SAMAR TARICTIC.
- Penelopides samarensis Steere, List Birds & Mams. Steere Exped. (1890), 13; Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1892), 17, 376; Sharpe, Hand-List (1900), 2, 65; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 56.
Tao-sí, Bohol.
Bohol (McGregor); Leyte (Everett, Steere Exp.); Samar (Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, Whitehead).
Male.—Very similar to the male of P. affinis but upper tail-coverts very pale buff. Wing, 260; tail, 230; bill from nostril, 90.
Female.—Like the female of P. affinis. Wing, 235; tail, 225; bill from nostril, 72.
“A well-marked species. Five males average, 606 in length; wing, 232; tail, 208; tarsus, 42; middle toe with claw, 52. Eyes reddish brown; legs and feet slaty black; nails brown to black; bill dark brown, reddish at the tip and around grooves.
“It seems probable that Everett’s Dinagat birds were of this species, but they can, of course, be placed here only provisionally.” (Bourns and Worcester MS.)
Genus CRANIORRHINUS Cabanis and Heine, 1860.
Jaw, entire chin, and a large space around eye naked and bright red; base of lower mandible deeply and obliquely chiseled, upper mandible smooth; casque high, greatly compressed, its outline gently rounded behind and abruptly truncated in front; in the female the casque is smooth and has a sharp ridge above, in the male it is somewhat rounded above, and the sides are distorted by deep vertical plications.