Nostril hidden by stiff antrorse feathers; eye surrounded by a large area of bare skin; on each side of crown, from lores to nape, a line of harsh, decomposed, and lengthened feathers; wing short; tail long and graduated.
352. DASYLOPHUS SUPERCILIOSUS (Cuvier).
ROUGH-CRESTED CUCKOO.
- Phœnicophaus superciliosus Cuvier, Dict. Hist. Nat. (1826), 10, 55.
- Dasylophus superciliosus Shelley, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1891), 19, 403; Sharpe, Hand-List (1900), 2, 172; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 64.
Bá-sac ba-yú-cu, Manila.
Catanduanes (Whitehead); Luzon (Cuming, Meyer, Möllendorff, Steere, Steere Exp., Whitehead, McGregor, Celestino); Marinduque (Steere Exp.).
“Adult male.—General plumage above glossy blackish green, with a partial blue shade; a very distinct eyebrow of bright crimson elongated tufts of hair-like feathers extending from the nostrils to behind the bare orbital patch, which latter is bright orange; the base of many of the red tufts white and forming a narrow partial eyebrow next to the bare skin; tail with broad white ends to the feathers; under parts dusky olive, inclining to black toward the chin, thighs, and under tail-coverts, the latter partially glossed with green. ‘Iris pure chrome-yellow; orbital skin and base of bill fiery orange; bill pale green; legs greenish chrome; claws dark gray.’ (Everett.) Length, 394; culmen, 38; wing, 157; tail, 241; tarsus, 38.
“Adult female.—Similar in plumage to the male. Length, 389; culmen, 38; wing, 155; tail, 231; tarsus, 37.” (Shelley.)
A male from Bataan Province, Luzon, measures: Wing, 160; tail, 240; culmen from base, 36; bill from nostril, 27; tarsus, 35; middle toe with claw, 33.