334 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 



"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 pri- 

 maries, 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 

 Avhite 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, nimp, 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, 

 231; 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. (190.3). 23, 190; McGrexx)R 

 and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 56. 



Talisi, native name. 

 Luzon {van der Valk). 



Adult male. — Appears to differ from P. manilkp 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.* 



'■' The description of the male, as given by Dr. Finsch, is as follows : 

 "Alt«s Mannchen. Oberseite des Kopfes, Hals und alle unteren Theile (einsch- 

 liesslich der unteren Schwanzdecken) rostgelblichweiss ; Wangen und Ohrgegend, 



