IRENA. 499 



gray ; above blue, washed with green, shafts black. A male from Palawan 

 measures: Wing, 89; tail, 72; eulmen from base, 21; bill from nostril, 

 14.5; tarsus, 15. 



Female. — Scarcely differs in color from the male, but the moustachial 

 streak dark purplish blue. A female measures: Wing, 82; tail, 65; 

 eulmen from base, 22; tarsus, 17. 



"Common in Palawan and in the Calamianes, but difficult to see on 

 account of its color. Found in the forests, second growth, and man- 

 grove swamps. Seven males average : Length, 189 ; wing, 90 ; tail, 67 ; 

 tarsus, 18; middle toe with claw, 17; eulmen, 23. Four females, length, 

 182; wing, 83; tail, 63; eulmen, 23; tarsus, 19; middle toe with claw, 18. 

 Iris brown ; legs and feet slate-gray ; bill black.'' (Bourns and Wor- 

 cester M8.) 



470. CHLOROPSIS FLAVIPENNIS { Tweeddale ) . 



YELLOW-aUILLED LEAFBIRD. 



Phyllornis flavipennis Tweeddale, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1877), 761; pi. 77, fig. 1. 

 Chloropsis flavipennis Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1881), 6, 34; Hand- 

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



Cebu {Everett, Bourns & ^Vorcester, McGregor) ; Mindanao (Platen, Celestino) . 



Male and female. — Nearly the entire plumage leaf- or grass-green, 

 much darker above than below; lores, ring about eye, ear-coverts, and 

 chin washed with light yellow; outer webs of some primaries and inner 

 webs of all the remiges and rectrices, edged with chamois-yellow; lower 

 thighs chamois-yellow ; shafts of flight-feathers black. Three males from 

 Cebu measure: Wing, 91 to 96; tail, 74 to 76; bill from nostril, 16 to 17. 

 Three females, wing, 89 to 91 ; tail, 72 to 76 ; bill from nostril, 15 to 16. 



This species, which is very distinct from C. palawanensis, is rare in 

 the only islands where it has been found. 



"Pound only in the forest and breeding in June. Nine males average : 

 Length, 200; wing, 92; tail, 75; eulmen, 25; tarsus, 18; middle toe with 

 claw, 20. Four females, length, 183; wing, 86; tail, 70; eulmen, 24; 

 tarsus, 17; middle toe with claw, 20. L'is dark brown to black; upper 

 mandible almost black, lower drab." (Bourns and Worcester MS.) 



Genus lEENA Horsfield, 1821. 



Nuchal hairs well developed, their exposed portions equal to about two- 

 thirds the length of bill from nostril; nostrils hidden by short close-set 

 feathers; a notch near the tip of each mandible; primaries longer than 

 secondaries by much more than tarsus ; tarsus less than bill from nostril ; 

 tail slightly rounded. Colors blue and black. In the thin and tender 

 skin and hidden nostrils this genus shows some affinity to the Cam- 

 pophagidce; the well-developed nuchal liairs and ?li(i't tarsus indicate a 

 close relationship to the bulbuls. 



