272 MAMAI. OF I'IIIMI'I'IM: 1'.IH1>S. 



front of each eve ; I'ace white 8li<Tlitly tiii<ie(l with hutT; still' niH'-featliers 

 white, the outer ones with bUick shafts and blaekisli Itrown tips; sides 

 of neck light tawny-buff with large l>rown spots; under i)arts white with 

 a feAV small black spots on breast and flanks; breast faintly washed with 

 buff; wing-lining and axillars white with larger black spots; primaries 

 and secondaries, above light buff, with dark brown bars and whitish tips, 

 below white, the tips of primaries dark l)r(iwii: primary-coverts orange- 

 Imff basally ; rectrices white with four blackish brown bars, the bars 

 obsolete on outermost pair. Bill white, legs dirty brown; nails brown. 

 Length, 395; wing, 355; tail, 135; bill froiii antcrioi- border of nostril, 

 19; tarsus, 85; middle toe with claw, 55. 



Female (Bafan L^Jand, .June, I'.IOl). — Simihii- to the male from Kcii- 

 guet but darker; under parts iieavily washed witli ocherous-buff ; fa'c 

 washed witii vinaceous-brown; the blackish spots of under ])arts uioic 

 numerous. Length, 406; wing, 308; tail, 130. 



The difference in color between the male and female, as described 

 above, is not due to either age or sex and occurs in many, if not in all. 

 of the members of this genus. 



Nestling (Laguna Province, Luzon. Fchninn/ 1'). UJOd). — Wings and 

 tail, as far as developed, like those of tlic M(hilt : body and legs thickly 

 covered with yellowish buff down. 



( )r(U r PSIT TA( IFORMES. 



COCKATOOS AND PARROTS. 



Bill short, extremely strong; ui)per mandible movable, cered and 

 strongly hooked as in the birds of prey ; toes four, the outer toe per- 

 manently reversed; tarsus short and stout, covered with small scales. 

 Eggs pure white, seldom with any gloss; oval, oi' rarely spheroidal; 

 deposited in hollow trees. 



Fauiilien. 



a^. Hook of t)ill iiiuh'rncatli nearly sniootli or with very superfirial loiij,Mt<i(liiial 



ridges, but with no distinct tile-like surface Loriidae (p. 272) 



o". Hook of bill underneath with a series of transverse ridges more or less bent 

 along the median line and producing a file-like surface. 



ft'. Head crested ; plumage nearly all white Cacatuidae (p. 27;i) 



V. Head w itlioiit crest : plumage nearly all green, or green and l)hie, never white. 



Psittacidse ( p. 275) 



Family LORIID^. 



"Bill nuich compressed, generally longer than deep, not notched, and 

 smooth; culmen rounded and narrow; lower mandible rather long, with 

 the gonys narrow, straight, and oljlicpiely slanting uj)ward, not flattened 



