Guimaras (Meyer, Steere Exp.); Masbate (Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester); Negros (Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, Whitehead); Panay (Sonnerat, Steere Exp., Bourns & 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 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 Masbate, 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 MANILLÆ (Boddaert).
LUZON TARICTIC.