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Genus PENELOPIDES Reichenbach, 1849. 



Casque small, compressed, ridged on top, its outline curved, posteriorly 

 falling away gently to the culmen; abruptly or obliquely truncate in 

 front; basilateral portion of both mandibles with deep oblique chisel- 

 ing; part of chin naked but feathered in the middle. 



Species. 



a 1 . Abdomen rufous; thighs chestnut panini. ^ (p. 332) 



a 2 . Abdomen and thighs neither chestnut nor rufous. 

 b l . Breast and abdomen white. 



c 1 . Base of both mandibles with deep grooves; tail black with a wide band of 



white or rufous across the middle manillae, (p. 333) 



c 2 . Base of upper or lower mandible, but never both, with deep grooves. 



d 1 . Base of upper mandible only with grooves; BO black band at base of 



tail; sexes alike in plumage mindorensis (p. 335) 



d 2 . Base of lower mandible only with grooves; tail with some black at the 



base. 

 e l . Upper tail-coverts black. 



f 1 . A black patch on basal half of upper mandible. affinis, < (p. 336) 



/*. No black patch at base of upper mandible which is flesh-colored. 



basilanica, < (p. 337) 



e 2 . Upper tail-coverts white, tinged with buff samarensis, < (p. 337) 



6 2 . Breast and abdomen black. 

 c 1 . Tail black with a rufous band about 25 mm. wide across j manillae, $ (p. 333) 



the middle; base of each mandible with deep grooves. .(talisi, $ (p. 334) 

 e 2 . Tail rufous, widely tipped with black and with more or less black at base. 

 d 1 . Base of each mandible grooved; black at base of tail almost obsolete. 



panini,? (p. 332) 



d 2 . Base of lower mandible only grooved; black at ( affinis > 9 <P- 336 ) 



base of tail well-marked basilanica, 9 ( p. 337) 



I samarensis,? (p. 337) 



294. PENELOPIDES PANINI (Boddaert). 

 PANAY TABICTIC. 



Buceroa panini BODDAEBT, Tabl. PI. Enl. (1783), 48. 



Penelopides panini WALDEN, Trans. Zool. Soc. (1875), 9, 166, pi. 28; GRANT, 

 Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1892), 17, 372; SHABPE, Hand-List (1900), 2, 

 65; MCGREGOR, Bur. Govt. Labs. (1905), 25, 25, pi. 9 (nest); Mc- 

 GBEGOB and WOBCESTEB, Hand-List (1906), 56. 



Ta-ric'-tic, Ticao ; ta-ric', Masbate. 



Guimaras (Meyer, Steere Exp.) ; Masbate (Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester) ; 

 Negros (Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns d Worcester, Whitehead) ; Panay (Son- 

 nerat, Steere Exp., Bourns d Worcester) ; Ticao (McGregor). 



Male. Head, neck, and breast pale buff; cheeks, ear-coverts, and a 

 band across neck black ; back and wings black, glossed with dark green ; 

 abdomen rufous; crissum, thighs, and upper tail-coverts chestnut; tail 

 light rufous, terminal third black, slightly glossed with green. Iris red ; 

 bare skin of face white; legs dark brown; bill and casque dull red, base 



