474 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 



437. CRYPTOLOPHA OLIVACEA (Moseley). 



OLIVACEOUS FLYCATCHEK 'WARBLER. 



Airornis olivacea Moseley, Ibis (1891), 47, pi. 2, fig. 2; Sharpe, Hand-List 

 (1001). 3, 276; McGregor and Worcester', Hand-List (1U06), 76.* 

 Vryptolopha olivacea Grant, Ibis (1896), 543; Whitehead, Ibis (1899). 

 110. 

 Boliol (McGregor); Leyte (Whitehead); Luzon (Whitehead); Mindanao 

 (Bourns c£ Worcester, Celestino) ; Negi'os (Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, 

 Whitehead) ; Samar (Steere Exp., Whitehead) ^, Sulu (Bourns <t- Worcester) ; 

 Tawi Tawi (Bourns & Worcester). 



Adult, male and female. — Entire upper parts olive-green ; top of head 

 and neck streaked with ashy gi'ay; lores dusky, surmounted by a line 

 of light greenish yellow; eyelids bright yellow; postoeular band dusky, 

 sui-mounted by a narrow whitish line; cheeks and ear-coverts yellowish 

 green, streaked with pale yellow; under parts whitish, streaked with 

 pale yellow; flanks washed with light olive-green; feathers of thighs 

 dusky, tipped with light yellow ; under tail-coverts uniform light yellow ; 

 wing-feathers brown, edged with olive-gi'een ; edge of wing and axillars 

 clear light yellow ; rectrices olive-green, the inner webs of two outermost 

 pairs edged with light yellow. A male from Bohol measures: Length. 

 ] 27 ; wing, 60 ; tail, 53 ; culmen from base, 13 ; bill from nostril, 8 ; 

 tarsus, 18. A female from Mindanao, wing, 52; tail, 42; culmen from 

 base, 13 ; bill from nostril, 8 ; tarsus, 18. 



"Young hirds have the crown olive-gi'een like the rest of the upper 

 parts, the chin and throat pale yellow, and the outer webs of the outer 

 primaries olive-gi-een like the rest of the quills." {Grant.) 



"Not uncommon; met with by us in several islands in company with 

 flocks of Phylloscopu.?. Seven males from various localities average: 

 Length, 121; wing, 59; tail, 49; culmen, 15; tarsus, 18; middle toe 

 with claw, 15. Two females, length, 114; wing, 52; tail, 44; culmen, 

 15; tarsus, 17; middle toe with claw, 14. Iris dark brown to black; 

 legs, feet, and nails light brown ; upper mandible dark brown to black ; 

 lower mandible yellow." {Bourns and Worcester MS.) 



438. CRYPTOLOPHA CEBUENSIS Dubois. 

 CEBU FLYCATCHER WARBLER. 



Cryptolopha fiavigularis (not of Austen), Bourns and Worcester, Minne- 

 sota Acad. Nat. Sci. Occ. Papers (1894), 1, 23. 

 Cryptolopha cebuensis Dubois, Syn. Av. (1900), 286; Sharpe, Hand-List 

 (1901), 3, 274; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 75. 

 Cebu (Bourns d Worcester, McGregor) . 



* Sharpe, Hand-List (1901), 3, 276, asigns the species C nigrorum and C. 

 olivacea to Abrornis. Gates says: "Abrornis resembles Cryptolopha in everything 

 except the tail, which has ten feathers instead of twelve." As the species men- 

 tioned above have twelve rectrices I have put them in Cryptolopha. 



