52 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 



Although of wide distribution, this species does not occur in great 

 numbers except on the Island of Batan in the Batanes group where many 

 individuals are caught with bird-lime and sold to visiting ships. 



Subfamily MACROPYGINyE. 

 Genus MACROPYGIA Swainson, 1837. 



Bill small and rather slender ; upper part of tarsus slightly feathered ; 

 tail long and greatly graduated; longest and shortest rectrices differing 

 in length by about half the wing. 



Species. 



a 1 . Smaller and lighter, without a vinous wash on breast and abdomen ; dark 

 rufous-brown above tenuirostris (p. 52) 



a 2 . Larger and darker, a faint vinous wash on breast and abdomen; blackish 

 brown above phaea (p. 53) 



44. MACROPYGIA TENUIROSTRIS Bonaparte. 

 BLENDER-BILLED CUCKOO DOVE. 



Macropygia tenuirostris BONAPARTE, Consp. Gen. Avium (1854), 2, 57; 

 SALVADOBI, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1893), 21, 346; WHITEHEAD, Ibis 

 (1899), 491; SHARPE, Hand-List (1899), 1, 74; MCGREGOR and WOR- 

 CESTER, Hand-List (1906), 13. 



Macropygia eurycerca TWEEDDALE, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1878), 288 (young). 



Ba-tic'-la-uin', Manila; i-bu-oo, Benguet Igorot. 



Balabac (Everett) ; Basilan (Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns d Worcester, Mc- 

 Gregor) ; Bohol (McGregor); Bongao (Everett) ; Leyte (Whitchead) ; Luzon 

 (Meyer, Heriot, Steere Exp., Bourns d Worcester, Whitehead, McGregor) ; Marin- 

 duque (Steere Exp.) ; Masbate (Bourns & Worcester) ; Mindanao (Everett, Stfere 

 Exp., Bourns & Worcester) ; Mindoro (Bourns & Worcester, McGregor, Porter) ; 

 Negros (Meyer, Steere, Everett, Keay) ; Palawan (Lempriere, Whitehead, Platen, 

 Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester)-, Romblon (McGregor); Sibutu (Everett) ; 

 Sibuyan (McGregor) ; Sulu (Burbidge) ; Tawi Tawi (Bourns d Worcester). 



Adult male. Head, sides of neck and breast, and lower parts bright 

 cinnamon-rufous, much lighter on throat and chin, darker on flanks, 

 under tail-coverts, and rectrices; above including wings and tail dark 

 brown; most of the feathers except remiges and rectrices, edged with 

 fine rufous dots; feathers of neck covered with irregular vermiculations 

 of rufous and blackish brown; sides of neck and of body and crop 

 marked with a few black cross-lines; neck and its sides glossed with 

 amethystine changing to green; metallic colors extending faintly onto 

 back and rump; rectrices from above dark brown, except two outermost 

 pairs which are cinnamon-rufous, each crossed by a diagonal black bar; 

 next pair similar but more obscurely colored; inner webs of primaries 

 edged with cinnamon. Iris of three rings, outermost reddish or crim- 

 son, middle ring black, innermost pale straw; skin around eye dirty 

 brown; eyelids and basal half of bill crimson; distal end of bill brown; 



