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legs and feet bright crimson; nails brown. Length, about 394; three 

 males average, wing, 189; tail, 200; exposed culmen, 16; tarsus, 23. 



Adult female, Nearly like the male but with very little if any 

 metallic gloss; neck and its sides black, barred with light cinnamon; 

 crop and lower throat more or less barred and vermiculated with black. 



Young. A young bird from Sibuyan with tail less than half grown 

 differs from the adult female in the throat- and breast-feathers being 

 blackish brown, edged with rufous, and in having bars of upper parts 

 more sharply cut, being produced by solid colors rather than by dots; 

 the rectrices seen from above have narrow rufous tips and from below, 

 each is crossed by a narrow, subterminal gray line. 



The adult plumage is here described from a pair of birds taken at 

 Irisan, Benguet Province, on May 1, 1903. That these were breeding 

 birds was shown by disection and was noted on the tags. If the rusty 

 edges are absent from the wing-coverts of fully adult birds then it must 

 require two or possibly three years for them to attain that plumage. 



"Exceedingly common in some localities. Frequents open ground 

 surrounded by patches of second growth. When flushed it frequently 

 alights in trees. Eyes yellow; legs and feet red. Length, 370; culmen, 

 19 ; wing, 165 ; tail, 184 ; tarsus, 22 ; middle toe with claw, 33." (Bourns 

 and Worcester MS.) 



"Common among the mountains of north Luzon, and found nesting on 

 the summit of Monte Data, where the large tracts of dead bracken ferns 

 afford it good protection. I saw a young one nearly ready to fly on 28th 

 of January on this mountain. This dove is also plentiful in the lowland 

 forests, and is distributed throughout the Archipelago." (Whitehcad.) 



45. MACROPYGIA PH/EA McGregor. 

 DARK CUCKOO DOVE. 



Macropygia phcea MCGREGOR, Bull. Philippine Mus. (1904), 4, 9; Phil. Jour. 

 Sci. (1907), 2, sec. A, 338; MCGREGOR and WORCESTER, Hand-List 

 (1906), 13. 



A-la-gd-dang, Calayan. 



Batan (McGregor); Calayan (McGregor). 



Adult. Similar to Macropygia tenuirostris but larger and darker; 

 cinnamon edgings on inner primary webs and rufous edging of wing- 

 coverts narrower or obsolete. The sexes differ as in the preceding 

 species. 



Male (type). Bill brown with reddish base; legs dark reddish brown; 

 nails brown; iris of three rings, outer crimson, middle black, inner 

 straw. Length, 413; wing, 198 ; tail, 198 ; exposed culmen, 18 ; tarsus, 24. 



Female (type). Colors of bill, legs, and eyes as in the male. Length, 

 406; wing, 196; tail, 195; exposed culmen, 18; tarsus, 22. 



