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after harvest and as they eat perhaps an equal quantity 
of weed seeds, the doves are probably beneficial. The large 
pigeons of which there are several species, generally known 
as balud or baud, 8 9 inhabit forests, where they search out 
whatever trees are in fruit. They are very fond of pili nuts 
and of the fruit of certain fig trees and consume enormous 
Fig. 5. A Philippine parrot, Tanygna- 
thus everetti Tweeddale. (From Cat. 
Birds Brit. Mus., vol. 20.) 
Fig. 4. Mindoro zone-tailed pigeon, 
Zonophaps mindorensis (Whitehead). 
(From The Ibis, 1896.) 
quantities of the round fruit of the buri palm. There are 
other fruit-eating pigeons ( limucon, tuemo, capilla, camasu)° 
less well known, but all of them are probably of benefit in 
scattering the seeds of forest trees. 
Parrots .—The parrots ( pericos ) 10 are willing to eat 
either grain or fruit and sometimes take corn in the ear 
before it is ripe enough to harvest. The smallest species 
8 Muscadivores chalyburct (Bonaparte) and closely related species 
of this genus. 
9 Species of the genera Osmotreron, Phapitreron, and Leucotreron, 
each represented by two or more species. The camasu, or nutmeg 
pigeon, Myristicivora bicolor (Scopoli), is the only species of its 
genus. 
10 The genera Tanygnathus and Prioniturus with representatives 
in different islands. 
