Hyloterpe homeyeri Blasius, Jour. für Orn. (1890), 143; Sharpe,
Hand-List (1903), 4, 313; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List
(1906), 93.
Bongao (Everett); Sibutu (Everett); Sulu (Platen, Bourns &
Worcester); Tawi Tawi (Bourns & Worcester).
Adult.--Upper parts, including margins of wing-feathers and rectrices,
reddish brown (walnut-brown of Ridgway); head slightly darker; sides of
neck like the back; auriculars vinaceous-cinnamon; under parts white;
chin, throat, and fore breast streaked with cinnamon; sides of breast
and flanks cinnamon; crissum washed with pale canary-yellow. A male
from Tawi Tawi measures: Wing, 84; tail, 66; culmen from base, 18;
bill from nostril, 11; tarsus, 20. A female, wing, 74; tail, 62;
culmen from base, 17; bill from nostril, 10; tarsus, 20.
"Common in Tawi Tawi, less so in Sulu. A deep woods bird; tame and
easily shot. Feeds on insects, and usually keeps some distance above
the ground. Six males average: Length, 157; wing, 81; tail, 64;
culmen, 17.8; tarsus, 19.5; middle toe with claw, 18. Four females,
length, 150; wing, 77; tail, 63; culmen, 17.8; tarsus, 19; middle toe
with claw, 17.8. Iris dark brown; legs, feet, and nails light brown;
bill black. Breeding in Tawi Tawi in the month of September." (Bourns
and Worcester MS.)
Family PARIDÆ.
Bill conoidal and stout, shorter than head; no notch in cutting edge,
and tip not hooked; nostrils slightly oval, hidden by the antrorse
frontal plumes; rictal bristles short and inconspicuous; wing flat
and somewhat pointed; first primary less than one-half of second,
the latter less than the third; fourth and fifth longest; third and
sixth about equal in length; rectrices broad with nearly square tips;
tail much shorter than wing; tarsus stout, less than twice the bill
from nostril, distinctly scutellate in front; basal joints of anterior
toes more or less united.
Genera.
a1. Breast and abdomen yellow; rectrices tipped with white or with
pale yellow. ... Pardaliparus (p. 604)
a2. Breast and abdomen black, or dull brown, nearly uniform in
color with the back; rectrices without white or light-colored
tips. ... Penthornis (p. 608)
Genus PARDALIPARUS Selys-Longchamps, 1884.
Chin, throat, and much or all of the head black; breast and abdomen
yellow; rectrices and many of the wing-feathers with wide tips of
white or of pale yellow.
Species.
a1. A broad yellow band from below eye across auriculars to side of
neck, separating the black of chin and throat from the black of head.
b1. Larger; bill longer; spots on wing-coverts larger and more
nearly white.
c1. Bill much smaller; spot on hind neck and stripe on side of
head and neck bright canary-yellow.
d1. Back and scapulars more olive-green. ... elegans (p. 605)
d2. Back and scapulars white. ... albescens (p. 606)
c2. Bill much larger; spot on neck and stripe on side of head
and neck very pale yellow. ... edithæ (p. 606)
b2. Smaller; bill shorter; spots on wing-coverts smaller and washed
with yellow. ... mindanensis (p. 607)
a2. No yellow band on side of head and neck, which are entirely
black. ... amabilis (p. 607)