A Manual of Philippine Birds. Richard C. McGregor
and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 29.
Pa-co′-bo, Manila.
Catanduanes (Whitehead); Leyte (Everett); Lubang (McGregor); Luzon (Everett, Bourns & Worcester, McGregor); Marinduque (Steere Exp.); Mindanao (Murray, Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester); Panay (Bourns & Worcester); Samar (Steere Exp., Whitehead); Sibuyan (McGregor); Siquijor (Bourns & Worcester). Africa, Indian Peninsula, Greater Sunda Islands; Burmese provinces to China and Japan south to Malay Peninsula.
“Adult female.—Above ashy brown, strongly glossed with olive-green, freckled all over with transverse lines of dusky blackish, with here and there broader bars of greenish black; some of the scapular feathers edged with bright ocherous forming a streak down each side of the back; long inner coverts pure white, forming another streak, generally concealed by the scapulars; wing-coverts distinctly glossed with olive-green and finely barred with dusky; alula, primary-coverts, and quills pearly gray, freckled with irregular wavy lines of black, and ocellated ovate spots of rich ocherous on outer web, and with bars of the same color on inner web; all the quills marked with black at base of outer web, more distinctly seen in the primaries than the secondaries; lower back, rump, upper tail-coverts, and tail pearly gray, with black cross-lines, rump with a few white spots, upper tail-coverts spotted with rich ocherous, tail-feathers barred with ocherous; crown dusky, slightly glossed with olive-green, a band of ocherous down the center, bordered on each side by a shade of black; round eye a cincture of isabelline whitish, reaching to a point above ear-coverts, and surrounded by a blackish shade above and below, more broadly in front; lores, sides of face, and throat, deep chestnut, extending backwards round hind neck; across fore neck a broad collar of greenish black; remainder of under surface white, extending upwards on either side of the black præ-pectoral band; on each side of upper part of breast a black patch with a slight greenish gloss, succeeded by some brown feathers waved with dusky lines; axillars and under wing-coverts white, outer ones ashy, freckled with dusky cross-lines and small spots of white or buff. ‘Bill greenish, yellowish fleshy at the tip of both mandibles; feet pale green; iris dark brown.’ (Butler.) Length, 229; culmen, 47; wing, 140; tail, 42; tarsus, 43.
“Adult male.—Different from the female and rather smaller. Easily distinguished from the female by the absence of chestnut on the throat and neck, and by the different color of the wing-coverts. The latter, instead of being olive-green barred with blackish cross-lines, are bronzy olive, with numerous bar-like spots of yellow-ocher, these spots having a black line above and below; the inner secondaries similarly colored and marked. Although there is a line of sandy buff on each side of the back, there are apparently no white parapteral plumes. Instead of the chestnut on the throat, the latter is white with dusky spots on the upper part, the lower throat light brown, mottled with dusky bars and whitish margins to the feathers, the lower border of this dusky patch edged with a band of black. ‘Bill purplish brown; feet dull slaty blue; iris dark brown.’ (S. Stafford Allen.) Length, 229; culmen, 49; wing, 127; tail, 41; tarsus, 43.
“Young male.—Resembles the old male almost exactly, but has the throat entirely white, the lower throat and fore neck washed with brown, with some dusky streaks; these streaks on the full-grown male are sometimes black, but the feathers of the back and scapulars have spots or margins of white.
“Young female.—Is at first like the young male and has the same yellow-spotted wing-coverts; the hind neck is gray, vermiculated with dusky like the male, and the markings on the throat are similar to those of the latter sex. When the chestnut color is first assumed, it is of a dull tint, and is obscured by dusky margins to the feathers; the chin is white, and the throat and fore neck uniform brown, with which the chestnut feathers are often mingled.” (Sharpe.)
“Fairly abundant about the rice-fields. Easy to bring down on account of its comparatively slow and heavy flight. Resident in the Philippines. We obtained its nest and eggs in Siquijor.” (Bourns and Worcester MS.)
Subfamily PHALAROPODINÆ.
Small sandpipers with the toes lobed, and posterior side of tarsus serrated.
Genus LOBIPES Cuvier, 1817.13
Bill slender, nearly cylindrical, not widened toward tip; nostrils separated from loral feathers by a space equal to much less than the depth of upper mandible at base.
125. LOBIPES LOBATUS (Linnæus).
NORTHERN PHALAROPE.
Tringa lobata Linnæus, Syst. Nat. ed. 10 (1758); ed. 12 (1766), 1, 149.
Phalaropus lobatus Ridgway, Man. North Am. Bds. (1887), 144.
Phalaropus hyperboreus Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1896), 24, 698; Hand-List (1899), 1, 167; Oates, Cat. Birds’ Eggs (1902), 2, 70.
Basilan Straits (Mearns). Arctic regions; in winter to southern oceans.
“Adult female in summer.—Above dark plumbeous, the back striped with ochraceous or buff; wings dusky, the greater coverts broadly tipped with white; lower parts white; chest and sides of neck rufous.
“Adult male in summer.—Similar to the female, but colors duller, the rufous almost confined to sides of neck, and less distinct, the chest chiefly mixed with white and grayish.
“Winter plumage.—Forehead, superciliary stripe, sides of head and neck, with lower parts generally, pure white; top of head grayish, the feathers with dusky shaft-streaks and whitish borders; a blackish spot in front of eye, and side of head, from beneath eye, across ear-coverts mixed dusky and grayish white; upper parts chiefly grayish; sides of chest washed or clouded with grayish.
“Young.—Top of head dusky, with or without streaks; back and scapulars blackish, distinctly bordered with buff or ochraceous; middle wing-coverts bordered with buff or whitish; forehead, supra-auricular stripe, lores, and lower parts white, the chest and sides of breast sometimes suffused with dull brownish; ear-coverts dusky.
“Downy young.—Above bright tawny, the rump with three parallel stripes of black, inclosing two of paler fulvous than the ground-color; a triangular patch of brown on crown, bounded irregularly with blackish; a black line over ears; throat and rest of head pale tawny; rest of lower parts white, becoming grayish posteriorly.
“Length, 178 to 203; wing, 102 to 113; culmen, 20 to 23; tarsus, 19 to 20; middle toe, 16 to 19.” (Ridgway.)
Suborder PARRÆ.
Family PARRIDÆ.
In general aspect and habits like the rails but distinguishable at once by the enormously lengthened toes and claws; claw of hind toe exceeding the very long toe.
Genera.
a1. No frontal shield nor lappet; primaries attenuated at their tips; center tail-feathers not elongated. Hydralector (p. 150)
a2. With a leaf-like frontal lappet; primaries not produced; center tail-feathers greatly elongated. Hydrophasianus (p. 151)
Genus HYDROPHASIANUS Wagler, 1832.
End of first primary produced as a filamentous appendage about 30 mm. in length; second and third also produced but the slender tip often broken; tip of fourth primary less slender; a sharp horny spur at bend of wing.
126. HYDROPHASIANUS CHIRURGUS (Scopoli).
PHEASANT-TAILED JACANA.