A Manual of Philippine Birds

by Richard C. McGregor

Species.[34]

• a¹. Cheeks blue.
  • b¹. Cheeks and collar pale blue. lunulatus, ♂ (p. [285])
  • b². Cheeks and collar bright blue. intermedius, ♂ (p. [285])
• a². Cheeks green.
  • b¹. Collar deep blue. mindanensis, ♂ (p. [286])
  • b². Collar yellow, with crescent-like black bands. lunulatus, ♀ (p. [285]); mindanensis, ♀ (p. [286])
  • b³. Collar faint orange-yellow. intermedius, ♀ (p. [285])

246. BOLBOPSITTACUS LUNULATUS (Scopoli).

LUZON GUAIABERO.

• Psittacus lunulatus Scopoli, Del. Flor. et Faun. Insubr. (1786), 86.
• Bolbopsittacus lunulatus Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1891), 20, 504; Sharpe, Hand-List (1900), 2, 34; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 49.

Bo-bó-toc, gua-ya-bé-ro, Luzon.

Luzon (Cuming, Möllendorff, Steere, Meyer, Everett, Steere Exp., Whitehead, McGregor).

Male.—General color green, lighter below; lores, orbit, cheeks, a narrow line on forehead, and a narrow collar on hind neck pale blue; lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts light greenish yellow; the longest coverts clear green; primaries, primary-coverts, and alula blue on outer webs, inner webs black; ends of primaries more or less green; on under side of wing a pale yellowish band across inner webs of secondaries and shorter primaries; rectrices green above, blue below. Iris brown, cere black; bill black, with base white; legs dull green; nails horn-brown. In the female all of the lower mandible is dirty white. Three males and three females from Bataan Province average, wing, 98; tail, 36; culmen from cere, 18; tarsus, 13.

Female.—Differs from the male in having the lower parts lighter green; blue of head confined to feathers of lower cheeks overhanging chin on each side; a narrow ring of light green around eye; collar on hind neck yellow, each feather with two narrow crescentic lines of blackish green; lower back and rump green, with blackish crescentic marks. Same size as the male.