Columba tigrina Temminck and Knip, Hist. Nat. des Pig. (1808-11), 1, pl. 43. Turtur tigrinus Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1893), 21, 440. Spilopelia tigrina Sharpe, Hand-List (1899), 1, 80; Oates, Cat. Birds' Eggs (1901), 1, 98; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 14. Balabac (Everett); Palawan (Whitehead, McGregor, Celestino, White). Burma, Malay Peninsula, Greater and Lesser Sunda Islands, Celebes, Moluccas. Adult (sexes alike).--Head dark gray with a vinaceous wash; forehead and face lighter; lores with a small black spot; bifurcated feathers of neck black with white tips; feathers of upper parts brown with paler, dull, rusty edges and dark shaft-stripes, the stripes widest on tertials and wing-coverts; distal coverts in each series pearl-gray, outer webs white; quills brown with narrow pale edges; lower parts vinous; paler, nearly white on chin; abdomen white washed with buff; under tail-coverts white; three outer tail-feathers black broadly tipped with white; next pair black, tipped with gray; two central feathers uniform brown, next pair black with a broad, terminal, brown band. "Iris reddish pearl; bill black; feet pinkish." (Wallace.) Length, about 300; wing, 145; tail, 150; exposed culmen, 17; tarsus, 22. Young.--"More rufescent above and beneath; feathers of the hind neck of a pale brown with grayish edges." (Salvadori.) The Malay spotted dove occurs in small numbers as a winter visitant to Balabac and Palawan. Whitehead says it is "scarce and very local" in Palawan; Celestino took several specimens at Puerto Princesa. Subfamily GEOPELIINÆ. Genus GEOPELIA Swainson, 1837. Tip of first primary very slender; tail long and greatly graduated, and its feathers very slender. This genus contains the smallest Philippine doves. 49. GEOPELIA STRIATA (Linnæus). BARRED GROUND DOVE. Columba striata Linnæus, Syst. Nat. ed 12 (1766), 1, 282. Geopelia striata Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1893), 21, 458; Sharpe, Hand-List (1899), 1, 80; Oates, Cat. Birds' Eggs (1901), 1, 101; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 14. Ba-to ba-tó ca-tic'-bi, Manila. Lubang (McGregor); Luzon (Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, Whitehead, McGregor); Mindoro (Everett, McGregor); Verde (McGregor). Siam, Southern Tenasserim, Malay Peninsula, Greater and Lesser Sunda Islands, Celebes, Amboina.