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 Carpophaga mindorensis Whitehead, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (1896), ser. 6, 18, 189; Ibis (1899), 488; Grant, Ibis (1896), 476, pl. 11.

 Zonophaps mindorensis Sharpe, Hand-List (1899), 1, 65; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 12.

Mindoro (Whitehead).

“Adult male.—Most nearly allied to Carpophaga radiata (Quoy and Gaimard) but much larger. Top of head, neck, breast, and rest of under parts bluish slate-gray, darkest on belly and under tail-coverts, the latter indistinctly edged with rufous; forehead, cheeks, and throat pale whitish pink; feathers surrounding eye and forming a patch above ear-coverts, blackish gray; hind neck gradually shading into sooty black on the mantle and interscapulary region; scapulars and inner wing-coverts bronze-lake, changing to bronze-green on the rest of the wings, rump, and upper tail-coverts; primary quills blackish gray, the inner ones glossed on the outer web and toward the extremity with metallic green; tail-feathers black, glossed with purple and green, and with a wide gray band across the middle; under wing-coverts and axillars slightly glossed with bronze. Length, 482; exposed culmen, 23; wing, 234; tail, 178; tarsus, 35; middle toe with claw, 51.

“Adult female.—Similar to the male but rather smaller, and the under tail-coverts distinctly margined with chestnut. Length, 445; exposed culmen, 23; wing, 223; tail, 159; tarsus, 33; middle toe with claw, 46.” (Whitehead.)

This species is much larger than Zonophaps poliocephala from which it differs also in the following points: A large black patch on ear-coverts and surrounding eye; forehead, cheeks, and chin fawn-color; occiput, neck, crop, breast, abdomen, and under tail-coverts gray.

“Male.—Iris bright yellow, with an outer ring of red; orbital skin lake-red, with a grayish yellow space between the rings; bill black; feet coral-pink. Female: Iris straw-yellow, with an outer ring of golden brown; orbital skin orange-yellow, bill olive-brown, black at tip; feet salmon-red; nails black.

“This species is more often met with singly or in pairs, but sometimes as many as four birds were seen together; they were feeding on some large purple colored fruits as big as a pigeon’s egg. C. mindorensis, like the last species (Zonophaps poliocephala), has a conspicuous fleshy ring outside the eyelid. * * * During dull misty weather, especially just after daybreak, the penetrating booming note is more often heard than on clear days.” (Whitehead.)

So far as known the species is confined to the highlands of Mindoro at an elevation of between 1,200 and 1,800 meters.