1877.] 



THE ISLAND OF MINDANAO (N.E.), 



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under tail-coverts being of the same colour as the breast, and not rufous, and in the rectrices 

 having a black band at their insertion. 



$ . Bill as in the male, and to that extent differs from that of P. panini $ . The female 

 also differs in having a black band at the base of the rectrices. 



6 

 2 



Wing, 

 in. 



9-25 



8-75 



Tail, 

 in. 



9-00 



8-37 



Tarsus. 

 in. 



1-75 

 1-60 



True culmen. 

 in. 



3-40 

 3-25 



[Butuan, d , May. Iris crimson; orbital skin, nude portion of chin, and imfeathered part 

 of the rami white ; casque, smooth lateral plates of maxilla, and the ungrooved triangular space 

 at base of mandible dark brown ; the whole apical part of maxilla from the smooth lateral 

 plates, and of mandible from the grooved base, pale brown ; grooves on mandible dark brown ; 

 intermediate smooth spaces light ochreous; feet greenish lead-colour; nails greyish black. p.Z.R.1877, 

 a. Butuan, ? , May. Iris crimson ; orbital skin, nude part of chin, and unfeathered part of the P' ^'^^' 

 rami dark blue; bill brown; feet dark greenish leaden, b, c. Surigao, 6 ? , May.] 



FiK. 1. 



Head of Pcnelopides affinis. 



A representative form of P. jpanini, ex Panay, Negros, and Guimaras, but readily to be 

 distinguished from that species and P. maniUce, ex Luzon, by the channelling on the lateral basal 

 walls of the bill. In one example some of the black upper tail-coverts are tipped and margined 



Pis. 2. 



Head of Pcnelopides panini. 



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