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Measurements of type .(from well-made skin of female). Total 
length, 230; wing, 124; tail, 95; culmen and cere (chord), 14; 
tarsus, 19; middle toe with claw, 26, "Eyes pink. Feet, base of man¬ 
dible, and around eyes, dark purple. Tip of bill black. Egg taken 
from ovary (F. S. Bourns)". 
Measurements of adult male (Mo. 161095, TJ.S.National Museum, 
collected in April, 1888, on the Island of Samar, by Dr. F. S. 
Bourns).- Wing, 129; tail, 95; culmen and cere (chord),14.5; tarsus, 
20, middle toe with claw, 27. 
Muscadlvores palmacenai3 freeri ?, new species. 
Palmas Island Fruit-eating Pigeon. 
Type .-No. 200839, U.S.National Museum. Adult male. Collected 
January 21, 1906 on Palmas Island, in the Celebes Sea, Philippine 
Islands, by Edgar A. Mearns. (original number, 13889). 
Characters .- Closely related to Muscadlvores pickcringi from 
Mangsee Island, north of Borneo, on the west side of the Sulu Sea; 
also to Muscadivores langhornei Mearns, from West Bolod Island, south¬ 
east of the Sulu Sea and near the Island of Basilau. From the type 
of pickeringi (No. 15732 IJ.S.N.M.) it differs in being paler, with 
much less vinaceous color on the chin, throat, breast, and under tail- 
coverts. The wing is ten millimeters shorter. From langhornei 
which it resembles more closely in the coloration of the under parts, 
it can be distinguished at a glance by the dark color of the mantle, 
rump, and upper tail-coverts. 
Adult male (type, killed January 21).- Head, neck, upper back, 
and under parts, lilac-gray, purest on the upper side of neck and 
upper back, washed with vinaceous on crown, ear-coverts, and breast, 
fading to whitish around base of bill and shading to drab-gray on legs 
