Penelopides mindorensis Steere, List Birds & Mams. Steere
Exped. (1890), 13; Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1892), 17, 374;
Sharpe, Hand-List (1900), 2, 65; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List
(1906), 56.
Ta-ric-tic, Mindoro.
Mindoro (Steere Exp., Schmacker, Bourns & Worcester, Everett,
Whitehead, McGregor, Porter).
Male.--Crown, sides of neck, and under parts whitish; ear-coverts and
band across throat black; hind neck, back, rump, upper tail-coverts,
and wings black, glossed with dark green, some of the wing-feathers
edged with pale buff; tail chestnut, its terminal third black,
outermost feather with entire outer web and most of the inner web
black. Wing, 235; tail, 205; bill from nostril, 74.
Female.--Similar to the male but forehead blackish and black band on
upper throat wider. Wing, 235; tail, 210; bill from nostril, 77.
"Adult male.--Is most nearly allied to P. panini, but differs from
that species in having the belly and under tail-coverts white, the
rump and upper tail-coverts black glossed with green, like the rest
of the back, and the upper mandible only with transversely grooved
basal plates. From P. manillæ and affinis it differs (and resembles
P. panini) in having no black at the base of the tail. Length, 565;
wing, 246; tail, 203; tarsus, 43." (Grant.)
"Similar to P. manillæ, but black with bronze-green gloss instead of
brown as in P. manillæ. The whole base of the tail is light ferruginous
instead of this color being limited to a narrow bar as in P. manillæ,
and the lower mandible is plain instead of being chiseled as in
that species. The female of P. mindorensis has the feathers of the
head white as in the male, thus differing from the other Philippines
species, in all of which the females are black-headed.
"The males and females of P. mindorensis differ chiefly in the color
of the bare skin about the eye and base of the beak, this in life
being dark blue in the female and flesh-colored in the male." (Steere.)
"Habits like those of P. manillæ. All the Philippine representatives
of this genus have the peculiar undulating flight of woodpeckers when
going for any considerable distance. P. mindorensis is exceedingly
abundant in Mindoro." (Bourns and Worcester MS.)