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Dinagat (Everett)-, Guimaras (Steere Exp.) ; Leyte (Everett] ; Lubang (Mc- 

 Gregor) ; Luzon (Jagor, Everett, Bourns & Worcester, Whitehead, McGregor) ; 

 Marinduque (Steere Exp.) ; Masbate (Bourns & Worcester) ; Mindanao (Everett, 

 Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, Goodfellow, Celestino) ; Mindoro (Bourns & 

 Worcester, Everett, McGregor) ; Negros (Layard, Steere, Bourns & Worcester, 

 Keay) ; Nipa (Everett); Palawan (Platen, Whitehead, Bourns & Worcester')', 

 Panay (Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester) ; Romblon (McGregor) ; Samar (Steere 

 Exp., Bourns & Worcester) ; Semirara (Worcester) ; Sibuyan (Bourns & Worcester, 

 McGregor)'-, Siquijor (Bourns & Worcester) ; Sulu (Guillemard) ; Tablas (Bourns 

 & Worcester)-, Tawi Tawi (Bourns & Worcester); Ticao (McGregor). Southern 

 China, Malay and Indian Peninsulas, Celebes, Ceylon, Mascarene and Greater Sunda 

 Islands. 



"Adult male. Above light slaty gray, feathers of back with hoary, 

 white shaft-lines; long scapular-feathers green, or green with gray tips; 

 wing-coverts and quills dark green with ocherous-buff margins, inclining 

 to white on the edges of the greater-coverts and secondaries, most of the 

 quills being fringed with white at the ends; lower back, rump, and upper 

 tail-coverts dull green, more or less powdered with gray ; tail dull green ; 

 crown dark glossy green, with the nape feathers produced into a point; 

 hind neck and sides of neck gray, extending over the sides of face and 

 ear-coverts; below the eye a streak of greenish black extending along 

 the ear-coverts, along the upper part of which runs a whitish streak from 

 behind the eye to the level of the nape; another streak of white from 

 the base of the lower mandible along the cheeks; throat, fore neck, and 

 abdomen white; sides of body and flanks, including the overhanging 

 feathers on the sides of the upper breast, slaty gray like the sides of the 

 neck, leaving the center of throat and fore neck white, slightly varied 

 with dingy brown markings, these markings being on the edges of the 

 throat-feathers ; axillars and under wing-coverts gray, like the quill-lining. 

 'Upper mandible black, with a longitudinal yellow streak along the margin 

 below the nostrils; grape greenish brown; lower mandible greenish 

 yellow, more or less black along the edges; facial skin green; legs and 

 toes green, front of tarsus and toes dusky, soles orange, and claws horn- 

 color; iris yellow.' (Oates.) Length, 483; culmen, 70; wing, 178; tail, 

 63; tarsus, 51; middle toe with claw, 53. 



"Adult female. Exactly like the male, but a trifle more dingy, espe- 

 cially in the throat markings, where the brown is a little more distinct 

 on the margins of the feathers. " Length, 457; culmen, 61; wing, 173; 

 tail, 70; tarsus, 46; middle toe with claw, 51. 



"Winter plumage. Duller than in summer and much greener above, 

 without any gray shading; the head green. 



"Young. Brown above; the wing-coverts with triangular whitish or 

 sandy -buff spots at their ends; head black, streaked with ocherous-buff 

 shaft-lines; sides of face and under surface of body whitish, strongly 

 streaked with dusky-blackish margins to the feathers. 



