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

Luzon (Cuming, Meyer, Everett, Heriot, Marche, Steere Exp., Whitehead, McGregor); Marinduque (Steere Exp.).

“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 primaries, 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.

Talisi, native name.