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of upper mandible with six or seven vertical ridges, separated by pale 

 yellow grooves; base of lower mandible with several oblique grooves. 

 Length, 650 ; wing, 290 ; tail, 275 ; bill from nostril, 97 ; tarsus, 48. 



Female. Black; neck, wings, and back glossed with dark green; tail 

 as in the male but outer web of outermost feather entirely black and 

 inner web black at base; next feather with outer web black at base. 

 Iris red ; bare skin of head bluish ; legs and nails black ; bill black, casque 

 dark red; grooves on upper mandible light yellow. Length, 600; wing, 

 260 ; tail, 245 ; bill from nostril, 78. 



"Young female (without casque and only one ridge developed on the 

 base of the upper mandible). Differs from the adult in having the 

 upper tail-coverts chestnut and the middle of the basal part of the tail- 

 feathers with more black. 'Naked skin round eye and on throat white, 

 faintly tinged with bluish; iris dull chestnut-brown; feet dark lead-gray 

 with faint greenish cast, nails black; bill brown, with olive-green tinge.' 

 (Everett.)" (Grant.) 



"Very common in many parts of Panay, Guimaras, Negros, and Mas- 

 bate, but curiously enough absent in Cebu. A very noisy bird, called 

 'ta-ric-tic' by the natives from its note. Food fruit and occasional 

 beetles. Iris brownish red; legs and feet slate-color; nails black; bare 

 skin of head white. 



"Four males from Masbate measure, 652 in length; wing, 260; tail, 

 228; tarsus, 45; middle toe with claw, 52. Four females from same 

 locality, length, 607; wing, 252; tail, 216; tarsus, 44; middle toe with 

 claw, 47." (Bourns and Worcester MS.) 



A set of three eggs of the Panay tarictic taken in Ticao, May 9, 1902, 

 measure: 48.5 by 32.5; 46,7 by 33.7; 45.7 by 33. In color they are 

 dull white with no markings except a few nest stains; their surface is 

 chalky with occasional minute lumps. The eggs were deposited in a 

 cavity in the trunk of a large tree. The entrance was plastered up by 

 the birds, leaving but a narrow slit through which the female was fed 

 by her mate. The female remains within the cavity during the whole 

 period of incubation. As she molts at this time she is probably unable to 

 fly even if liberated. 



295. PENELOPIDES MANILLXE (Boddaert). 

 LUZON TARICTIC. 



Buceros manillce BODDAERT, Tabl. PI. Enl. (1783), 54. 

 Penelopides manillce GRANT, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1892), 17, 373; MC- 

 GREGOR and WORCESTER, Hand-List (1906), 56. 

 Penelopides manillce SHARPE, Hand-List (1900), 2, 65. 



Ta-lic-tic, native name in vicinity of Manila. 



Luzon (Cuming, Meyer, Everett, Heriot, Marche, Steere Exp., Whitehead, Mc- 

 Gregor) ; Marinduque (Steere Eaep.) . 



