A Manual of Philippine Birds. Richard C. McGregor
described in 1880 from a single specimen which remained unique for fifteen years when Whitehead rediscovered the species in Lepanto. So far as we at present know, this species is confined to this subprovince and the neighboring subprovince of Bontoc. The Igorots say that at certain seasons of the year these birds become very fat and heavy and that they are then taken by pursuing them until they are exhausted. This account is probably correct as the specimens seen in the possession of the Igorots are not injured, while birds taken in snares or with bird-lime are seldom fit for specimens. This species may be recognized at once by the large red patch on the secondaries. In 1903 a pigeon, probably of this species, was killed in Bontoc by the Hon. Dean C. Worcester but the skin was lost.
28. LEUCOTRERON LECLANCHERI (Bonaparte).
BLACK-CHINNED FRUIT PIGEON.
Trerolœma leclancheri Bonaparte, Compt. Rend. (1855), 41, 247.
Leucotreron gironieri Walden, Trans. Zool. Soc. (1875), 9, 213, pl. 34, fig. 1.
Ptilopus leclancheri Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1893), 21, 79.
Leucotreron leclancheri Sharpe, Hand-List (1899), 1, 56; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 10.
Ca-pil′-la, Manila.
Bantayan (McGregor); Batan (McGregor); Bohol (McGregor); Cagayancillo (McGregor); Calamianes (Bourns & Worcester); Calayan (McGregor); Camiguin N. (McGregor); Catanduanes (Whitehead); Cebu (Burger); Guimaras (Meyer); Lubang (McGregor); Luzon (Meyer, Steere Exp., Whitehead, McGregor); Mindoro (McGregor, Porter); Negros (Everett, Steere Exp.); Palawan (Everett, Platen, White); Panay (Meyer); Romblon (McGregor); Samar (Whitehead); Semirara (Worcester); Sibuyan (McGregor); Tablas (Bourns & Worcester).
Adult male.—Chin black; head, neck, throat, and breast pearl-gray, washed with dull green on occiput and hind neck, washed with ocherous yellow on throat and crop; remainder of upper parts green, brightest on wings and tail, the latter tipped with dull yellowish brown; primaries edged with white near their tips; some of the secondaries edged with ocherous-yellow; behind the gray of breast a dark chestnut band, blackish on its anterior border; middle of abdomen white, washed with cinnamon or in some specimens with yellowish buff; under tail-coverts cinnamon; rectrices below, brown with gray tips; remainder of under parts dull green. Iris bright red; bill bright yellow; base of lower mandible, and feet dark crimson; nails dark brown. Length, 280 to 305; measurements of three specimens give: Wing, 144 to 145; tail, 104 to 105; culmen from base, 19 to 20; tarsus, 18 to 20.
Adult female.—Forehead blue-gray; chin black; throat and breast green; dark chestnut pectoral-band, and other parts, as in the male. A female from Sibuyan has the wing, 145, and tail, 104; a female from Calayan is larger; wing, 157; tail, 114.
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