Penelopides talisi Finsch, Notes Leyden Mus. (1903), 23, 190;
McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 56.
Talisi, native name.
Luzon (van der Valk).
Adult male.--Appears to differ from P. manillæ in having no light
edges to the primaries and in the banding of the tail-feathers which is
as follows: Middle pair with a rust-colored cross-band, 25 mm. wide;
on the pair next to the middle the band only one-half as wide; on the
third pair only the inner web with small light rust-colored spots which
form cross-bands; two outermost tail-feathers on each side uniform
brownish black; upper mandible with four basal grooves. Length, 500;
wing, 243; tail, 220; bill, 95. [39]
This species was described from an adult male collected in Cagayan
Province, Luzon, February 23, 1892; if it is distinct from P. manillæ,
as seems quite probable, we have the interesting case of two species of
Penelopides resident in the same island. I have not examined birds
referable to P. talisi and the diagnosis is taken from Finsch's
description which will be found in the footnote.
A hornbill collected in Albay Province, Luzon, and recorded by Grant
as the young of P. manillæ, Ibis (1895), 261, is believed by Finsch
to be P. talisi.