Anthracoceros lemprieri Sharpe, Nature (1885), 32, 46
(desc. nulla); Proc. Zool. Soc. (1885), 446, pl. 26; Everett,
Ibis (1895), 30.
Anthracoceros marchii Oustalet, Le Naturaliste (1885), 108.
Gymnolæmus marchii Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1892), 17, 370.
Gymnolæmus lemprieri Sharpe, Hand-List (1900), 2, 65; McGregor
and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 56.
Balabac (Everett); Calamianes (Bourns & Worcester); Palawan
(Marche, Lempriere, Whitehead, Platen, Steere Exp., Celestino).
Adult male.--Rectrices pure white, their shafts pale yellow;
remainder of plumage black, glossed with dark green. A male from
Palawan measures: Length, about 710; wing, 290; tail, 240; bill from
nostril, 111; greatest length of crest, 106; tarsus, 52.
"Adult female.--Resembles the male, but the casque is less developed
and the size smaller. Length, 610; wing, 264; tail, 216; tarsus,
53." (Grant.)
"We saw this bird on several occasions in Palawan, but always in very
high trees, and it was so extremely wild that we did not succeed in
securing any specimens from that island. In the Calamianes Islands we
found it both common and tame. On several occasions we saw it feeding
in low fruit trees within a few feet of the ground.
"Iris brown; legs and feet leaden; nails black; bill white except
base of lower mandible; bare skin of head white. A female measures,
610 in length; wing, 263; tail, 204; tarsus, 46; middle toe with claw,
58." (Bourns and Worcester MS.)
Genus PENELOPIDES Reichenbach, 1849.
Casque small, compressed, ridged on top, its outline curved,
posteriorly falling away gently to the culmen; abruptly or obliquely
truncate in front; basilateral portion of both mandibles with deep
oblique chiseling; part of chin naked but feathered in the middle.
Species.
a1. Abdomen rufous; thighs chestnut. ... panini, [male] (p. 332)
a2. Abdomen and thighs neither chestnut nor rufous.
b1. Breast and abdomen white.
c1. Base of both mandibles with deep grooves; tail black with
a wide band of white or rufous across the middle. ... manillæ,
[male] (p. 333)
c2. Base of upper or lower mandible, but never both, with deep
grooves.
d1. Base of upper mandible only with grooves; no black band at
base of tail; sexes alike in plumage. ... mindorensis (p. 335)
d2. Base of lower mandible only with grooves; tail with some
black at the base.
e1. Upper tail-coverts black.
f1. A black patch on basal half of upper
mandible. ... affinis, [male] (p. 336)
f2. No black patch at base of upper mandible which is
flesh-colored. ... basilanica, [male] (p. 337)
e2. Upper tail-coverts white, tinged with buff. ... samarensis,
[male] (p. 337)
b2. Breast and abdomen black.
c1. Tail black with a rufous band about 25 mm. wide across the
middle; base of each mandible with deep grooves. ... manillæ,
[female] (p. 333); talisi, [female] (p. 334)
c2. Tail rufous, widely tipped with black and with more or less
black at base.
d1. Base of each mandible grooved; black at base of tail almost
obsolete. ... panini, [female] (p. 332)
d2. Base of lower mandible only grooved; black at base of tail
well-marked. ... affinis, [female] (p. 336); basilanica, [female]
(p. 337); samarensis, [female] (p. 337)