Buceros panini Boddaert, Tabl. Pl. Enl. (1783), 48.
Penelopides panini Walden, Trans. Zool. Soc. (1875), 9, 166,
pl. 28; Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1892), 17, 372; Sharpe,
Hand-List (1900), 2, 65; McGregor, Bur. Govt. Labs. (1905), 25,
25, pl. 9 (nest); McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 56.
Ta-ric'-tic, Ticao; ta-ric', Masbate.
Guimaras (Meyer, Steere Exp.); Masbate (Steere Exp., Bourns &
Worcester); Negros (Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester,
Whitehead); Panay (Sonnerat, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester);
Ticao (McGregor).
Male.--Head, neck, and breast pale buff; cheeks, ear-coverts, and a
band across neck black; back and wings black, glossed with dark green;
abdomen rufous; crissum, thighs, and upper tail-coverts chestnut;
tail light rufous, terminal third black, slightly glossed with
green. Iris red; bare skin of face white; legs dark brown; bill and
casque dull red, base of upper mandible with six or seven vertical
ridges, separated by pale yellow grooves; base of lower mandible
with several oblique grooves. Length, 650; wing, 290; tail, 275;
bill from nostril, 97; tarsus, 48.
Female.--Black; neck, wings, and back glossed with dark green; tail
as in the male but outer web of outermost feather entirely black
and inner web black at base; next feather with outer web black at
base. Iris red; bare skin of head bluish; legs and nails black; bill
black, casque dark red; grooves on upper mandible light yellow. Length,
600; wing, 260; tail, 245; bill from nostril, 78.
"Young female (without casque and only one ridge developed on the
base of the upper mandible).--Differs from the adult in having the
upper tail-coverts chestnut and the middle of the basal part of the
tail-feathers with more black. 'Naked skin round eye and on throat
white, faintly tinged with bluish; iris dull chestnut-brown; feet
dark lead-gray with faint greenish cast, nails black; bill brown,
with olive-green tinge.' (Everett.)" (Grant.)
"Very common in many parts of Panay, Guimaras, Negros, and Masbate,
but curiously enough absent in Cebu. A very noisy bird, called
'ta-ric-tic' by the natives from its note. Food fruit and occasional
beetles. Iris brownish red; legs and feet slate-color; nails black;
bare skin of head white.
"Four males from Masbate measure, 652 in length; wing, 260; tail, 228;
tarsus, 45; middle toe with claw, 52. Four females from same locality,
length, 607; wing, 252; tail, 216; tarsus, 44; middle toe with claw,
47." (Bourns and Worcester MS.)
A set of three eggs of the Panay tarictic taken in Ticao, May 9, 1902,
measure: 48.5 by 32.5; 46.7 by 33.7; 45.7 by 33. In color they are
dull white with no markings except a few nest stains; their surface
is chalky with occasional minute lumps. The eggs were deposited in
a cavity in the trunk of a large tree. The entrance was plastered
up by the birds, leaving but a narrow slit through which the female
was fed by her mate. The female remains within the cavity during the
whole period of incubation. As she molts at this time she is probably
unable to fly even if liberated.