Female.—Similar to the male but forehead blackish and black band on upper throat wider. Wing, 235; tail, 210; bill from nostril, 77.
“Adult male.—Is most nearly allied to P. panini, but differs from that species in having the belly and under tail-coverts white, the rump and upper tail-coverts black glossed with green, like the rest of the back, and the upper mandible only with transversely grooved basal plates. From P. manillæ and affinis it differs (and resembles P. panini) in having no black at the base of the tail. Length, 565; wing, 246; tail, 203; tarsus, 43.” (Grant.)
“Similar to P. manillæ, but black with bronze-green gloss instead of brown as in P. manillæ. The whole base of the tail is light ferruginous instead of this color being limited to a narrow bar as in P. manillæ, and the lower mandible is plain instead of being chiseled as in that species. The female of P. mindorensis has the feathers of the head white as in the male, thus differing from the other Philippines species, in all of which the females are black-headed.
“The males and females of P. mindorensis differ chiefly in the color of the bare skin about the eye and base of the beak, this in life being dark blue in the female and flesh-colored in the male.” (Steere.)
“Habits like those of P. manillæ. All the Philippine representatives of this genus have the peculiar undulating flight of woodpeckers when going for any considerable distance. P. mindorensis is exceedingly abundant in Mindoro.” (Bourns and Worcester MS.)
298. PENELOPIDES AFFINIS Tweeddale.
ALLIED TARICTIC.
- Penelopides affinis Tweeddale, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (1877), (4), 20, 534; Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1892), 17, 375; Sharpe, Hand-List (1900), 2, 65; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 56.
Dinagat (Everett); Mindanao (Everett, Koch & Schadenberg, Steere Exp., Goodfellow, Clemens, Celestino).
“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 black, glossed with dark green; breast, belly, thighs, and under tail-coverts white, tinged with buff; tail white (stained rufous), with a wide terminal black band and some black at the base of the feathers, sometimes a band nearly as wide as at the extremity. ‘Naked skin round eye and on chin and throat white; iris crimson; feet greenish lead; nails grayish black; basal half of bill and casque dark brown, rest of bill pale brown; base of the lower mandible with three or four obliquely transverse yellow ridges separated by dark brown grooves.’ (Everett.) Length, 500; wing, 236; tail, 195; tarsus, 41.