7. PENELOPTDES. 371 



tail, which is white ; the upper parts arc glossed with dark bluish 

 green : casque and hill yellowish white, the only black patch being 

 at the base of the lower mandible; bare skin round the eye and on 

 the throat reddish yellow (in skin); legs and feet blackish. Total 

 length 28 inches, wing 11-8, tail •J-4, tarsus 2-2. 



Adult female. Resembles the male, but the casque is less deve- 

 loped and the size smaller. Total length 24 inches, wing 10-4, 

 tail 8-5, tarsus 2-1, 



llab. Palawan. 



a. cS ad. sk. Palawan. M. Lempriere [C.]. 



(Type of Anth. /emprieri, Sharpe.) 

 b,c. 2ad.etimru.sk. Palawan. " M. Lempriere [C]. 



7. PENELOPIDES. 



Type. 

 Penelopides, Reich. Syst. Av. pi. xlix. (1849) P. pauini. 



Bill fairlj' large and curved. Casque moderate, compres.sed, and 

 somewhat elevated, covering the basal three fifths of the culmeu 

 and not extending over the skull. Basal half of both mandibles 

 covered with a plate, and either or both transversely grooved. Tail 

 subequal, white (stained rufous), with wide black ends or entirely 

 black. Crest moderate. 



Range. Celebes and the Philippine Islands. 



Key to the Species. 



I. Belly rufous ; base of both mandibles with 



grooved plates jjanrai (^ , p. 372. 



II. lielly white tiuged with buff. 



</. P>ase of both mandibles with grooved 

 plates ; tail black, with a wide band of 

 white (stained rufous) across the middle, 

 upper parts brownish black maniUce J , p. .37:3. 



b. Base of upper mandible only with grooved 



plate ; tail with no black at the base, 

 upper parts brownish black glossed with 

 greeu nividoi-eusw cJ *, p. 374. 



c. Base of lower mandible only with grooved 



plate ; upper parts black glossed with 

 green ; tail with some black at the base. 

 o'. Upper tail-coverts black. 



a". A black patch on the basal half of 



the upper mandible affltu's c? , p. 375. 



/j". Upper mandible flesh-coloured to 



the base hasilanica (^ , p. 375. 



b'. Upper tail-coverts white tinged with 

 buff, like underparts ; a black patch on 

 the basal half of upper mandible .... samarensis tS , p. 376. 



* The British Museum does not possess a female of this species, but Pro- 

 fessor Steere, in his ' List of the Birds and Mammals,' p. l.j, says the females 

 differ only from the males in having the bare -skin round the eye and at the 

 base of Ihe mandibles dark blue instead of flesh-coloured! 



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