498 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 



first primary, broadly edged with white; secondaries edged with white 

 on both webs; lesser wing-co-verts black; median coverts with wide white 

 tips forming a bar; greater coverts edged with white near their tips 

 forming a second bar. A male from Palawan measures : Wing, 66 ; tail, 

 51; culmen from base, 18; bill from nostril, 12; tarsus, 20. 



Female. — Above similar to the male, but forehead more greenish, and 

 tail and coverts green like the back; under parts lighter yellow than 

 in the male; wings blackish and the tail-markings more or less washed 

 with yellowish green. A female measures: Wing, 62; tail, 51; culmen 

 from base, 17.5; tarsus, 18. 



"Very common in Palawan but not found by us in the Calamianes. 

 Five males average : Length, 146 ; wing, 63 ; tail, 50 ; culmen, 19 ; tarsus, 

 18; middle toe with claw, 16. Four females, length, 138; wing, 60; 

 tail, 52; culmen, 18; tarsus, 18; middle toe with claw, 16. Iris light 

 yellow to grayish white; legs and feet slate-blue; nails darker than feet; 

 upper mandible black, gray along gape; lower mandible grayish white." 

 {Bourns and Worcestei- MS.) 



Genus CHLOEOPSIS Jardine and Selby, 1826. 



A distinct notch near the tip of each mandible; tarsus slightly less 

 than culmen from base; difference between the lengtli of primaries and 

 of secondaries equal to about two-thirds of tarsus. Plumage nearly all 

 bright grass-green, the difference between the sexes vei'v slight. 



Species. 



a*. Chin and throat bright yellow ^ palawanensis (p. 498) 



a'. Chin and throat liglit green, the chin slightly washed with yellow. 



flavipennis (p. 499) 



469. CHLOROPSIS PALAWANENSIS (Sharpe). 

 PALAWAN LEAFBIRD. 



Phyllornis palaivanensis Sharpe, Trans. Linn. Soc. 2d. ser. Zool. (1877), 1, 

 333, figs. 1 and 2. 



Chloropsis palawanensis Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1881), 6, 33; Hand- 

 List (1901), 3, 308; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 78. 



Balabac {Everett) ; Calamianes {Bourns d Worcester) ; Palawan {Steere, 

 Whitehead, Platen, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, Celestino, White). 



Male. — Grass-green, much darker above than below; lores and a small 

 patch at base of lower mandible light blue, behind the latter a moustachial 

 line of lilac, above this and below eye a band of golden yellow; eye 

 surrounded by a circle of purple feathers; chin and throat golden yellow; 

 lesser wing-coverts on bend of wing bluish purple; remainder of second- 

 ary-coverts and secondaries edged with green; alula and primary-coverts 

 blue, slightly washed with purple; primaries black, edged with light 

 blue on outer webs and with white on inner webs; rectrices, ))elow dark 



