Part 186

Behr-riss behr-riss, Bagobo (Mount Apo).

Mindanao (Goodfellow, Mearns).

Male.--Above rich olive-yellow; wings and tail brown, edged with olive-green; inner webs of two outermost pairs of rectrices white; no light bar on wing-coverts; lores bright greenish yellow; no dark line through eye and no light line above eye; under parts rich greenish yellow as in the female. Wing, 61; tail, 44; culmen from base, 12; bill from nostril, 7; tarsus, 20. This description is taken from a specimen in poor condition, collected on Mount Apo by Mearns. The description of the type is added.

"Female.--Upper surface olive-green; remiges blackish brown, outwardly edged with the color of the back, inwardly with yellowish white; middle rectrices dusky brown, edged with olive-green, outermost pair with the inner webs white, except a brown patch near the base; basal half of outer webs pale sulphur-yellow, distal half, except a line near the shaft, dusky brown; the next pair similar, but with little more brown near the base, and the outer web throughout with dusky patches, the third pair from outside with an irregular white stripe near the shaft on the inner web and a narrow white border; a narrow brownish buff superciliar line, not very conspicuous; under side sulphur-yellow; fore neck and breast tinged with olive-green; under wing-coverts white, yellow near the edge of the wing; under tail-coverts yellow. Wing, 59.5; tail, 45; bill, 10; tarsus, about 18; (not quite certain, because both damaged by shot)." (Hartert.)

441. CRYPTOLOPHA XANTHOPYGIA Whitehead.

PALAWAN FLYCATCHER WARBLER.

Cryptolopha xanthopygia Whitehead, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club (1893), 1, 31; Exped. Kina Balu (1893), pl. 16, fig. 2; Sharpe, Hand-List (1901), 3, 275; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 76. Cryptolopha montis Sharpe, Hand-List (1901), 3, 275 (part); McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 76.

Palawan (Whitehead).

Adult.--Top and sides of head, ear-coverts, and hind neck chestnut; a broad band of black on crown from above eye to side of neck; lores yellowish; eyelids white; cheeks bright yellow, becoming rufous posteriorly; rest of upper parts dull olive-green; rump yellow; wings and tail brown, edged with olive-green; median and greater wing-coverts tipped with yellow, forming a double wing-bar; under parts, including under wing-coverts and axillars, bright yellow with a wash of rufous on sides of upper breast.

I have not seen a specimen of this flycatcher and no good description of it is available. The above description is compiled from that of C. montis. By an oversight C. montis has been credited to Palawan by Sharpe and by McGregor and Worcester; as the only specimen of flycatcher warbler from Palawan is the type of C. xanthopygia, the former species must be stricken from the list of Philippine birds.

Genus EUMYIAS Cabanis, 1850.

Bill broad and depressed; width at nostril nearly twice the depth; rictal bristles moderate; the wing exceeds the tail by less than length of tarsus; first primary more than one-half of second and less than one-half of third; fourth and fifth nearly equal and longest; tarsus twice the bill from nostril. This genus is similar to Cyornis, but in Eumyias the sexes are alike in colors and nearly the entire plumage is verditer-blue.

Species.

a1. Forehead and chin verditer-blue to base of bill.

b1. Feathers of lores with black bases, the tips blue; wing longer. ... panayensis (p. 477) b2. Feathers of lores entirely black; wing shorter ... nigriloris (p. 478)

a2. Forehead and chin black ... nigrimentalis (p. 478)

442. EUMYIAS PANAYENSIS Sharpe.

PANAY VERDITER FLYCATCHER.

Eumyias panayensis Sharpe, Trans. Linn. Soc. 2d. ser. Zool. (1877), 1, 326; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 76. Stoparola panayensis Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1879), 4, 440; Hand-List (1901), 3, 286; Whitehead, Ibis (1899), 110 (habits).

Negros (Steere Exp., Whitehead); Panay (Steere).

"Adult (type of species).--General color above dull verditer-blue, rather brighter on the forehead and over the eye, forming an indistinct eyebrow; least wing-coverts resembling the back, the greater series and the quills blackish brown, externally edged with dull verditer-blue; tail feathers blackish, also edged with verditer on the outer web; sides of face dull verditer, as also the whole of the throat and breast, shading off into white on the abdomen and flanks, the latter washed with blue; fore part of cheeks and throat slightly varied with silvery tips to the feathers; thighs and under wing- and tail-coverts buffy white. Bill black; feet dark brown. Length, 152; culmen, 14; wing, 75; tail, 62; tarsus, 18." (Sharpe.)

"The Panay verditer flycatcher seems to be a mountain form. A single specimen was collected by the Steere Expedition on an expedition into the mountains back of Sibulan, Negros." (Bourns and Worcester MS.)

443. EUMYIAS NIGRIMENTALIS (Grant).

BLACK-MASKED VERDITER FLYCATCHER.

Stoparola nigrimentalis Grant, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club (1894), 3, 50; Ibis (1894), 507, pl. 14, fig. 2; Whitehead, Ibis (1899), 110; Sharpe, Hand-List (1901), 3, 286. Eumyias nigrimentalis McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 76.

Luzon (Whitehead, Worcester, McGregor); Mindoro (Whitehead).

Adult (sexes alike).--General color verditer-blue, darker above; silvery on forehead, over eyes, and on under parts; forehead, lores, jaw, chin, and line around eye black, forming a mask; abdomen and crissum white, the latter washed with pale ocherous; thighs black, the feathers tipped with white; wings and tail brownish black, the outer webs of the feathers verditer-blue. Iris dark brown; bill, legs, and nails black. Length, 145 to 150. A male measures: Wing, 73; tail, 62; culmen from base, 12; bill from nostril, 8.5; tarsus, 18. A female, wing, 71; tail, 60; culmen from base, 12; bill from nostril, 8.

Nestling.--Above blackish, each feather tipped with rusty yellowish brown; below ocherous or dark buff, the feathers edged with black; middle of abdomen white; the slightly developed primaries, secondaries, and rectrices brownish black edged with blue, as in the adult; wing-coverts like the back.