Part 104

Adult.--"Forehead dark rosy red, in the male obscured by greenish tips to the feathers; narrow loral line and broad line from the eyes backward meeting (in the female indistinctly) on the nape, dark brownish purple (not quite as dark as 'prune-purple', Ridgway's Nomenclature of Colors, pl. 8, fig. 1); rest of crown and whole upper surface grass-green, the inner webs of remiges and first primary on both webs black, all, with the exception of the first three, with a large sulphur-yellow patch in the middle of inner webs; feathers round the mandible to ear-coverts dark rose-red, those toward the ear-coverts, with yellowish-green tips; feathers of under surface dull sulphur-yellow, with gray bases and broad green tips; lower abdomen and under tail-coverts more greenish yellow, the green tips less distinct; under wing-coverts yellowish green, those near edge of wing dark green and some of the longest ones pale yellow; tail from below greenish brownish-yellow. Wing, 106 to 108; tail, 71 to 74; bill from cere to tip, , 14.5; [female], 12; metatarsus about 13. 'Bill yellowish red.'" (Hartert.)

Known only from specimens collected on Mount Apo, Mindanao.

Family CACATUIDÆ.

Bill very strong; edge of upper mandible strongly sinuate; lower mandible with the lower face wide and slightly rounded; a large unfeathered space about the eye; head crested; tail moderate and square; plumage nearly all white in the single Philippine species.

Subfamily CACATUINÆ.

Genus CACATUA Vieillot, 1817.

Characters same as those given for the Family.

234. CACATUA HÆMATUROPYGIA (P. L. S. Müller).

PHILIPPINE COCKATOO.

Psittacus hæmaturopygius P. L. S. Müller, Natursyst. Suppl. (1776), 77. Cacatua hæmaturopygia Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1891), 20, 130; Sharpe, Hand-List (1900), 2, 11; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 48.

Ca-ta-la, Manila; a-bú-cay, Ticao and Bohol; ca-lang'-ai, Lubang.

Balabac (Steere, Everett); Bantayan (McGregor); Basilan (Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, Doherty, McGregor); Bohol (McGregor); Bongao (Everett); Calamianes (Bourns & Worcester); Cebu (Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester); Guimaras (Meyer, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester); Lapac (Guillemard); Leyte (Everett, Steere Exp.); Lubang (McGregor); Luzon (Meyer, Bourns & Worcester, Whitehead, McGregor); Marinduque (Steere Exp.); Masbate (Steere Exp., McGregor); Mindanao (Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, Koch & Schadenberg, Goodfellow, Celestino); Mindoro (Steere Exp., Schmacker, Whitehead, Bourns & Worcester, McGregor); Negros (Meyer, Everett, Bourns & Worcester, Keay, Whitehead); Nipa (Everett); Palawan (Steere, Lempriere, Whitehead, Platen, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, White); Panaon (Everett); Panay (Bourns & Worcester); Samar (Steere Exp., Whitehead); Siquijor (Bourns & Worcester, Celestino); Sulu (Burbidge); Tablas (Bourns & Worcester); Tawi Tawi (Everett, Bourns & Worcester); Ticao (McGregor).

Adult (sexes alike).--White; under tail-coverts vermilion edged with white; inner webs of remiges and rectrices sulphur-yellow much deeper on the latter and in some specimens tinged with red; sexes similar. Length, 300 to 350; three specimens measure, wing, 210 to 218; tail, 112 to 117; culmen from cere, 25 to 27; tarsus, 19 to 20. Iris bright red; naked skin around eyes, pale pink; bill dirty white; legs and nails bluish.

The ear-coverts are usually tinged with vermilion and the bases of crest-feathers are suffused with sulphur-yellow but both of these characters are variable. Bourns and Worcester killed two specimens in Panay in which "the plumage showed a peculiar faint pinkish tinge."

The "catala" is usually met with in small flocks either in forest or fields; its presence is proclaimed by the conspicuous white plumage and harsh note. In the island of Ticao we observed this species nesting in holes in dead trees but we secured only young birds; these resembled the adult. Bourns and Worcester took nestlings in Masbate in May, 1888.

"Iris of females usually blood-red, sometimes brown. We are inclined to think red the normal color in fully adult females. Iris in males very dark brown to black; bare skin around the eye creamy white; bill drab, with white tip. Three females measure, 315 in length; wing, 206; tail, 110; culmen, 25; tarsus, 18; middle toe and claw, 38." (Bourns and Worcester MS.)

Family PSITTACIDÆ.

Bill with a series of transverse ridges under the hook; head uncrested; colors green and blue, or green, blue, and red; never white.

Subfamily PALÆORNITHINÆ.

Genera.

a1. Larger; length, more than 250 mm.; wing, more than 125 mm.

b1. Smaller; wing, about 150 mm.; middle pair of rectrices elongated and racket-tipped. ... Prioniturus (p. 275) b2. Larger; wing, about 200 mm.; rectrices graduate. ... Tanygnathus (p. 281)

a2. Smaller; length, less than 190 mm.; wing, less than 115 mm.

b1. Larger; bill heavier; culmen exceeding width of bill but little. ... Bolbopsittacus (p. 284) b2. Smaller; bill more slender; culmen twice the width of bill. ... Loriculus (p. 286)

Genus PRIONITURUS Wagler, 1832.

Length, 280 to 300 mm.; bill moderate, edge of upper mandible nicked; tail moderate, rectrices equal, except middle pair which are nearly twice as long as the others and racket-tipped; colors blue, green, and greenish yellow; in two species the male has a red crown-patch. Rectrices below verditer-blue; inner web of remiges below with a wide edge of verditer-blue; first primary above edged with blue on outer web. The key is based on male birds. The name parrakeet (the same as parrokeet, parakeet, paroquet, etc.) is applied to any of the smaller parrots, more particularly to those that have long tails.

Species.

a1. Wing, 160 to 173 mm.