Pardaliparus elegans McGregor, Bull. Philippine Mus. (1904), 4,
27; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 94 (part).
Pardaliparus edithæ McGregor, Phil. Jour. Sci. (1907), 2,
sec. A, 294.
Calayan (McGregor); Camiguin N. (McGregor).
Male.--Top of head, sides of neck and mantle glossy blue-black;
an irregular white patch in center of nape; a number of large white
spots on mantle; back and rump gray, washed with olivaceous; upper
tail-coverts glossy black; chin, throat, and fore breast dead black,
forming a large triangular patch, bounded above by a broad band of
white, slightly washed with yellow, which extends under eye across
ear-coverts onto side of neck; rest of lower parts pale lemon-yellow,
washed with olivaceous on sides of neck and abdomen and on flanks;
wings glossy black; primaries narrowly edged with gray on their outer
webs and with white on the inner; greater and median coverts with white
spots at tips (much smaller than in P. elegans and not forming bands as
in that species); secondaries tipped with white; tail black with white
markings as in P. elegans, but the white tips much smaller and white
on outer webs of two outer pairs of rectrices. Bill black except basal
third which is horn-blue; legs dull blue; nails horn-brown. Length,
122; wing, 67; tail, 43; culmen from base, 12; bill from nostril,
10; tarsus, 18; middle toe with claw, 17.
Female.--Similar to the male, but somewhat duller and upper parts
more olive-green. Wing, 63; tail, 38; culmen from base, 12; bill from
nostril, 9; tarsus, 18.