Tanygnathus everetti Tweeddale, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (1877),
20, (4), 533; Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1891), 20, 432,
pl. 10; Sharpe, Hand-List (1900), 2, 30; Whitehead, Ibis (1899),
398; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 49.
Luzon (Whitehead); Mindanao (Everett, Steere Exp., Celestino);
Negros (Whitehead); Panay (Steere Exp.).
Male.--General color green; entire head and neck grass-green, the
neck with a yellow tinge; mantle grass-green, each feather edged with
dark blue; back and rump dark blue; tail-coverts green, some of them
edged with blue; wings green, some of the smaller coverts edged with
yellowish green; under parts green, some feathers on abdomen and sides
of breast slightly edged with blue; tail-feathers above green with
yellowish tips, below golden yellow. Bill bright red, feet blackish
in skin. Length, 330; wing, 196; tail, 136; culmen from cere, 31.
Female.--Like the male but the bill white. Wing, 195; tail, 138;
culmen from cere, 31.
"Rare about Zamboanga. Only one specimen obtained. Mr. Moseley, of the
Steere Expedition, killed one specimen in Panay, and Mr. Worcester
saw another so near that there was no room for doubt as to its
identity. Two specimens in the Jesuit Museum at Manila are marked
'Negros.' We searched for it in vain in Samar." (Bourns and Worcester
MS.)
"This parrot may prove to have a much wider distribution in the
Philippines than is at present known, our discovery of the bird in
north Luzon being a mere chance. * * * Male, iris orange; bill rosy
red; feet dull olive-brown; female, iris orange; bill creamy white;
feet dull olive-brown." (Whitehead.)