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 gai@@sed 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 
white 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, rump, 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, 
221; 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.” (G@rant.) 
296. PENELOPIDES TALISI Finsch. 
NORTHERN TARICTIC, 
Penelopides talisi Finscn, Notes Leyden Mus. (1903), 23, 190; McGrercor 
and WoRCESTER, Hand-List (1906), 56. 
Talisi, native name. 
Luzon (van der Valk). 
Adult male-——Appears to differ from P. manille 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 hght 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: 
“Altes Minnchen. Oberseite des Kopfes, Hals und alle unteren Theile (einsch- 
liesslich der unteren Schwanzdecken) rostgelblichweiss; Wangen und Ohrgegend, 
