Luzon (van der Valk).
Adult male.—Appears to differ from P. manillæ 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.[36]
This species was described from an adult male collected in Cagayan Province, Luzon, February 23, 1892; if it is distinct from P. manillæ, as seems quite probable, we have the interesting case of two species of Penelopides resident in the same island. I have not examined birds referable to P. talisi and the diagnosis is taken from Finsch’s description which will be found in the footnote.
A hornbill collected in Albay Province, Luzon, and recorded by Grant as the young of P. manillæ, Ibis (1895), 261, is believed by Finsch to be P. talisi.
297. PENELOPIDES MINDORENSIS Steere.
MINDORO TARICTIC.
- Penelopides mindorensis Steere, List Birds & Mams. Steere Exped. (1890), 13; Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1892), 17, 374; Sharpe, Hand-List (1900), 2, 65; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 56.
Ta-ric-tic, Mindoro.
Mindoro (Steere Exp., Schmacker, Bourns & Worcester, Everett, Whitehead, McGregor, Porter).
Male.—Crown, sides of neck, and under parts whitish; ear-coverts and band across throat black; hind neck, back, rump, upper tail-coverts, and wings black, glossed with dark green, some of the wing-feathers edged with pale buff; tail chestnut, its terminal third black, outermost feather with entire outer web and most of the inner web black. Wing, 235; tail, 205; bill from nostril, 74.