Columba dussumieri Temminck, Pl. Col. (1823), 188.
Turtur dussumieri Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1893), 21, 423.
Streptopelia dussumieri Sharpe, Hand-List (1899), 1, 79; Oates,
Cat. Birds' Eggs (1901), 1, 96; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List
(1906), 13.
Bá-to ba-tó de col-lar, Manila; pa-gao, Calayan; tuc-mó, Ticao,
Bohol, Cagayancillo.
Agutaya (McGregor); Bantayan (McGregor); Banton (Celestino);
Basilan (Bourns & Worcester, McGregor); Bohol (Everett, Steere
Exp., McGregor); Cagayancillo (McGregor); Calayan (McGregor);
Calamianes (Bourns & Worcester, McGregor); Caluya (Porter);
Catanduanes (Whitehead); Cebu (Everett, Steere Exp., McGregor);
Cuyo (McGregor); Fuga (McGregor); Guimaras (Steere Exp.); Leyte
(Everett); Libagao (Porter); Lubang (McGregor); Luzon (Meyer,
Everett, Bourns & Worcester, Whitehead, McGregor); Maestre de Campo
(McGregor & Worcester); Marinduque (Steere Exp.); Masbate (Steere
Exp., Bourns & Worcester); Mindanao (Everett, Koch & Schadenberg,
Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, Goodfellow); Mindoro (Steere
Exp., Schmacker, Whitehead, McGregor, Porter); Negros (Meyer,
Everett, Steere Exp., Keay); Palawan (Platen, White); Panay
(Bourns & Worcester); Romblon (Bourns & Worcester, McGregor);
Samar (Whitehead); Semirara (Worcester); Siasi (Guillemard);
Sibay (McGregor & Worcester); Sibutu (Everett); Sibuyan (Bourns &
Worcester, McGregor); Siquijor (Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester,
Celestino); Sulu (Guillemard, Bourns & Worcester); Tablas (Bourns
& Worcester); Tawi Tawi (Bourns & Worcester); Ticao (McGregor);
Verde (McGregor). North Borneo, Marianne Islands.
Adult (sexes alike).--Forehead and face pearl-gray; top and sides
of head and nape darker, washed with vinous, nuchal collar blackish,
each feather touched with gray, the tips faint metallic green; behind
collar a band of light rusty brown; rest of upper parts, including
tail-coverts, tertiaries, and proximal wing-coverts, earthy brown;
chin white shading into light vinous on throat, breast, and sides
of neck and abdomen; sides and flanks gray; middle of abdomen, vent,
and under tail-coverts white; alula, primary-coverts, and primaries
blackish brown, the last with narrow whitish edges, secondaries
similar to primaries; distal coverts in each series slate-gray;
rectrices blackish brown below; outer webs of shortest pair white;
three outer pairs with wide gray ends and narrow white tips; three
middle pairs with brown ends. Iris light orange or reddish brown; bill
dark horn-blue; angle of mouth dull red; legs light carmine; nails
brown. Length, 300 to 330; three males average: Wing, 161; tail, 134;
exposed culmen, 15; tarsus, 25; middle toe with claw, 31. Two females:
Wing, 158; tail, 129; culmen, 18; tarsus, 24; middle toe with claw, 31.
"Enormously abundant in many localities, especially about the
rice-fields after harvest. Everywhere common in open country. It is
a favorite cage bird with the natives, who call it took-moo from its
note. The nest, which is a mere platform of sticks and twigs, is placed
on the branch of some low tree or bush. The eggs are pure white in
color, and oval in form, with both ends rather sharply pointed. They
measure 28.4 to 30.5 in length by 20.8 to 21.3 in breadth.
"Eyes golden brown; feet purple; length, 305; wing 155; tail, 123;
culmen, 20; tarsus, 24; middle toe with claw, 32." (Bourns and
Worcester MS.)
Dussumier's dove occurs in nearly every island of the group; it
is partial to open, lowland country. After harvest it feeds in the
rice-fields, being found in pairs or small companies.
Genus OENOPOPELIA Blanford, 1898.
Tail short and square, its feathers subequal; first primary nearly
or quite as long as the second.