Buceros manillæ Boddaert, Tabl. Pl. Enl. (1783), 54.
Penelopides manillæ Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1892), 17, 373;
McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 56.
Penelopides manillæ Sharpe, Hand-List (1900), 2, 65.
Ta-lic-tic, native name in vicinity of Manila.
Luzon (Cuming, Meyer, Everett, Heriot, Marche, Steere Exp.,
Whitehead, McGregor); Marinduque (Steere Exp.).
"Adult male.--Top of the head and neck yellowish white; cheeks,
ear-coverts, and feathered part of throat black; back, rump, upper
tail-coverts, and wings brown, more or less glossed with dull green,
most of the primaries, the secondaries, and their coverts narrowly
margined with buff on the outer web; breast, belly, thighs, and
under tail-coverts white, tinged with buff; basal half of tail dark
brown, succeeded by a wide white band (stained rufous) followed
by a terminal black band glossed with green; the outer web of the
outer tail-feathers is uniform black; naked skin round eye and
on chin and throat white. Iris crimson; feet and nails dull black;
casque transparent horn-brown; bill dark brown; the base of the upper
mandible with five transverse ridges, that of the lower with about
four oblique ridges separated by ocher-colored grooves. Length, 525;
wing, 233; tail, 188; tarsus, 43.
"Young male differs from the adult in having the upper tail-coverts
chestnut and the buff edges to the quills and coverts much wider.
"Adult female.--Head and neck very dark brown; back, rump, upper
tail-coverts, and wings dark brown, glossed with dull green;
under parts brownish gray, tinged with buff on the breast; tail
as in the male adult; naked skin round eye and on chin and throat
purplish. Iris brown; legs and feet dull black; bill and casque as
in the male. Length, 483; wing, 221; tail, 185; tarsus, 41.
"Young female with half developed casque differs from the adult
in having the under parts buff, edges of both the webs of the
tail-feathers margined with brown, and the upper tail-coverts and
the ends of the feathers suffused with bright buff." (Grant.)