Trichoglossus johnstoniæ Hartert, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club (1903),
14, 10; Novit. Zool. (1906), 13, 755; McGregor and Worcester,
Hand-List (1906), 48; Grant, Ibis (1906), 495; Goodfellow,
Avicult. Mag. (1906), 4, 83 (plate).
Mindanao (Goodfellow, Waterstradt).
Adult.--"Forehead dark rosy red, in the male obscured by greenish
tips to the feathers; narrow loral line and broad line from the
eyes backward meeting (in the female indistinctly) on the nape,
dark brownish purple (not quite as dark as 'prune-purple', Ridgway's
Nomenclature of Colors, pl. 8, fig. 1); rest of crown and whole upper
surface grass-green, the inner webs of remiges and first primary on
both webs black, all, with the exception of the first three, with
a large sulphur-yellow patch in the middle of inner webs; feathers
round the mandible to ear-coverts dark rose-red, those toward the
ear-coverts, with yellowish-green tips; feathers of under surface
dull sulphur-yellow, with gray bases and broad green tips; lower
abdomen and under tail-coverts more greenish yellow, the green tips
less distinct; under wing-coverts yellowish green, those near edge of
wing dark green and some of the longest ones pale yellow; tail from
below greenish brownish-yellow. Wing, 106 to 108; tail, 71 to 74;
bill from cere to tip, [male], 14.5; [female], 12; metatarsus about
13. 'Bill yellowish red.'" (Hartert.)
Known only from specimens collected on Mount Apo, Mindanao.
Family CACATUIDÆ.
Bill very strong; edge of upper mandible strongly sinuate; lower
mandible with the lower face wide and slightly rounded; a large
unfeathered space about the eye; head crested; tail moderate and
square; plumage nearly all white in the single Philippine species.
Subfamily CACATUINÆ.
Genus CACATUA Vieillot, 1817.
Characters same as those given for the Family.