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Read in the Wunder reader — freeMuscadivores palmasensis Mearns, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. (1909), 36, 436.
"Characters.--Closely related to Muscadivores pickeringi from Mangsee Island, north of Borneo, on the west side of the Sulu Sea; also to Muscadivores langhornei Mearns, from West Bolod Island, southeast of the Sulu Sea and near the Island of Basilan. From the type of pickeringi (Cat. No. 15,732 U. 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 10 mm. 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 upper parts, lilac-gray, purest on the upper side of the 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 and crissum; scapulars, back, rump, and wing-coverts mouse-gray, lustrous in a certain light; wing-quills and upper tail-coverts dark mouse-gray, with subdued reflections of violet, coppery, and green; rectrices lustrous golden green above, smoke-gray below; flanks, axillars, and lining of wings clear gray. An adult male topotype in fresh plumage, shot by Dr. Paul C. Freer, October 7, 1906, only differs from the type in being appreciably darker. The sexes are practically alike in size and color.
"Colors of soft parts.--Two mated pairs, about to breed, had the soft parts colored exactly alike, January 21, 1906: Iris red; eyelids and feet vinaceous; claws dusky purplish gray; bare space surrounding eye, pale plumbeous; bill pale bluish gray at tip, darker plumbeous at base. Testicles functionally enlarged.
"Measurements of two adult males (type and topotype measured fresh by the author).--Total length, 420, 430 mm.; alar expanse, 735, 750; wing, 240, 240; tail, 156, 160; culmen (chord), 20, 20; tarsus, 32, 34; middle toe with claw, 46, 49." (Mearns.)
Page 48: To names of collectors of Zonophaps poliocephala, under Negros, add: Celestino.
Page 50: To localities for Myristicivora bicolor add: Lapac (Bartsch).
Page 51: To names of collectors of Columba griseogularis, under Negros, add: Celestino.
Page 52: To localities for Macropygia tenuirostris add: Polillo (McGregor); under Luzon add: Bartsch.
Page 54: To localities for Streptopelia dussumieri add: Polillo (McGregor); under Luzon add: Bartsch.
Page 59: To localities for Chalcophaps indica add: Polillo (McGregor).
Page 60: To localities for Phlegænas luzonica add: Polillo (McGregor).
Page 68: To localities for Hypotænidia torquata add: Polillo (McGregor).
Page 87: To names of collectors of Hydrochelidon hybrida, under Luzon, add: Bartsch.
Page 90: To names of collectors of Sterna boreotis, under Luzon, add: Bartsch.
Page 92: To localities for Sterna sinensis add: Polillo (McGregor); under Luzon add: (Curl).
Page 99: To localities for Arenaria interpres add: Polillo (McGregor).
Page 103: To localities for Squatarola squatarola add: Polillo (McGregor).
Page 104: To localities for Charadrius fulvus add: Polillo (McGregor).
Page 106: To localities for Ochthodromus geoffroyi add: Polillo (McGregor); Sulu (Bartsch); Tataan (Bartsch).
Page 108: To localities for Ochthodromus veredus add: Luzon (Curl).
Page 109: To names of collectors of Ægialitis dubia, under Luzon and Mindanao, add: Bartsch.
Page 112: To localities for Ægialitis alexandrina add: Sulu (Bartsch).
Page 117: To localities for Numenius variegatus add: Polillo (McGregor); under Mindanao add: Bartsch.
Page 119: To localities for Mesoscolopax minutus add: Luzon (Curl).
Page 122: To localities for Totanus eurhinus add: Polillo (McGregor).
Page 123: To localities for Helodromas ochropus add: Polillo (McGregor).
Page 125: To localities for Heteractitis brevipes add: Polillo (McGregor).
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