Luzon (Meyer, Everett, Heriot, Steere Exp., Whitehead, McGregor, Celestino). Adult (sexes similar).--Top of head, from base of bill to hind border of eye, gray; rest of upper parts dark brown, each feather, except rectrices and their coverts, edged with metallic green or purple, according to the light; the edging wider on interscapulars; sides of neck similar to back; chin, throat, and sides of face below eyes pure white; a patch of blood-red on the stiffish feathers of crop, shading into pale salmon on lower breast and abdomen; sides gray; flanks, thighs, and under tail-coverts light buff; primaries and secondaries brown, edges reddish brown, basal half of inner web of primaries cinnamon; greater and median coverts reddish brown with wide gray tips forming two gray bands across each wing; lesser coverts gray; two middle pairs of rectrices brown on upper surface; the other rectrices gray, each with a subterminal black bar. Length, about 280. A male from Bataan Province, Luzon, measures: Wing, 148; tail, 112; culmen from base, 21; tarsus, 35. A female from the same province measures: Wing, 145; tail, 102; culmen from base, 20; tarsus, 32. This beautiful dove is often found in the Manila markets; it is a well-known favorite of the Spaniards. The species is commonly known as puñalada which means "stabbed with a dagger." The Calamianes record of this species is doubtless an error. 52. PHLEGOENAS CRINIGER (Jacquinot and Pucheran). HAIR-BREASTED PUÑALADA. Pampusana criniger Jacquinot and Pucheran, Voy. Pôle Sud. (1853), 3, 118. Phlogoenas bartletti Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1863), 377, pl. 34. Phlogoenas crinigera Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1893), 21, 587; Sharpe, Hand-List (1899), 1, 88; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 15. Basilan (Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, McGregor); Leyte (Whitehead); Mindanao (Everett, Steere Exp.); Samar (Bourns & Worcester). Adult male and female.--Head, cheeks, neck, and mantle dark metallic green changing to metallic purple; back, rump, and tail-coverts chestnut, some of the feathers with amethystine edges; white of chin and throat extending backward on each side of a large dark red crop-patch; rest of under parts rich buffy brown, lighter on tail-coverts, nearly white on abdomen; alula, primaries, and primary-coverts dark brown; secondaries chestnut; upper lesser coverts brown, edged with metallic green changing to amethystine; remainder of lesser coverts broadly tipped with gray; median and greater coverts chestnut, tipped with gray forming wing-bands; middle tail-feathers chestnut, the others blackish with wide gray tips. A male from Basilan: Length, 280; wing, 153; tail, 110; exposed culmen, 19; tarsus, 36. A female from Basilan: Wing, 145; tail, 95; exposed culmen, 19; tarsus, 34.