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"Adult male.--Top of the head and neck yellowish white; cheeks, ear-coverts, and feathered part of throat black; back, rump, upper tail-coverts, and wings brown, more or less glossed with dull green, most of the primaries, the secondaries, and their coverts narrowly margined with buff on the outer web; breast, belly, thighs, and under tail-coverts white, tinged with buff; basal half of tail dark brown, succeeded by a wide white band (stained rufous) followed by a terminal black band glossed with green; the outer web of the outer tail-feathers is uniform black; naked skin round eye and on chin and throat white. Iris crimson; feet and nails dull black; casque transparent horn-brown; bill dark brown; the base of the upper mandible with five transverse ridges, that of the lower with about four oblique ridges separated by ocher-colored grooves. Length, 525; wing, 233; tail, 188; tarsus, 43.

"Young male differs from the adult in having the upper tail-coverts chestnut and the buff edges to the quills and coverts much wider.

"Adult female.--Head and neck very dark brown; back, rump, upper tail-coverts, and wings dark brown, glossed with dull green; under parts brownish gray, tinged with buff on the breast; tail as in the male adult; naked skin round eye and on chin and throat purplish. Iris brown; legs and feet dull black; bill and casque as in the male. Length, 483; wing, 221; tail, 185; tarsus, 41.

"Young female with half developed casque differs from the adult in having the under parts buff, edges of both the webs of the tail-feathers margined with brown, and the upper tail-coverts and the ends of the feathers suffused with bright buff." (Grant.)

296. PENELOPIDES TALISI Finsch.

NORTHERN TARICTIC.

Penelopides talisi Finsch, Notes Leyden Mus. (1903), 23, 190; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 56.

Talisi, native name.

Luzon (van der Valk).

Adult male.--Appears to differ from P. manillæ in having no light edges to the primaries and in the banding of the tail-feathers which is as follows: Middle pair with a rust-colored cross-band, 25 mm. wide; on the pair next to the middle the band only one-half as wide; on the third pair only the inner web with small light rust-colored spots which form cross-bands; two outermost tail-feathers on each side uniform brownish black; upper mandible with four basal grooves. Length, 500; wing, 243; tail, 220; bill, 95.

This species was described from an adult male collected in Cagayan Province, Luzon, February 23, 1892; if it is distinct from P. manillæ, as seems quite probable, we have the interesting case of two species of Penelopides resident in the same island. I have not examined birds referable to P. talisi and the diagnosis is taken from Finsch's description which will be found in the footnote.

A hornbill collected in Albay Province, Luzon, and recorded by Grant as the young of P. manillæ, Ibis (1895), 261, is believed by Finsch to be P. talisi.

297. PENELOPIDES MINDORENSIS Steere.

MINDORO TARICTIC.

Penelopides mindorensis Steere, List Birds & Mams. Steere Exped. (1890), 13; Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1892), 17, 374; Sharpe, Hand-List (1900), 2, 65; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 56.

Ta-ric-tic, Mindoro.

Mindoro (Steere Exp., Schmacker, Bourns & Worcester, Everett, Whitehead, McGregor, Porter).

Male.--Crown, sides of neck, and under parts whitish; ear-coverts and band across throat black; hind neck, back, rump, upper tail-coverts, and wings black, glossed with dark green, some of the wing-feathers edged with pale buff; tail chestnut, its terminal third black, outermost feather with entire outer web and most of the inner web black. Wing, 235; tail, 205; bill from nostril, 74.

Female.--Similar to the male but forehead blackish and black band on upper throat wider. Wing, 235; tail, 210; bill from nostril, 77.

"Adult male.--Is most nearly allied to P. panini, but differs from that species in having the belly and under tail-coverts white, the rump and upper tail-coverts black glossed with green, like the rest of the back, and the upper mandible only with transversely grooved basal plates. From P. manillæ and affinis it differs (and resembles P. panini) in having no black at the base of the tail. Length, 565; wing, 246; tail, 203; tarsus, 43." (Grant.)

"Similar to P. manillæ, but black with bronze-green gloss instead of brown as in P. manillæ. The whole base of the tail is light ferruginous instead of this color being limited to a narrow bar as in P. manillæ, and the lower mandible is plain instead of being chiseled as in that species. The female of P. mindorensis has the feathers of the head white as in the male, thus differing from the other Philippines species, in all of which the females are black-headed.

"The males and females of P. mindorensis differ chiefly in the color of the bare skin about the eye and base of the beak, this in life being dark blue in the female and flesh-colored in the male." (Steere.)

"Habits like those of P. manillæ. All the Philippine representatives of this genus have the peculiar undulating flight of woodpeckers when going for any considerable distance. P. mindorensis is exceedingly abundant in Mindoro." (Bourns and Worcester MS.)

298. PENELOPIDES AFFINIS Tweeddale.

ALLIED TARICTIC.

Penelopides affinis Tweeddale, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (1877), (4), 20, 534; Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1892), 17, 375; Sharpe, Hand-List (1900), 2, 65; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 56.

Dinagat (Everett); Mindanao (Everett, Koch & Schadenberg, Steere Exp., Goodfellow, Clemens, Celestino).

"Adult male.--Top of the head and neck yellowish white; cheeks, ear-coverts, and feathered part of throat black; back, rump, upper tail-coverts, and wings black, glossed with dark green; breast, belly, thighs, and under tail-coverts white, tinged with buff; tail white (stained rufous), with a wide terminal black band and some black at the base of the feathers, sometimes a band nearly as wide as at the extremity. 'Naked skin round eye and on chin and throat white; iris crimson; feet greenish lead; nails grayish black; basal half of bill and casque dark brown, rest of bill pale brown; base of the lower mandible with three or four obliquely transverse yellow ridges separated by dark brown grooves.' (Everett.) Length, 500; wing, 236; tail, 195; tarsus, 41.