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 Columba indica Linnæus, Syst. Nat. ed. 10 (1758), 1, 164.

 Chalcophaps indica Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1893), 21, 514; Sharpe, Hand-List (1899), 1, 84; Oates, Cat. Birds’ Eggs (1901), 1, 103, pl. 8 figs. 2 & 3; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 14.

Ba-to ba-tó si-li, Manila; ma-ná-tad, Bohol; ac-bá-on, Ticao; ba-na-tá, Cagayancillo; li-mú-kin, Calayan.

Banton (Celestino); Basilan (Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, McGregor); Batan (McGregor); Bohol (McGregor); Cagayancillo (McGregor); Calamianes (Bourns & Worcester); Calayan (McGregor); Camiguin N. (McGregor); Cebu (Everett, Steere Exp., McGregor); Cuyo (McGregor); Fuga (McGregor); Guimaras (Steere Exp.); Lubang (McGregor); Luzon (Everett, Meyer, Bourns & Worcester, Whitehead, McGregor); Marinduque (Steere Exp.); Masbate (Steere Exp., McGregor); Mindanao (Everett, Koch & Schadenberg, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, Goodfellow, Celestino); Mindoro (Bourns & Worcester, McGregor, Porter); Negros (Meyer, Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, Keay); Palawan (Steere, Whitehead, Platen, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, White); Panay (Steere, Bourns & Worcester); Romblon (Bourns & Worcester, McGregor); Samar (Bourns & Worcester); Sibuyan (Bourns & Worcester, McGregor); Siquijor (Bourns & Worcester, Celestino); Sulu (Platen); Tablas (Bourns & Worcester); Tawi Tawi (Bourns & Worcester); Ticao (McGregor); Verde (McGregor). Indian and Malay Peninsulas, Indo-Chinese countries, Sunda Islands, Nicobars, Andamans, Moluccas, Ceylon, Celebes, New Guinea.

Adult male.—Forehead and superciliary stripe white, shading into slate-blue on crown and nape; upper back and neck washed with slate-blue; primaries, primary-coverts, and alula dull brown; small lesser coverts on shoulder tipped with white; rest of wings and back rich metallic green, changing to rich bronze when specimen is held away from the light; back metallic copper-color crossed near middle by a band of blue-gray; another blue-gray band between back and rump; upper tail-coverts dark slate with black tips; sides of neck and face and lower parts vinaceous-purple, paler on chin and on abdomen, the former sometimes washed with brown; basal under tail-coverts blue-gray, the longest ones blackish; rectrices mostly blackish, outermost pair mostly pearl-gray above, clearest on outer web, with a subterminal black band; next two pairs similar but variable. Iris brown; bill coral-red, dark at base; legs dark carmine; feet bluish; nails horn. A specimen from Mindoro measures: Length, 255; wing, 152; tail, 92; culmen from base, 23; tarsus, 27; middle toe with claw, 30.

Adult female.—In color pattern like the male from which it differs chiefly in having the vinaceous-purple replaced by brown, more or less faintly glossed with purple; whole head brown, superciliary stripe much reduced; small lesser wing-coverts brown; rump and upper tail-coverts cinnamon-brown with blackish tips and slight purple gloss; rectrices much as in male but second, third, and fourth outer pairs more or less rufous basally. A specimen from Masbate measures: Length, 241; wing, 139; tail, 85; culmen from base, 20; tarsus, 26; middle toe with claw, 28.

Young.—A young male has top and sides of head brown, the tips of many feathers cinnamon or rusty, especially those about the eyes; metallic colors of back and wings largely replaced by dusky brown and many of the wing-coverts, as well as some primaries and secondaries, tipped and mottled with rusty cinnamon; sides of neck, breast, and abdomen barred with cinnamon and blackish brown. Iris dark brown; bill dull reddish brown; legs dull pink; nails slate.

“Exceedingly common throughout the group. Invariably found on the ground and usually in deep woods. Usually alights on the ground again when flushed. Eyes dark brown; bill dark red; legs and feet light to dark red; nails light brown. Seven specimens average, 243 in length; wing, 141; tail, 88; culmen, 22; tarsus, 24; middle toe and claw, 29.” (Bourns and Worcester MS.)

The bronze-winged dove, because of its wide distribution, is a species little valued by the collector but its solitary and unobtrusive habits usually lead the novice to mistake it for a rarity. In no place abundant, the species may be found in nearly every island where forest, or even a small growth of trees, exists to afford protected feeding grounds. Oates records two eggs of this species which were collected in Mindoro by the Steere Expedition.