Phoenicophaus cumingi Fraser, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1839), 112.
Lepidogrammus cumingi Shelley, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1891), 19,
404; Sharpe, Hand-List (1900), 2, 172; McGregor and Worcester,
Hand-List (1906), 64.
Al-bi-ló-ri-o, Manila.
Luzon (Cuming, Meyer, Everett, Möllendorff, Steere Exp., Whitehead,
McGregor, Celestino); Marinduque (Steere Exp.).
"Adult (type of species).--Upper half and sides of the head gray,
passing into white on the sides of the forehead and throat; all
feathers of the forehead and a broad central band through the crown
to the nape, ornamented with glossy, black, horny appendages, and
having the subterminal portion of each feather white; a broad band
of similarly horn-tipped feathers extending down the center of the
throat; back of the neck deep chestnut; remainder of the upper parts
deep glossy green, inclining to purplish blue on the quills and tail;
the feathers of the latter with white ends; at the base of the neck a
broad golden rufous semicircle bordering the white throat and blending
into the deep chestnut of the sides of the neck and chest; abdomen,
thighs, and under tail-coverts brownish black, washed with a dark
green gloss on the outside of the thigh-coverts; under wing-coverts
deep chestnut like the breast; quills uniform glossy black; eyelashes
strong and black. 'Orbital patch and iris red; bill horn-yellow;
legs gray.' (Everett.) Length, 432; culmen, 38; wing, 155; tail, 229;
tarsus, 41.
"Nestling.--Upper half and sides of the head, wings, and body, both
above and below, dark reddish brown; the quills and base of the tail
glossy greenish black, with which color other portions of the wings
are mottled; a broad white end to the tail; neck all round rufous,
passing into rufous-gray on the chin." (Shelley.)
A male from Bataan Province, Luzon, measures: Wing, 158; tail, 230;
culmen from base, 37; bill from nostril, 27; tarsus, 41; middle toe
with claw, 39.
Order SCANSORES.