Penelopides affinis Tweeddale, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (1877),
(4), 20, 534; Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1892), 17, 375;
Sharpe, Hand-List (1900), 2, 65; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List
(1906), 56.
Dinagat (Everett); Mindanao (Everett, Koch & Schadenberg, Steere
Exp., Goodfellow, Clemens, Celestino).
"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 black, glossed with dark green; breast, belly,
thighs, and under tail-coverts white, tinged with buff; tail white
(stained rufous), with a wide terminal black band and some black
at the base of the feathers, sometimes a band nearly as wide as at
the extremity. 'Naked skin round eye and on chin and throat white;
iris crimson; feet greenish lead; nails grayish black; basal half
of bill and casque dark brown, rest of bill pale brown; base of the
lower mandible with three or four obliquely transverse yellow ridges
separated by dark brown grooves.' (Everett.) Length, 500; wing, 236;
tail, 195; tarsus, 41.
"Young male (with undeveloped casque) differs from the adult in having
the upper tail-coverts chestnut and the black band across the end of
the tail suffused with rufous.
"Adult female.--Head, neck, and under parts dull black; back,
rump, upper tail-coverts, and wings black, glossed with dark
green; tail resembles that of the male. 'Naked skin round eye and
on chin and throat dark blue: iris crimson, feet dark greenish
leaden.' (Everett.) Bill and casque brown, base of lower mandible
with indistinct obliquely transverse grooves. Length, 500; wing, 218;
tail, 175; tarsus, 41.
"Young female (with undeveloped casque) differs from the adult in
having chestnut upper tail-coverts and the black band across the end
of the tail suffused with rufous." (Grant.)