“The above specimens are from Mindanao. Birds from Samar average slightly larger. Eyes dull red; legs and feet blue-black to black; bill and nails black.” (Bourns and Worcester MS.)
350. CENTROPUS UNIRUFUS (Cabanis and Heine).
RUFOUS COUCAL.
- Pyrrhocentor unirufus Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein. (1862), 4, 118 (note).
- Centropus unirufus Shelley, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1891), 19, 367; Sharpe, Hand-List (1900), 2, 168; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 64.
Luzon (Heriot, Whitehead, Celestino).
“Adult.—Entire plumage deep rufous, slightly darker above than below; the feathers from the forehead to the mantle have darker glossy shafts than those of the throat and fore part of the chest; the quills with broad brown ends. Bill green, passing into yellow toward the tip and on the edges; legs olive-brown. Length, 400; culmen, 38; wing, 160; tail, 229; tarsus, 43.” (Shelley.)
A female from Bataan Province, Luzon, measures: Wing, 160; tail, 250; culmen from base, 35; tarsus, 40; middle toe with claw, 44.
Subfamily PHÆNICOPHAINÆ.
Genera.
- a1. Nostril in a vertical groove at base of bill. Dryococcyx (p. [387])
- a2. Nostril not in a vertical groove; tail-feathers tipped with white.