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 Colymbus philippensis Bonnaterre, Tabl. Encycl. Meth. (1790), 1, 58, pl. 46, fig. 3.

 Podicipes philippensis Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1898), 26, 511.

 Podicipes philippinensis Sharpe, Hand-List (1899), 1, 113; Oates, Cat. Birds’ Eggs (1901), 1, 133; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 19.

Su-li-a′-sit, Manila; ga-mao′, Bohol.

Bohol (McGregor); Calayan (McGregor); Guimaras (Steere Exp.); Luzon (Jagor, Heriot, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, Whitehead, McGregor, Stafford); Mindanao (Mearns); Panay (Clarke).7 Borneo, southern China, Burmese provinces, Formosa, Hainan.

Adult in breeding plumage.—Above dark, glossy seal-brown; chin, fore throat, and cheeks blackish; throat, sides of neck, and ear-coverts chestnut; breast and abdomen silvery white, mixed with a little blackish brown and gradually shading into blackish brown on fore breast, sides, flanks, and lower belly; thighs blackish mixed with a little light chestnut; wings black; under wing-coverts, axillars, and tips of short secondaries white. “Iris straw-yellow; bill black, whitish at the tip; naked skin at base of bill and between rami of the mandible pale greenish yellow; legs blackish gray, with a slight tinge of green.” (Swinhoe.) A male from Calayan, November 15, 1903, measures: Length, 280; wing, 107; culmen broken; tarsus, 33; middle toe with claw, 48.

The following data are from a female taken at Jala Jala, Laguna de Bay, Luzon, January 5, 1902. Feet bluish black; angle of mouth and base of lower mandible clear, pale pea-green; bill black with a light spot at tip. Wing, 100; exposed culmen, 23; tarsus, 33; middle toe with claw, 49. A female from Sevilla, Bohol, March 24, 1906, measures: Length, 254; wing, 102; exposed culmen, 23; tarsus, 33; middle toe with claw, 49.

The non-breeding bird has the chin and throat white and the chestnut reduced in extent and lighter in shade.

Young.—A half-grown downy young was obtained at Laguna de Bay, August 24, 1904. Above seal-brown with white tips to much of the down; middle of crown mottled with chestnut; a white line over eye; two diagonal white lines on each side of occiput, the anterior line continued along side of neck; chin, throat, and face mottled with white, black, and dark gray; fore breast, sides, and lower belly gray; middle of breast and belly white. Bill pale yellow mottled with blackish brown, tip gray; legs black. Length, 203.

A full-grown young bird has upper parts light brown; sides of head and neck buffy brown, mottled and streaked with white; chin and upper throat white; a wide dull buffy brown band around neck; breast and abdomen pure white; thighs buff-brown.

“Comparatively rare. Several specimens were secured by the Steere Expedition in a little pond in Guimaras. Fairly common in the Laguna de Bay, Luzon, but we failed entirely to find it in the Laguna de Naujan, Mindoro.” (Bourns and Worcester MS.)