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50. CHALCOPHAPS INDICA (Linnaeus). 

 INDIAN BRONZE- WINGED DOVE. 



Columba indica LINNAEUS, Syst. Nat. ed. 10 (1758), 1, 164. 



Chalcophaps indica SALVADOEI, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1893), 21, 514; 

 SHARPS, Hand-List (1899), 1, 84; GATES, Cat. Birds' Eggs (1901), 1, 

 103, pi. 8 figs. 2 & 3; MCGREGOR and WORCESTER, Hand-List (1906), 14. 



Ba-to ba-to si-li, Manila; ma-nd-tad, Bohol; ac-bd-on, Ticao; "ba-na-td, Cagayan- 

 cillo; li-mu-kin, Calayan. 



Banton (Celestino) ; Basilan (Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, Mc- 

 Gregor) ; Batan (McGregor) ; Bohol (McGregor) ; Cagayancillo (McGregor) ; 

 Calamianes (Bourns & Worcester) ; Calayan (McGregor) ; Camiguin N. (Mc- 

 Gregor) ; Cebu (Everett, Steere Exp., McGregor) ; Cuyo (McGregor) ; Fuga (Mc- 

 Gregor) ; Guimaras (Steere Exp.) ; Lubang (McGregor) ; Luzon (Everett, Meyer, 

 Bourns & Worcester, Whitehead, McGregor) ; Marinduque (Steere Exp.) ; Masbate 

 (Steere Exp., McGregor) ; Mindanao (Everett, Koch & Schadenberg, Steere Exp., 

 Bourns & Worcester, Goodfellow, Celestino) ; Mindoro (Bourns & Worcester, Mc- 

 Gregor, Porter) ; Negros (Meyer, Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, 

 Keay) ; Palawan (Steere, Whitehead, Platen, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, 

 White) ; Panay (Steere, Bourns & Worcester) ; Romblon (Bourns & Worcester, 

 McGregor) ; Samar (Bourns & Worcester) ; Sibuyan (Bourns & Worcester, Mc- 

 Gregor) ; Siquijor (Bourns & Worcester, Celestino) ; Sulu (Platen) ; Tablas 

 (Bourns & Worcester)-, Tawi Tawi (Bourns & Worcester)-, Ticao (McGregor)', 

 Verde (McGregor). Indian and Malay Peninsulas, Indo-Chinese countries, Sunda 

 Islands, Nicobars, Andamans, Moluccas, Ceylon, Celebes, New Guinea. 



Adult male. Forehead and superciliary stripe white, shading into 

 slate-blue on crown and nape; upper back and neck washed with slate- 

 blue ; primaries, primary-coverts, and alula dull brown ; small lesser coverts 

 on shoulder tipped with white ; rest of wings and back rich metallic green, 

 changing to rich bronze when specimen is held away from the light; 

 back metallic copper-color crossed near middle by a band of blue-gray; 

 another blue-gray band between back and rump; upper tail-coverts dark 

 slate with black tips; sides of neck and face and lower parts vinaceous- 

 purple, paler on chin and on abdomen, the former sometimes washed with 

 brown; basal under tail-coverts blue-gray, the longest ones blackish; 

 rectrices mostly blackish, outermost pair mostly pearl-gray above, clearest 

 on outer web, with a sub terminal black band; next two pairs similar but 

 variable. Iris brown; bill coral-red, dark at base; legs dark carmine; 

 feet bluish; nails horn. A specimen from Mindoro measures: Length, 

 255; wing, 152; tail, 92; culmen from base, 23; tarsus, 27; middle toe 

 with claw, 30. 



Adult female. In color pattern like the male from which it differs 

 chiefly in. having the vinaceous-purple replaced by brown, more or less 

 faintly glossed with purple; whole head brown, superciliary stripe much 

 reduced; small lesser wing-coverts brown; rump and upper tail-coverts 

 cinnamon-brown with blackish tips and slight purple gloss; rectrices 

 much as in male but second, third, and fourth outer pairs more or less 



