A Manual of Philippine BirdsMcGregor, Richard C. (Richard Crittenden)
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A Manual of Philippine Birds
McGregor, Richard C. (Richard Crittenden)
Birds -- Philippines
Adult female.--Said to be similar to the female of griseipectus.
This species is known from Whitehead's specimens only, taken "when
camped just below the bare cone of Canloon."
39. PTILOCOLPA MINDANENSIS Grant.
MINDANAO FRUIT PIGEON.
Ptilocolpa mindanensis Grant, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club. (1905), 16,
16; Ibis (1906), 503.
Mindanao (Goodfellow, Celestino).
Adult male.--"Very similar to the male of P. nigrorum Whitehead, but
with the chin, throat, and upper part of the chest nearly pure white,
instead of gray, and the breast deep grayish black. 'Iris creamy white;
eyelids pale gray; bill scarlet at base, pinkish white toward the tip;
feet dull purple.' (Goodfellow.) Length, about 330; wing, 205; tail,
114." (Grant.)
Collected on Mount Apo, Mindanao, at 2,440 meters.
Genus ZONOPHAPS Salvadori, 1893.
Very large; a conspicuous bare area about eye; first primary slender,
scooped near middle of inner web; second primary attenuated by a
double cut; tail crossed by a gray band some distance from tip.
Species.
a1. Breast green; abdomen pale vinous. ... poliocephala (p. 48)
a2. Breast and abdomen uniform blue-gray. ... mindorensis (p. 49)
40. ZONOPHAPS POLIOCEPHALA (Hartlaub).
PHILIPPINE ZONE-TAILED PIGEON.
Carpophaga poliocephala Hartlaub, Jour. für Orn. (1855), 97;
Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1893), 21, 209; Whitehead, Ibis
(1899), 487.
Zonophaps poliocephala Sharpe, Hand-List (1899), 1, 65; McGregor
and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 12.
Basilan (Steere Exp., McGregor); Cebu (Bourns & Worcester); Dinagat
(Everett); Leyte (Whitehead); Luzon (Gevers, Whitehead); Masbate
(Steere Exp.); Mindanao (Everett, Steere Exp., Goodfellow); Mindoro
(McGregor); Negros (Steere, Keay); Panay (Bourns & Worcester);
Samar (Bourns & Worcester); Sibuyan (McGregor); Tawi Tawi (Bourns
& Worcester).
Adult (sexes alike).--Head and a narrow band across throat pale gray,
vinous on crown and occiput; a large patch of light chestnut on chin;
lower breast and abdomen pale vinous; abdomen freckled with chestnut,
the color becoming rich chestnut-brown on flanks, thighs, and under
tail-coverts; tail black below, crossed at about 40 mm. from tip by a
pale gray band which shows both above and below; when the specimen
is held toward the light, the crop, breast, sides of neck, and
upper parts, except head, are rich green; held away from the light,
tail and its coverts, rump, distal wing-coverts, secondaries, and
breast become largely coppery or bronze-color; hind neck vinaceous
gray, proximal wing-coverts, tertials, and interscapular region
deep vinous-purple. Bill black; "iris indian-yellow, passing into
red on outer ring;" legs, feet, and skin about eye crimson; nails
gray. Length, 400 to 430; a male from Sibuyan measures: Wing, 235;
tail, 156; culmen from base, 24; tarsus, 32; a female from Sibuyan,
wing, 235; tail, 154; culmen from base, 24; tarsus, 27.
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