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 Pampusana criniger Jacquinot and Pucheran, Voy. Pôle Sud. (1853), 3, 118.

 Phlogœnas bartletti Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1863), 377, pl. 34.

 Phlogœnas 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.

“Eyes lilac; legs light pink; feet dark pink; nails nearly white; upper mandible black, lower gray. Seven specimens average as follows: Length, 355; culmen, 21; wing, 146; tail, 95; tarsus, 32; middle toe with claw, 9.

“We consider the Sulu record of this species extremely doubtful. We saw a Phlegœnas there which we failed to obtain. It seems to us more probable, however, from the close relationship of the known birds of Sulu to those of Tawi Tawi that the species in question is P. menagei.

“The habits of the Philippine representatives of this genus are the same. The birds are invariably found on the ground in the forest. They run very rapidly, and in close cover frequently escape in this way without taking wing. When flushed they invariably alight on the ground again, and run rapidly after alighting, so that they are very difficult to kill. P. criniger is fairly abundant in Basilan, but much rarer in Samar.” (Bourns and Worcester MS.)