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48. SPILOPELIA TIGRINA (Temminck and Knip). 

 MALAY SPOTTED DOVE. 



Columba tigrina TEMMINCK and KNIP, Hist. Nat. des Pig. (1808-11), 1, 



pi. 43. 



Turtur tigrinus SALVADOBI, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1893), 21, 440. 

 Spilopelia tigrina SHARPE, Hand-List (1899), 1, 80; GATES, Cat. Birds.' 



Eggs (1901), 1, 98; McGKEGOR and WORCESTER, Hand-List (1906), 14. 



Balabac (Everett); Palawan (Whitehead, McGregor, Celestino, White). Bur- 

 ma, Malay Peninsula, Greater and Lesser Sunda Islands, Celebes, Moluccas. 



Adult (sexes alike). Head dark gray with a vinaceous wash; forehead 

 and face lighter; lores with a small black spot; bifurcated feathers of 

 neck black with white tips; feathers of upper parts brown with paler, 

 dull, rusty edges and dark shaft-stripes, the stripes widest on tertials 

 and wing-coverts; distal coverts in eacli series pearl-gray, outer webs 

 white; quills brown with narrow pale edges; lower parts vinous; paler, 

 nearly white on chin; abdomen white washed with buff; under tail- 

 coverts white; three outer tail-feathers black broadly tipped with white; 

 next pair black, tipped with gray ; two central feathers uniform brown, 

 next pair black with a broad, terminal, brown band. "Iris reddish pearl ; 

 bill black; feet pinkish." (Wallace.) Length, about 300; wing, 145; 

 tail, 150; exposed culmen, 17; tarsus, 22. 



Young. "More rufescent above and beneath; feathers of the hind 

 neck of a pale brown with grayish edges." (Salvadori.) 



The Malay spotted dove occurs in small numbers as a winter visitant 

 to Balabac and Palawan. Whitehead says it is "scarce and very local" 

 in Palawan ; Celestino took several specimens at Puerto Princesa. 



Subfamily GEOPELIIN^E. 

 Genus GEOPELIA Swainson, 1837. 



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Tip of first primary very slender; tail long and greatly graduated, 

 and its feathers very slender. This genus contains the smallest Philip- 

 pine doves. 



49. GEOPELIA STRIATA (Linnaus). 



BARRED GROUND DOVE. 



Columba striata LINN^US, Syst. Nat. ed 12 (1766), 1, 282. 



Geopelia striata SALVADORI, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1893), 21, 458; SHARPE, 



Hand-List (1899), 1, 80; GATES, Cat. Birds' Eggs (1901), T, 101; 



MCGREGOR and WORCESTER, Hand : List (1906), 14. 



Ba-to ba-to ca-tic'-bi, Manila. 



Lubang (McGregor) ; Luzon (Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, White- 

 head, McGregor)-, Mindoro (Everett, McGregor)-, Verde (McGregor). Siam, 

 Southern Tenasserim, Malay Peninsula, Greater and Lesser Sunda Islands, Celebes, 

 Amboina. 



