Treroloema 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.
Genus LAMPROTRERON Bonaparte, 1854.
Lamprotreron is distinguished from all other Philippine genera by
having the breast-feathers bifurcated, as if the tip of the shaft
had been cut off of each feather.