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"Young male. The whole of the upper parts is brownish bronze 

 shot with green; the dull crimson of the top of the head and the free 

 crimson webs of the secondaries are just beginning to make their ap- 

 pearance; the whole of the feathers of the chest and upper breast are 

 gray, widely tipped with bronze-green, the only patches of pure gray 

 feathers being visible on each side of the neck. The orange-red breast- 

 patch is represented by a deep orange feather in the middle of the chest 

 and some dark carmine feathers. Otherwise the rest of the plumage is 

 much like that of the adult." (Grant.} 



Marche's fruit pigeon was described in 1880 from a single specimen 

 which remained unique for fifteen years when Whitehead rediscovered 

 the species in Lepanto. So far as we at present know, this species is 

 confined to this subprovince and the neighboring subprovince of Bontoc. 

 The Igorots say that at certain seasons of the year these birds become 

 very fat and heavy and that they are then taken by pursuing them 

 until they are exhausted. This account is probably correct as the speci- 

 mens seen in the possession of the Igorots are not injured, while birds 

 taken in snares or with bird-lime are seldom fit for specimens. This 

 species may be recognized at once by the large red patch on the second- 

 aries. In 1903 a pigeon, probably of this species, was killed in Bontoc 

 by the Hon. Dean C. Worcester but the skin was lost. 



28. LEUCOTRERON LECLANCHERI (Bonaparte). 

 BLACK-CHINNED FRUIT PIGEON. 



Trerolcema leclancheri BONAPARTE, Compt. Rend. (1855), 41, 247. 

 Leucotrer&n gironieri WALDEN, Trans. Zool. Soc. (1875), 9, 213, pi. 34, 



fig. 1. 



Ptilopus leclancheri SALVADORI, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1893), 21, 79. 

 Leucotreron leclancheri SHARPS, Hand-List (1899), 1, 56; MCGREGOR and 



WORCESTER, Hand-List (1906), 10. 



Ca-pil'-la, Manila. 



Bantayan (McGregor) ; Batan (McGregor) ; Boliol (McGregor) ; Cagayancillo 

 (McGregor) ; Calamianes (Bourns & Worcester) ; Calayan (McGregor) ; Camiguin 

 N. (McGregor) ; Catanduanes (Whitehead) ; Cebu (Burger) ; Guimaras (Meyer) ; 

 Lubang (McGregor) ; Luzon (Meyer, Steere Exp., Whitehead, McGregor) ; Min- 

 doro (McGregor, Porter) ; Negros (Everett, Steere Exp.) ; Palawan (Everett, 

 Platen, White)', Panay (Meyer); Romblon (McGregor); Samar (Whitehead); 

 Semirara (Worcester) ; Sibuyan (McGregor) ; Tablas (Bourns & Worcester). 



Adult male. Chin black; head, neck, throat, and breast pearl-gray, 

 washed with dull green on occiput and hind neck, wa'shed with ocherous 

 yellow on throat and crop ; remainder of upper parts green, brightest on 

 wings and tail, the latter tipped with dull yellowish brown; primaries 

 edged with white near their tips; some of the secondaries edged with 

 ocherous-yellow ; behind the gray of breast a dark chestnut band, blackish 

 on its anterior border; middle of abdomen white, washed with cinnamon 

 or in some specimens with yellowish buff; under tail-coverts cinnamon; 



