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 glossed 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." (Grant.) 



296. PENELOPIDES TALISI Finsch. 

 NORTHERN TARICTIC. 



Penelopides talisi FINSCH, Notes Leyden Mus. (1903), 23, 190; McGREGOB 

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



Talisi, native name. 

 Luzon (van der Valk). 



Adult male. Appears to differ from P. manillce 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 light 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 Mannchen. Oberseite des Kopfes, Hals und alle unteren Theile (einsch- 

 liesslich der unteren Schwanzdecken ) rostgelblichweiss ; Wangen und Ohrgegend, 



