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rectrices below, brown with gray tips; remainder of under parts dull 

 green. Iris bright red; bill bright yellow; base of lower mandible, and 

 feet dark crimson ; nails dark brown. Length, 280 to 305 ; measurements 

 of three specimens give: Wing, 144 to 145; tail, 104 to 105; culmen 

 from base, 19 to 20; tarsus, 18 to 20. 



Adult female. Forehead blue-gray; chin black; throat and breast 

 green; dark chestnut pectoral-band, and other parts, as in the male. A 

 female from Sibuyan has the wing, 145, and tail, 104; a female from 

 Calayan is larger; wing, 157; tail, 114. 



Young. Green, chin cinnamon ; pectoral-band wanting or indicated by 

 a few chestnut feathers ; abdomen white or washed with buff ; under tail- 

 coverts slightly paler than in the adult. 



Leclancher's pigeon is generally found in forest and, although widely 

 distributed, it does not occur in great numbers, except when feeding in 

 fruit trees; it appears to be strictly arboreal in habits. Specimens from 

 Camiguin, Calayan, and Batan are considerably larger than specimens 

 from more southern islands. The nest as observed in Camiguin, north 

 of Luzon, was a slight platform of twigs placed on a horizontal branch at 

 from 1.5 to 4.5 meters from the ground. Four nests contained but one 

 egg each. Three eggs are white in color and measure, respectively: 35 

 by 23, 35 by 25, and 31 by 24. 



Genus LAMPROTRERON Bonaparte, 1854. 



Lamprotreron is distinguished from all other Philippine genera by 

 having the breast-feathers bifurcated, as if the tip of the shaft had been 

 cut off of each feather. 



29. LAMPROTRERON TEMMINCKI (Prevost and Des Murs). 

 TEMMINCK'S FRUIT PIGEON. 



Kurukuru temminckii PBEVOST and DES MUBS, Voy. Venus, Zool. (1849), 



234. 

 Ptilopus temmincki SALVADOBI, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1893), 21, 115; 



MEYEB and WIGLESWOBTH, Bds. Celebes (1898), 2, 613. 

 Lamprotreron temmincki SHABPE, Hand-List (1899), 1, 58; McGBEGOB and 



WOBCESTEB, Hand-List (1906), 11. 

 Ptilopus formosus GUILLEMABD, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1885), 269. 



Sulu (Quillemard). Celebes. 



"Adult male. General color above parrot-green, the inner wing-coverts, 

 scapulars, and inner quills with an oval black spot near the ends ; entire 

 head above aster-purple; hind neck and sides of neck dragon's-blood-red, 

 shading off into the green of the mantle ; sides of occiput and ear-coverts 

 green, becoming gray on malar region, chin, throat, and jugulum; the 

 upper breast rose-purple, the feathers on chest and jugulum forked at 

 the tip (as if the middle part of the web had been cut out with scissors) ; 

 passing on lower breast into a broad band of blackish plum-purple; on 



