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and near the carpal edge a large spot of this color; sides, thighs, and 

 flanks green, thighs grayer, flanks tipped with naples-yellow ; abdomen 

 and under tail-coverts yellowish white, the inner webs of the latter partly 

 green ; center tail-feathers above green, grayish at tip, all the lateral tail- 

 feathers blackish, tipped with gray, washed with green; tail below dusky 

 grayish, terminal bar whitish; quills above black, washed externally with 

 green, finely edged with yellowish; wings below slaty, the first primary 

 much attenuated for about 2 cm. and incurved. 



"Adult female. Above all parrot-green, except for a patch of aster- 

 purple on crown and occiput, and purplish black spots on the scapulars 

 and inner-coverts; breast green, without rose-purple and the dark plum- 

 purple band of the male. 



"Immature male. Closely resembling the female; forehead green with 

 the purple feathers of the crown intermingled; dark purple breast-band 

 commencing to form ; breast grayer than in the female. 



"Young in first plumage. Bright parrot-green, the wing-coverts and 

 secondaries broadly margined with light yellow, the back, rump, and 

 scapulars, and breast more finely margined with yellow ; remaining under 

 parts much' as in the female ; tail tipped with yellowish white ; no purple 

 on head or elsewhere. 



"Wing, 128 to 140 ; tail, 95 ; tarsus, 22 ; culmen from cranium suture, 

 17 to 19." (Meyer and Wiglesworth.) 



Male. "Iris sea-green; bill green, reddish at base; tarsus greenish 

 olive. Length, 295; wing, 144." (Salvadori.) 



Genus SPILOTEEEON" Salvadori, 1882. 



First primary slightly attenuated on its distal third; tail square; 

 tarsus feathered nearly to the toes. 



30. SPILOTRERON BANGUEYENSIS (A.B.Meyer). 

 MEYER'S FRUIT PIGEON, 



Ptilopus bangueyensis MEYER, Jour, fur Orn. (1891), 70; SALVADORI, Cat. 



Birds Brit. Mus. (1893), 21, 143. 

 Spilotreron bangueyensis SHARPE, Hand-List (1899), 1, 61; MCGREGOR and 



WORCESTER, Hand-List (1906), 11. 

 Ptilopus purpureinucha MEYER, Jour, fur Orn. (1891), 71. 



Basilan (Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, McGregor) ; Bongao 

 (Everett) ; Cagayan Sulu (Mearns) ; Mindanao (Everett, Steere Exp.) ; Palawan 

 (Lempiere, Whitehead) ; Sibutu (Everett)-, Sulu (Burbidge, Guillemard, Bourns 

 d- Worcester) ; Tawi Tawi (Bourns & 'Worcester). Banguey. 



Adult male. Bright leaf -green, mantle slightly yellowish; head, neck, 

 and throat pearly gray; chin and upper throat yellow; a large patch on 

 occiput and hind neck black ; lower abdomen and short tail-coverts bright 

 yellow; longer tail-coverts bright carmine, narrowly tipped with yellow; 

 secondaries and greater coverts very narrowly edged with yellow. Eyelids, 



