470 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 



432. RHINOMYIAS RUFICAUDA (Sharpe). 



RUFOUS-TAILED RHINOMYIAS. 



Setaria ruficauda Siiarpe, Trans. Linn. Soc. 2d. ser. Zool. (1877), 1, 327. 

 Rhinomyias ruficauda Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1879), 4, 368; 

 Hand-List (1901), 3, 267; Whitehead, Ibis (1899), 109; McGregor 

 and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 75. 

 Setaria samarensis Steere, List Birds & Mams. Steere Exped. (1890), 16. 

 Basilan [titeere, Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester) ; Bohol (Mc- 

 Gregor) ; Leyte (Whitehead); Mindanao (Steere Exp., Goodfellow, Celestino) ; 

 Samar (Steere Exp., Whitehead). 



Adult male. — Above rich olive-bro\Yn, darkest on the head; wing- 

 feathers blackish, edged with olive-brown; tail-coverts and rectrices fer- 

 ruginous; lores and ear-coverts pale gray, the latter washed with olive; 

 under parts white, washed on sides of throat and of body with pale gray ; 

 thighs brown. Bill black ; iris brown ; legs light blue. Length of a male 

 from Basilan, 152 ; wing, 74 ; tail, 57 ; culmen from base, 17 ; bill from 

 nostril, 11; tarsus, 18. 



Adult female. — Similar to the male but lores obscured with brown and 

 ear-coverts olive-brown. A female from Mindanao measures: Length, 

 152; wing, 71; tail, 54; culmen from base, 15; bill from nostril, 10; 

 tarsus, 16. 



Immature. — Sides and flanks washed with brown and feathers of breast 

 edged more or less with brown; greater and median wing-coverts tipped 

 with spots of light ocherous brown. 



See notes on this species under Rhinomyias albigularis. 



"Not rare in deep forest on Basilan. An immature bird has feathers 

 of head with rufous shaft-markings; feathers of back, and upper wing- 

 coverts with large spots of same color edged with black; breast similarly 

 but more faintly spotted. 



"Five males from Basilan average : Length, 143 ; wing, 74 ; tail, 60 ; 

 culmen, 17 ; tarsus, 16 ; middle toe with claw, 21. Four females, length, 

 129; wing, G9 ; tail, 50; culmen, 16; tarsus, 15; middle toe with claw, 

 16. Iris dark brown; legs and feet light slate; nails same; bill black." 

 (Bourns and Worcester MS.) 



433. RHINOMYIAS OCULARIS Bourns and Worcester. 



CHESTNUT-EYED RHINOMYIAS. 



Rhinomyias occularis Bourns and Worcester, ]\Iinnesota Acad. Nat. Sci. 



Occ. Papers (1894), 1, 27 (error). 

 Rhinomyias ocularis Sharpe, Hand-List (1901), 3, 267; McGbegob and 



Worcester, Hand-List (1900), 75. 

 Sulu (Bourns d Worcester) ; Tawi Tawi (Bourns & Worcester). 



"Adult {sexes alike). — General color above uniform olive-brown, 

 slightly brighter on the rump ; tail dark chestnut, much brighter on outer 

 webs of feathers which are very dull at tips; wing-coverts like back; 

 quills brownish black washed with rusty brown, this becoming whitish on 



