64 .MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 



55. PHLEGCENAS PLATEN>E Blasius. 

 MINDORO PUNALADA. 



Phlogcenas platence "BLASIUS," HABTEBT, Jour, fiir Ornith. (1891) 302; 

 SALVADOBI, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1893), 21, 588; SHABPE, Hand-List 

 (1899), 1, 88; McGBEGOB and WOBCES.TEB, Hand-List (1906), 15. 



Mindoro (Platen, Schmacker, Bourns & Worcester, McGregor). 



Adult (sexes similar). Head and neck dark metallic green changing 

 to amethystine ; scapulars, back, and rump chestnut, many of the feathers 

 edged with metallic green; below white becoming faint buff or ochraceous 

 on abdomen, flanks, and tail-coverts ; 'finely speckled with gray on si<lcs 

 of breast ; red crop-patch very small ; alula, primaries, and primary-coverts 

 brown; secondaries and coverts chestnut, except some of the lesser series 

 which are blackish with broad light gray tips forming a conspicuous 

 patch ; upper tail-coverts and middle pair of tail-feathers gray, remainder 

 of rectrices blackish with gray tips. Iris purple; bill black; legs dark 

 rose-color; nails gray. Length, 275 to 285. A male measures: Wing, 

 150; tail, 106; exposed culmen, 20; tarsus, 34. A female: Wing, 141; 

 tail, 100 ; exposed culmen, 20 ; tarsus, 34. 



Two nests with eggs were collected on the Baco River in 1905. The 

 first was taken April 28, and was placed 1.5 meters from the ground on 

 a horizontal limb of a small tree. The two eggs were advanced in incuba- 

 tion. They measure 30 by 22 and 29 by. 22. The second nest was 

 similarly placed in a shrub. The nest measures 200 by 280 mm. across 

 the top and is very shallow, the outside depth being about 50 mm. On 

 the bottom are a number of rather large leaves and sticks, topped by fine 

 rootlets and spiral plant-tendrils. The materials were poorly put together 

 so that a large part of the bottom fell off when the nest was removed 

 from its site. The two eggs were well incubated. They measure 29 by 22 

 and 30 by 21. Their color is light cream. 



"Common in the old forests in the interior of Mindoro, but very diffi- 

 cult to shoot. We found its nest in a tangle of vines about two meters 

 above the ground. The female flew from the nest to the ground and 

 pretended to be lame. The nest, which contained two young birds, was 

 found in the month of May." (Bourns and Worcester MS.) 



Subfamily CALCENADIN^E. 

 Genus CALCEXAS Gray, 1840. 



The genus Calcenas is distinguished by having the feathers of the neck 

 long, narrow, and pointed ; bill deep, with a knob on the base of culmen ; 

 legs and feet large, covered with large transverse plates; tail short and 

 square. 



