Genus SARCOPHANOPS Sharpe, 1877.
Eye surrounded by a wide fleshy wattle; tail short, rectrices strongly graduated; wings moderate, first primary shorter than sixth, fourth longest; a well-defined wing-bar across the secondaries.
Species.
- a1. Back gray; wing-bar yellow and white. steeri (p. [410])
- a2. Back vinaceous; wing-bar vinaceous and white. samarensis (p. [411])
377. SARCOPHANOPS STEERI (Sharpe).
STEERE’S BROADBILL.
- Eurylamus steerii Sharpe, Nature (1876), 14, 297.
- Sarcophanops steerii Sharpe, Trans. Linn. Soc. (1877), 1, 344, pl. 54; Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1888), 14, 462; Bourns and Worcester, Occ. Papers Minnesota Acad. Nat. Sci. (1804), 1, 53; Hartert, Genera Avium, Eurylæmidæ (1905), 6, pl. 1, fig. 6 (head).
- Sarcophanops steerei Sharpe, Hand-List (1901), 3, 2; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 68.
Basilan (Steere, Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, McGregor); Dinagat (Everett); Mindanao (Steere Exp., Platen, Bourns & Worcester, Celestino).
Adult male.—Forehead and crown deep purple; a few spots of scarlet on occiput, not always present; feathers at base of bill with white bases; lores black; a white collar around neck; hind neck, back, and scapulars slate-gray; rump and tail-coverts chestnut, tipped with purple; tail chestnut; chin, throat, and sides of head black; breast, abdomen, and sides lilac, bases of the feathers white; middle of abdomen white; under tail-coverts white, tinged with lilac; thighs blackish gray; wings black; edge of wing and of first primary white; a distinct bar of golden yellow on secondaries, changing to white on inner secondaries; wing-lining black, axillars white. A male from Basilan measures: Wing, 85; tail, 64; culmen from base, 22; bill from nostril, 14; tarsus, 20; middle toe with claw, 22.
Adult female.—Similar, but under parts pure white except the black chin and throat and gray thighs. A female from Basilan measures: Wing, 86; tail, 64; culmen from base, 23; bill from nostril, 15; tarsus, 20; middle toe with claw, 21.