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23. PHAPITRERON NIGRORUM Sharpe. 

 NEGROS WHITE-EARED PIGEON. 



Phabotreron nigrorum SHABPE, Trans. Linn. Soc. Zool. (1877), 1, 346, 353; 



Hand-List (1899), 1, 55; SALVADORI, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1893), 



21, 68. 

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



Tuc-mo, Masbate, Ticao, and in general use. 



Cebu (Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, McGregor) ; Guimaras (Meyer, 

 Steere Exp.) ; Masbate (Bourns & Worcester, McGregor) ; Negros (Layard, Steere, 

 Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, Keay) ; Panay (Steere Exp., Bourns & Wor- 

 cester) ; Sibuyan (Bourns & Worcester, McGregor) ; Tablas (Bourns & Worcester) ; 

 Ticao (McGregor). 



Adult. Very similar to Phapitreron leucotis but smaller; chin, sides 

 of face, and upper throat much paler; the white line on auricular region 

 replaced by a wider line of pale fulvous from bill to nape. Bill black; 

 iris gray; legs dark scarlet; nails brown. Four specimens, two of each 

 sex, measure: Wing, 119 to 124 (122):, tail, 90 to 96.5 (94); culmen 

 from base, 17 to 18 (17.5) ; tarsus, 16.5 to 18 (17.5). 



"Very common in the forests of the central Philippines. Iris dark 

 brown; legs and feet dark pink; nails leaden; bill black. Length, 229 

 to 250; wing, 119 to 127; tail, 84 to 96; culmen, 17 to 19; middle toe 

 with claw, 26 to 29." (Bourns and Worcester MS.) 



24. PHAPITRERON BREVIROSTRIS Tweeddale. 

 SHORT-BILLED PIGEON. 



Phabotreron brevirostris TWEEDDALE, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1877), 549; Challenger 

 Report (1881), 2, Zool. pt. 8, pi. 6; SALVADORI, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. 

 (1893), 21, 69; SHARPS, Hand-List (1899), 1, 55. 



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



Dinagat (Everett); Leyte (Everett, Steere Exp., Whitehead) ; Mindanao 

 (Murray, Everett, Koch & Schadenberg, Goodfellow, Clemens, Celestino) ; Samar 

 (Steere Exp., Bourns <C- Worcester, Whitehead) ; Siquijor (Bourns & Worcester] ; 

 Sulu (Guillemard). 



"Similar to P. leucotis, from which it differs in having the forehead 

 and throat grayish fulvous, the occiput constantly amethystine, and the 

 rectrices with a decided amethystine tinge ; it resembles also P. nigrorum, 

 especially as regards the coloring of the forehead and throat, but it differs 

 in having the subocular streak white and the occiput more amethystine. 

 Length, about 240 ; wing, 124; tail, 99 ; bill, 13 ; tarsus, 19." (Sahadori.) 



"It seems to us that there must be something wrong about the Sulu 

 record of P. brevirostris. We obtained no pigeons of the P. leucotis type 

 in Sulu, and the single specimen obtained by us in Tawi Tawi has been 

 lost or destroyed, so that we are unable to identify it, but it would be 

 indeed remarkable if P. brevirostris should give way to P. occipitalis in 



