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 Trerolœma leclancheri Bonaparte, Compt. Rend. (1855), 41, 247.

 Leucotreron gironieri Walden, Trans. Zool. Soc. (1875), 9, 213, pl. 34, fig. 1.

 Ptilopus leclancheri Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1893), 21, 79.

 Leucotreron leclancheri Sharpe, Hand-List (1899), 1, 56; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 10.

Ca-pil′-la, Manila.

Bantayan (McGregor); Batan (McGregor); Bohol (McGregor); Cagayancillo (McGregor); Calamianes (Bourns & Worcester); Calayan (McGregor); Camiguin N. (McGregor); Catanduanes (Whitehead); Cebu (Burger); Guimaras (Meyer); Lubang (McGregor); Luzon (Meyer, Steere Exp., Whitehead, McGregor); Mindoro (McGregor, Porter); Negros (Everett, Steere Exp.); Palawan (Everett, Platen, White); Panay (Meyer); Romblon (McGregor); Samar (Whitehead); Semirara (Worcester); Sibuyan (McGregor); Tablas (Bourns & Worcester).

Adult male.—Chin black; head, neck, throat, and breast pearl-gray, washed with dull green on occiput and hind neck, washed with ocherous yellow on throat and crop; remainder of upper parts green, brightest on wings and tail, the latter tipped with dull yellowish brown; primaries edged with white near their tips; some of the secondaries edged with ocherous-yellow; behind the gray of breast a dark chestnut band, blackish on its anterior border; middle of abdomen white, washed with cinnamon or in some specimens with yellowish buff; under tail-coverts cinnamon; rectrices below, brown with gray tips; remainder of under parts dull green. Iris bright red; bill bright yellow; base of lower mandible, and feet dark crimson; nails dark brown. Length, 280 to 305; measurements of three specimens give: Wing, 144 to 145; tail, 104 to 105; culmen from base, 19 to 20; tarsus, 18 to 20.

Adult female.—Forehead blue-gray; chin black; throat and breast green; dark chestnut pectoral-band, and other parts, as in the male. A female from Sibuyan has the wing, 145, and tail, 104; a female from Calayan is larger; wing, 157; tail, 114.

Young.—Green, chin cinnamon; pectoral-band wanting or indicated by a few chestnut feathers; abdomen white or washed with buff; under tail-coverts slightly paler than in the adult.

Leclancher’s pigeon is generally found in forest and, although widely distributed, it does not occur in great numbers, except when feeding in fruit trees; it appears to be strictly arboreal in habits. Specimens from Camiguin, Calayan, and Batan are considerably larger than specimens from more southern islands. The nest as observed in Camiguin, north of Luzon, was a slight platform of twigs placed on a horizontal branch at from 1.5 to 4.5 meters from the ground. Four nests contained but one egg each. Three eggs are white in color and measure, respectively: 35 by 23, 35 by 25, and 31 by 24.