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front of each eye; face white slightly tinged with buff; stiff ruff-feathers 
white, the outer ones with blackgshafts and blackish brown tips; sides 
of neck light tawny-buff with lafge brown spots; under parts white with 
a few 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 brown; primary-coverts orange- 
buff 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 from anterior border of nostril, 
19; tarsus, 85; middle toe with claw, 55. 
Female (Batan Island, June, 1907).—Similar to the male from Ben- 
guet but darker; under parts heavily washed with ocherous-buff; face 
washed with vinaceous-brown; the blackish spots of under parts more 
numerous. Length, 406; wing, 368; tail, 130. 
The. difference in walt between thie 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, February 15, 1906)—Wings and 
tail, as far as developed, like those of the adult; body and legs thickly 
covered with yellowish buff down. 
Order PSITTACIFORMES. 
COCKATOOS AND PARROTS. 
Bill short, extremely strong; upper 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, or rarely spheroidal; 
deposited in hollow trees. 
Families. 
a’, Hook of bill underneath nearly smooth or with very superficial longitudinal 
ridges, but with no distinct file-like surface....-...............-..-..-- Loriide (p. 272) 
a’, Hook of bill underneath with a series of transverse ridges more or less bent 
along the median line and producing a file-like surface. 
bt. Head crested; plumage nearly all white.................-....-.------ Cacatuide (p. 273) 
b*. Head without crest; plumage nearly all green, or green and blue, never white. 
Psittacide (p. 275) 
Family LORIDZ. 
“Bill much compressed, generally longer than deep, not notched, and 
smooth ; culmen rounded and narrow; lower mandible rather long, with 
the gonys narrow, straight, and obliquely slanting upward, not flattened 
