A Manual of Philippine Birds

by Richard C. McGregor

“We saw this bird on several occasions in Palawan, but always in very high trees, and it was so extremely wild that we did not succeed in securing any specimens from that island. In the Calamianes Islands we found it both common and tame. On several occasions we saw it feeding in low fruit trees within a few feet of the ground.

“Iris brown; legs and feet leaden; nails black; bill white except base of lower mandible; bare skin of head white. A female measures, 610 in length; wing, 263; tail, 204; tarsus, 46; middle toe with claw, 58.” (Bourns and Worcester MS.)

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

Species.

• a¹. Abdomen rufous; thighs chestnut. panini, ♂ (p. [332])
• a². Abdomen and thighs neither chestnut nor rufous.
  • b¹. Breast and abdomen white.
    • c¹. Base of both mandibles with deep grooves; tail black with a wide band of white or rufous across the middle. manillæ, ♂ (p. [333])
    • c². Base of upper or lower mandible, but never both, with deep grooves.
      • d¹. Base of upper mandible only with grooves; no black band at base of tail; sexes alike in plumage. mindorensis (p. [335])
      • d². Base of lower mandible only with grooves; tail with some black at the base.
  • b². Breast and abdomen black.
    • c¹. Tail black with a rufous band about 25 mm. wide across the middle; base of each mandible with deep grooves. manillæ, ♀ (p. [333]); talisi, ♀ (p. [334])
    • c². Tail rufous, widely tipped with black and with more or less black at base.
      • d¹. Base of each mandible grooved; black at base of tail almost obsolete. panini, ♀ (p. [332])
      • d². Base of lower mandible only grooved; black at base of tail well-marked. affinis, ♀ (p. [336]); basilanica, ♀ (p. [337]); samarensis, ♀ (p. [337])

294. PENELOPIDES PANINI (Boddaert).

PANAY TARICTIC.

• Buceros panini Boddaert, Tabl. Pl. Enl. (1783), 48.
• Penelopides panini Walden, Trans. Zool. Soc. (1875), 9, 166, pl. 28; Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1892), 17, 372; Sharpe, Hand-List (1900), 2, 65; McGregor, Bur. Govt. Labs. (1905), 25, 25, pl. 9 (nest); McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 56.

Ta-ric′-tic, Ticao; ta-ric′, Masbate.