Adult.—Upper parts, including margins of wing-feathers and rectrices, reddish brown (walnut-brown of Ridgway); head slightly darker; sides of neck like the back; auriculars vinaceous-cinnamon; under parts white; chin, throat, and fore breast streaked with cinnamon; sides of breast and flanks cinnamon; crissum washed with pale canary-yellow. A male from Tawi Tawi measures: Wing, 84; tail, 66; culmen from base, 18; bill from nostril, 11; tarsus, 20. A female, wing, 74; tail, 62; culmen from base, 17; bill from nostril, 10; tarsus, 20.
“Common in Tawi Tawi, less so in Sulu. A deep woods bird; tame and easily shot. Feeds on insects, and usually keeps some distance above the ground. Six males average: Length, 157; wing, 81; tail, 64; culmen, 17.8; tarsus, 19.5; middle toe with claw, 18. Four females, length, 150; wing, 77; tail, 63; culmen, 17.8; tarsus, 19; middle toe with claw, 17.8. Iris dark brown; legs, feet, and nails light brown; bill black. Breeding in Tawi Tawi in the month of September.” (Bourns and Worcester MS.)
Family PARIDÆ.
Bill conoidal and stout, shorter than head; no notch in cutting edge, and tip not hooked; nostrils slightly oval, hidden by the antrorse frontal plumes; rictal bristles short and inconspicuous; wing flat and somewhat pointed; first primary less than one-half of second, the latter less than the third; fourth and fifth longest; third and sixth about equal in length; rectrices broad with nearly square tips; tail much shorter than wing; tarsus stout, less than twice the bill from nostril, distinctly scutellate in front; basal joints of anterior toes more or less united.
Genera.
- a1. Breast and abdomen yellow; rectrices tipped with white or with pale yellow. Pardaliparus (p. [604])
- a2. Breast and abdomen black, or dull brown, nearly uniform in color with the back; rectrices without white or light-colored tips. Penthornis (p. [608])
Genus PARDALIPARUS Selys-Longchamps, 1884.
Chin, throat, and much or all of the head black; breast and abdomen yellow; rectrices and many of the wing-feathers with wide tips of white or of pale yellow.
Species.
- a1. A broad yellow band from below eye
across auriculars to side of neck, separating the black of chin and
throat from the black of head.
- b1. Larger; bill longer; spots on
wing-coverts larger and more nearly white.
- c1. Bill much smaller; spot on hind neck and stripe on side of head and neck bright canary-yellow.
- c2. Bill much larger; spot on neck and stripe on side of head and neck very pale yellow. edithæ (p. [606])
- b2. Smaller; bill shorter; spots on wing-coverts smaller and washed with yellow. mindanensis (p. [607])
- b1. Larger; bill longer; spots on
wing-coverts larger and more nearly white.
- a2. No yellow band on side of head and neck, which are entirely black. amabilis (p. [607])