NEW OR NOTEWORTHY PHILIPPINE BIRDS, 1 



By Richard C. McGregor 



(From the Section of Ornithology and Taxidermy, Biological Laboratory, 



Bureau of Science, Manila, P. I.) 



TWO TEXT FIGURES 



This paper consists of the description of a beautiful new 

 species of wood pigeon and notes on six species of birds that 

 are rare or not previously recorded from the Philippine Islands. 

 I take pleasure in thanking Dr. C. W. Richmond, of the United 

 States National Museum, for identifying some of the latter, and 

 Mr. H. C. Oberholser, of the United States Department of 

 Agriculture, for examining the specimens of Pycnonotus. 



Leucotreron menilli sp. no v. Fig. 1. 



Leucotreron marchei McGregor, Phil. Journ. Sci., Sec. D (1910), 5, 

 105 (Polillo); Man. Phil. Bds. (1909), 726. 



Specific characters. — Forehead gray; above including wings 

 mostly green; most nearly allied to Leucotreron marchei (Ouste- 

 let), as indicated by the peculiar red patch on the secondaries, 

 but with no red on head and no red or orange on breast. The 

 feathers of the breast are not decomposed as in L. marchei. 



Type. — No. 7633, adult male in breeding plumage. Bureau of 

 Science collection. Sarai barrio, Paete, Laguna Province, Luzon, 

 P. I. Collected June 12, 1915, by R. C. McGregor and A. 

 Celestino. 



Description of type. — General color above, including wings, 

 forest green, becoming more bluish or yellowish in different posi- 

 tions with regard to the light ; chin white ; forehead, crown, and 

 sides of head and throat gull gray, strongly tinged with green 

 on occiput, auriculars, and sides of neck, and gradually merging 

 into the clear forest green of neck; lower throat and breast 

 light neutral gray, lightly tinged with green and sharply cut 

 off from the cream-buff of lower breast and abdomen by a narrow 

 pectoral band of dark forest green, this band changing to myrtle 

 green when held toward the light; lower breast and abdomen 

 cream-buff; sides, flanks, and thighs green; under tail-coverts 

 green, broadly edged and tipped with cream-buff; wings green 

 like the back ; primaries chsetura black, narrowly edged with pale 

 cream-buff; secondaries forest green, the four outermost edged 

 with cream-buff near the tips, 4th to 9th with part of the web de- 



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