Part 15

Young.--Green, chin cinnamon; pectoral-band wanting or indicated by a few chestnut feathers; abdomen white or washed with buff; under tail-coverts slightly paler than in the adult.

Leclancher's pigeon is generally found in forest and, although widely distributed, it does not occur in great numbers, except when feeding in fruit trees; it appears to be strictly arboreal in habits. Specimens from Camiguin, Calayan, and Batan are considerably larger than specimens from more southern islands. The nest as observed in Camiguin, north of Luzon, was a slight platform of twigs placed on a horizontal branch at from 1.5 to 4.5 meters from the ground. Four nests contained but one egg each. Three eggs are white in color and measure, respectively: 35 by 23, 35 by 25, and 31 by 24.

Genus LAMPROTRERON Bonaparte, 1854.

Lamprotreron is distinguished from all other Philippine genera by having the breast-feathers bifurcated, as if the tip of the shaft had been cut off of each feather.

29. LAMPROTRERON TEMMINCKI (Prevost and Des Murs).

TEMMINCK'S FRUIT PIGEON.

Kurukuru temminckii Prevost and Des Murs, Voy. Venus, Zool. (1849), 234. Ptilopus temmincki Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1893), 21, 115; Meyer and Wiglesworth, Bds. Celebes (1898), 2, 613. Lamprotreron temmincki Sharpe, Hand-List (1899), 1, 58; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 11. Ptilopus formosus Guillemard, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1885), 269.

Sulu (Guillemard). Celebes.

"Adult male.--General color above parrot-green, the inner wing-coverts, scapulars, and inner quills with an oval black spot near the ends; entire head above aster-purple; hind neck and sides of neck dragon's-blood-red, shading off into the green of the mantle; sides of occiput and ear-coverts green, becoming gray on malar region, chin, throat, and jugulum; the upper breast rose-purple, the feathers on chest and jugulum forked at the tip (as if the middle part of the web had been cut out with scissors); passing on lower breast into a broad band of blackish plum-purple; on and near the carpal edge a large spot of this color; sides, thighs, and flanks green, thighs grayer, flanks tipped with naples-yellow; abdomen and under tail-coverts yellowish white, the inner webs of the latter partly green; center tail-feathers above green, grayish at tip, all the lateral tail-feathers blackish, tipped with gray, washed with green; tail below dusky grayish, terminal bar whitish; quills above black, washed externally with green, finely edged with yellowish; wings below slaty, the first primary much attenuated for about 2 cm. and incurved.

"Adult female.--Above all parrot-green, except for a patch of aster-purple on crown and occiput, and purplish black spots on the scapulars and inner-coverts; breast green, without rose-purple and the dark plum-purple band of the male.

"Immature male.--Closely resembling the female; forehead green with the purple feathers of the crown intermingled; dark purple breast-band commencing to form; breast grayer than in the female.

"Young in first plumage.--Bright parrot-green, the wing-coverts and secondaries broadly margined with light yellow, the back, rump, and scapulars, and breast more finely margined with yellow; remaining under parts much as in the female; tail tipped with yellowish white; no purple on head or elsewhere.

"Wing, 128 to 140; tail, 95; tarsus, 22; culmen from cranium suture, 17 to 19." (Meyer and Wiglesworth.)

Male.--"Iris sea-green; bill green, reddish at base; tarsus greenish olive. Length, 295; wing, 144." (Salvadori.)

Genus SPILOTRERON Salvadori, 1882.

First primary slightly attenuated on its distal third; tail square; tarsus feathered nearly to the toes.

30. SPILOTRERON BANGUEYENSIS (A. B. Meyer).

MEYER'S FRUIT PIGEON.

Ptilopus bangueyensis Meyer, Jour. für Orn. (1891), 70; Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1893), 21, 143. Spilotreron bangueyensis Sharpe, Hand-List (1899), 1, 61; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 11. Ptilopus purpureinucha Meyer, Jour. für Orn. (1891), 71.

Basilan (Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, McGregor); Bongao (Everett); Cagayan Sulu (Mearns); Mindanao (Everett, Steere Exp.); Palawan (Lempriere, Whitehead); Sibutu (Everett); Sulu (Burbidge, Guillemard, Bourns & Worcester); Tawi Tawi (Bourns & Worcester). Banguey.

Adult male.--Bright leaf-green, mantle slightly yellowish; head, neck, and throat pearly gray; chin and upper throat yellow; a large patch on occiput and hind neck black; lower abdomen and short tail-coverts bright yellow; longer tail-coverts bright carmine, narrowly tipped with yellow; secondaries and greater coverts very narrowly edged with yellow. Eyelids, iris, and bill greenish yellow; feet rose-pink; nails brown. Length, 240. Two males from Basilan, wing, 123, 116; tail, 85; exposed culmen, 16, 15; middle toe with claw, 26.

Adult female.--Entirely green, except the under tail-coverts which are green, washed with carmine, and narrowly tipped with yellow. Two females from Basilan measure: Wing, 121, 118; tail, 79, 80; exposed culmen, 16, 14; middle toe with claw, 26, 25.

Young.--Similar to the adult female but with little or no carmine on under tail-coverts.

"This, the most northern form of the Spilotreron group, is very nearly related to the most southern one, from which it is not easily distinguished. The slight purple tinge of the black occipital spot, on which Dr. Meyer relies to separate the Basilan bird, appears only in certain individuals, but is absent in the majority of specimens. As to the collar of the bird from Banguey, which is described as whitish gray, I do not find that it is different from that of the specimens from other localities." (Salvadori.)

"The blue spot on the nape on which Meyer relies to separate the Basilan birds is a minus quantity in our five specimens from that island, though they are in breeding plumage. This species is quite common in Sulu and Tawi Tawi, and is sometimes found feeding in isolated trees in open fields.

"Iris yellow; legs dark pink; feet same color; nails nearly black; bill and eye-wattle light greenish yellow. Length, 230; wing, 121; tail, 81; culmen, 33; middle toe with claw, 29." (Bourns and Worcester MS.)

Subfamily MUSCADIVORINÆ.

This group includes the largest species of forest pigeons.