Phoenicophaus superciliosus Cuvier, Dict. Hist. Nat. (1826),
10, 55.
Dasylophus superciliosus Shelley, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1891),
19, 403; Sharpe, Hand-List (1900), 2, 172; McGregor and Worcester,
Hand-List (1906), 64.
Bá-sac ba-yú-cu, Manila.
Catanduanes (Whitehead); Luzon (Cuming, Meyer, Möllendorff,
Steere, Steere Exp., Whitehead, McGregor, Celestino); Marinduque
(Steere Exp.).
"Adult male.--General plumage above glossy blackish green, with
a partial blue shade; a very distinct eyebrow of bright crimson
elongated tufts of hair-like feathers extending from the nostrils to
behind the bare orbital patch, which latter is bright orange; the base
of many of the red tufts white and forming a narrow partial eyebrow
next to the bare skin; tail with broad white ends to the feathers;
under parts dusky olive, inclining to black toward the chin, thighs,
and under tail-coverts, the latter partially glossed with green. 'Iris
pure chrome-yellow; orbital skin and base of bill fiery orange; bill
pale green; legs greenish chrome; claws dark gray.' (Everett.) Length,
394; culmen, 38; wing, 157; tail, 241; tarsus, 38.
"Adult female.--Similar in plumage to the male. Length, 389; culmen,
38; wing, 155; tail, 231; tarsus, 37." (Shelley.)
A male from Bataan Province, Luzon, measures: Wing, 160; tail, 240;
culmen from base, 36; bill from nostril, 27; tarsus, 35; middle toe
with claw, 33.
Genus LEPIDOGRAMMUS Reichenbach, 1849.
Nostrils partly hidden; a large, oblong, bare space surrounding the
eye; feathers of entire top of head and of chin and throat with
hard, glossy scale-like tips; wings short and rounded; tail long
and graduated.