverts and 

 axillars like the flanks ; under surface of quills uniform dark brown. Bill 

 black; legs and feet dirty purplish; nails black; iris in one specimen 

 bright yellow, in another orange-red. Length, 260; wing, 134; tail, 99; 

 culmen, 20; tarsus, 18. Sexes alike." (Bourns and Worcester.) 



This species is known from the types only. 



