A Manual of Philippine BirdsMcGregor, Richard C. (Richard Crittenden)
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A Manual of Philippine Birds
McGregor, Richard C. (Richard Crittenden)
Birds -- Philippines
a1. Cheeks blue.
b1. Cheeks and collar pale blue. ... lunulatus, [male] (p. 285)
b2. Cheeks and collar bright blue. ... intermedius, [male] (p. 285)
a2. Cheeks green.
b1. Collar deep blue. ... mindanensis, [male] (p. 286)
b2. Collar yellow, with crescent-like black bands. ... lunulatus,
[female] (p. 285); mindanensis, [female] (p. 286)
b3. Collar faint orange-yellow. ... intermedius, [female] (p. 285)
246. BOLBOPSITTACUS LUNULATUS (Scopoli).
LUZON GUAIABERO.
Psittacus lunulatus Scopoli, Del. Flor. et Faun. Insubr. (1786),
86.
Bolbopsittacus lunulatus Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1891),
20, 504; Sharpe, Hand-List (1900), 2, 34; McGregor and Worcester,
Hand-List (1906), 49.
Bo-bó-toc, gua-ya-bé-ro, Luzon.
Luzon (Cuming, Möllendorff, Steere, Meyer, Everett, Steere Exp.,
Whitehead, McGregor).
Male.--General color green, lighter below; lores, orbit, cheeks, a
narrow line on forehead, and a narrow collar on hind neck pale blue;
lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts light greenish yellow;
the longest coverts clear green; primaries, primary-coverts, and
alula blue on outer webs, inner webs black; ends of primaries more or
less green; on under side of wing a pale yellowish band across inner
webs of secondaries and shorter primaries; rectrices green above,
blue below. Iris brown, cere black; bill black, with base white;
legs dull green; nails horn-brown. In the female all of the lower
mandible is dirty white. Three males and three females from Bataan
Province average, wing, 98; tail, 36; culmen from cere, 18; tarsus, 13.
Female.--Differs from the male in having the lower parts lighter green;
blue of head confined to feathers of lower cheeks overhanging chin
on each side; a narrow ring of light green around eye; collar on
hind neck yellow, each feather with two narrow crescentic lines of
blackish green; lower back and rump green, with blackish crescentic
marks. Same size as the male.
Young.--"Young male resembles the female." (Salvadori.)
247. BOLBOPSITTACUS INTERMEDIUS Salvadori.
INTERMEDIATE GUAIABERO.
Bolbopsittacus intermedius Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1891),
20, 505; Sharpe, Hand-List (1900), 2, 34; McGregor and Worcester,
Hand-List (1906), 49.
Leyte (Whitehead); Samar (Bourns & Worcester, Whitehead).
Male.--"Similar to the male of B. lunulatus, from which it differs
in having the face of a deeper blue with a purple tinge, and a blue
collar on the lower part of the hind neck brighter and like that
of B. mindanensis; the under parts are of a deeper and brighter
green than either in B. lunulatus or in B. mindanensis; bill black;
feet greenish. Length, 147; wing, 99; tail, 33; bill, 19; tarsus,
10." (Salvadori.)
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