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“Adult male.—Is most nearly allied to P. panini, but differs from that 
species in having the belly and under tail-coverts white, the rump and 
upper tail-coverts black glossed ##h green, like the rest of the back, and 
the upper mandible only with transversely grooved basal plates. From 
P. manille and affinis it differs (and resembles P. panini) in having no 
black at the base of the tail. Length, 565; wing, 246; tail, 203; tarsus, 
43.” (Grant.) 
“Similar to P. manille, but black with bronze-green gloss instead of 
brown as in P. manille. The whole base of the tail is light ferruginous 
instead of this color being limited to a narrow bar as in P. manille, and 
the lower mandible is plain instead of being chiseled as in that species. 
The female of P. mindorensis has the feathers of the head white as in 
the male, thus differing from the other Philippines species, in all of which 
the females are black-headed. 
“The males and females of P. mindorensis differ chiefly in the color 
of the bare skin about the eye and base of the beak, this in life being 
dark blue in the female and flesh-colored in the male.” (Steere.) 
“Habits like those of P. manille. All the Philippine representatives 
of this genus have the peculiar undulating flight of woodpeckers when 
going for any considerable distance. P. mindorensis is exceedingly 
abundant in Mindoro.” (Bourns and Worcester MS.) 
298. PENELOPIDES AFFINIS Tweeddale. 
ALLIED TARICTIC. 
Penelopides affiris TWEEDDALE, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (1877), (4). 20, 
534; GRANT, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1892), 17, 375; SHaARre, Hand- 
List (1900), 2, 65; McGrecor and WoRcESTER, Hand-List (1906), 56. 
Dinagat (Hverett); Mindanao (Everett, Koch & Schadenberg, Steere Ezxp., 
Goodfellow, Clemens, Celestino). 
“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 black, glossed with dark green; breast, belly, thighs, and under 
tail-coverts white, tinged with buff; tail white (stained rufous), with a 
wide terminal black band and some black at the base of the feathers, 
sometimes a band nearly as wide as at the extremity. ‘Naked skin round 
eye and on chin and throat white; iris crimson; feet greenish lead ; nails 
grayish black; basal half of bill and casque dark brown, rest of bill pale 
brown ; base of the lower mandible with three or four obliquely transverse 
yellow ridges separated by dark brown grooves.’ (Hverett.) Length, 
500; wing, 236; tail, 195; tarsus, 41. 
“Young male (with undeveloped casque) differs from the adult in 
having the upper tail-coverts chestnut and the black band across the end 
of the tail suffused with rufous. 
“Adult female.——Head, neck, and under parts dull black; back, rump, 
