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middle toe with claw, 23. Iris brown; legs, feet, and nails pale flesh- 
color; upper mandible black, lower_nearly white.” (Bourns and Wor- 
cester MS.) 
Genus DASYCROTAPHA Tweeddale, 1878. 
“Base of maxilla densely clothed with short feathers, space behind the 
eye naked; bill about the length of head, and formed as in Mizornis; 
wing lengthened, longer than tail; first primary half the length of the 
second, which is a fifth shorter than the third; third a little shorter than 
the fourth, which is equal to fifth and sixth; tail moderate and square ; 
tarsus strong; hallux with claw stout and long; digits short and slender ; 
outer a little longer than inner.” (T'weeddale.) 
504. DASYCROTAPHA SPECIOSA Tweeddale. 
BEAUTIFUL ROUGHTEMPLE. 
Dasycrotapha speciosa TWEEDDALE, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1878), 114, pl. 9; 
SHARPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1883), 7, 574; Hand-List (1903), 4, 
51; McGrecor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 81. 
Negros (Hverett, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, Celestino). 
Male.— ‘Head crested; forehead with dense short plumes covering the 
base of the maxilla; circle round the eye, whole space before the eye, 
tuft on the side of the base of mandible, chin and uppermost part of 
throat pure lemon-yellow ; crown of the head black; post occipital plumes 
yellow; nape yellowish green tipped with black; a lengthened tuft of 
plumes springing from above the eye bright orange: a line immediately 
below this tuft black; a tuft of stiff decomposed feathers springing from 
below the eye and extending over the ears white or grayish white; an 
irregular band across the throat black; dorsal feathers gray with light 
olive-green tips and white shafts; uropygium yellowish green; upper 
tail-coverts the same, tinged with rufous; lower throat and upper breast 
bright yellow, most of the feathers with black terminal drops; lower 
breast and rest of under plumage duller yellow tinged with green on the 
flanks; quills brown margined with yellowish olive-green, inner margin 
of quills pale vellow; wing-coverts dull olive-green, carpal edge and wing- 
lining yellow; tail dull rufous. ‘Iris crimson; bill orange-yellow.’ 
(Everett.) Wing, 66; tail, 60; tarsus, 22; culmen, 19.” (T'weeddale.) 
“Only three specimens of this rare bird were obtained by us. They 
were all secured in the deep forest, where they were feeding among the 
leaves of low trees. We feel quite confident that we saw D. spectosa in 
Panay on one occasion, but the one individual observed escaped us. 
Three specimens average as follows: Wing, 66; tail, 57; culmen, 17; 
tarsus, 18; middle toe with claw, 16. Iris reddish brown; legs and feet 
olive-yellow, nails nearly white; bill yellow.” (Bourns ‘and Worcester 
MS.) 
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