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mandible black, lower gray. Seven specimens average as follows : Length, 

 355 ; culmen, 21 ; wing, 146 ; tail, 95 ; tarsus, 32 ; middle toe with claw, 9. 



"We consider the Sulu record of this species extremely doubtful. We 

 saw a Phlegcenas there which we failed to obtain. It seems to us more 

 probable, however, from the close relationship of the known birds of Sulu 

 to those of Tawi Tawi that the species in question is P. menagei. 



"The habits of the Philippine representatives of this genus are the 

 same. The birds are invariably found on the ground in the forest. They 

 run very rapidly, and in close cover frequently escape in this way without 

 taking wing. When flushed they invariably alight on the ground again, 

 and run rapidly after alighting, so that they are very difficult to kill. 

 P. criniger is fairly abundant in Basilan, but much rarer in Samar." 

 (Bourns and Worcester MS.) 



53. PHLEGCENAS KEAYI Clarke. 



NEGROS PUNALADA. 



Phlogccnas keayi CLARKE, Ibis (1900), 359, pi. 8; MCGREGOR and WORCESTER, 

 Hand-List (1906), 15. 



Pe-nes, Negros. 

 Negros ( Keay ) . 



Adult. "Feathers of the head, upper part of cheeks, hind neck, sides 

 of breast, mantle, and lesser wing-coverts (except the distal series) gray, 

 broadly edged with dark metallic green, changing to amethystine; back 

 and rump purplish chestnut with amethystine margins to feathers ; upper 

 tail-coverts purplish chestnut; primaries dusky, with margins of outer 

 webs and basal two-thirds of inner webs chestnut; secondaries chestnut, 

 dusky toward tips of inner webs; greater and median coverts purplish 

 chestnut; lesser coverts with two or three of their distal rows subtermi- 

 nally gray, broadly margined with white, the latter color forming a 

 conspicuous band across wing; lining of wing and under wing-coverts 

 chestnut; central pair of tail-feathers dark chestnut, the remainder gray 

 with a broad subapical band of black; lower part of cheeks, throat, fore 

 neck, breast, abdomen, and under tail-coverts white (abdomen washed 

 with fawn in some specimens) ; flanks and thighs fawn, almost white in 

 some examples ; patch on crop-region small and blood-red ; pectoral band 

 narrow and incomplete, formed by the metallic green margins to some 

 of the breast feathers. Feet red. Wing, 159; tail, 104; culmen, 18; 

 tarsus, 37." (Clarke.) 



Keay's blood-breasted pigeon is easily recognized by the conspicuous 

 white band across the wing. 



