GO MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 



rufous basally. A specimen from Masbate measures: Length, 241 ; wing, 

 139 ; tail, 85 ; culmen from base, 20 ; tarsus, 26 ; middle toe with claw, 28. 



Young. A young male has top and sides of head brown, the tips of 

 many feathers cinnamon or rusty, especially those about the eyes ; metallic- 

 colors of back and wings largely replaced by dusky brown and many 

 of the wing-coverts, as well as some primaries and secondaries, tipped and 

 mottled with rusty cinnamon ; sides of neck, breast, and abdomen barred 

 with cinnamon and blackish brown. Iris dark brown; bill dull reddish 

 brown; legs dull pink; nails slate. 



"Exceedingly common throughout the group. Invariably found on the 

 ground and usually in deep woods. Usually alights on the ground again 

 when flushed. Eyes dark brown; bill dark red; legs and feet light to 

 dark red ; nails light brown. Seven specimens average, 243 in length ; 

 wing, 141; tail, 88; culmen, 22; tarsus, 24; middle toe and claw, 29." 

 (Bourns and Worcester MS.) 



The bronze-winged dove, because of its wide distribution, is a species 

 little valued by the collector but its solitary and unobtrusive habits 

 usually lead the novice to mistake it for a rarity. In no place abundant, 

 the species may be found in nearly ever}' island where forest, or even a 

 small growth of trees, exists to afford protected feeding grounds. Gates 

 records two eggs of this species which were collected in Mindoro by the 

 Steere Expedition. 



Subfamily GEOTRYGONIN/E. 



Genus PHLEGCEXAS Keichenbach, 1852. 



Terrestrial and solitary; wings moderate; first primary normal; tail 

 moderate and rounded; tarsi unfeathered; wing-coverts banded; chin 

 and throat white; a conspicuous spot, or patch, of orange or red on crop 

 region, where the feathers are decomposed and harsh. 



a 1 . Breast-spot blood-red. 



ft 1 . Forehead gray ; lower breast pink .............................................. luzonica (p. 60) 



6 2 . Forehead green like crown; lower breast buff or fawn. 

 c 1 . A broad chestnut band on wing-coverts ................................ criniger (p. 61) 



c a . A broad white band on lesser wing-coverts ................................ keayi ( p. 62) 



a 2 . Breast-spot orange. 



ft 1 . Hind breast and upper abdomen pearly ash .............................. menagei (p. 63) 



6 a . Chest and abdomen white ................... ! .......................................... platense (p. 64) 



51. PHLEGCENAS LUZONICA (Scopoli). 

 LUZON PUNALADA. 



Columba luzonica SCOPOLI, Del Flor. et Faun. Insubr. ( 1786), 94. 

 Phlogoenas luzonica SALVADORI, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1893), 21, 585; 



SHABPE, Hand-List (1899), 1, 88; MCGREGOR and WORCESTER, Hand- 



List (1906), 15. 



Pu-iia-ld-da, Manila and generally. 



Luzon (Meyer, Everett, Heriot, Steere Exp., Whitehead, McGregor, Celestino). 



