HYPSIPETES. 503 



475. HYPSIPETES FUGENSIS Grant. 



FUGA RED-EARED BULBTJL. 



Hypsipetes fugensis Grant, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club (1895), 5, 2; Ibis (1896), 

 113; Whitehead, Ibis (1899), 214; Sharpe, Hand-List (1901), 3, 

 310; McGregor, Bull. Philippine Mus. (1904), 4, 31; McGregor and 

 Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 79. 



Sa-mot', Calayan. 



Calayan (AlcCrregor) ; Fuga (Whitehead, McGregor, Mearns) . 



Male and female. — Top of head and crest dark brown, the feathers 

 edged with slate-gray; back, rump, and tail-coverts warm brown or light 

 seal-brown, the feathers edged with olive-gray; wings and tail dark 

 brown; rectrices edged with olive-gray; chin, fore part of throat, and 

 cheeks hoary gray; a band of dark reddish brown across ear-coverts and 

 lower throat, many of the feathers of throat with white spots on the 

 tips of the shafts; rest of imder parts ashy brown, becoming fulvous 

 on flanks and thighs; feathers on median part of breast tipped with 

 white; middle of abdomen white. Iris reddish brown; bill, legs, and 

 nails dark brown. Five males from Fuga measure: Wing, 123 to 126; 

 tail, 119 to 124; culmen from base, 27 to 29; bill from nostril, 16.5 to 

 18; tarsus, 19 to 23. 



"Adult male and female. — Most nearly allied to H. squamiceps and 

 H. pryeri, having the chestnut ear-coverts united by a band of the same 

 color extending across the throat, but the top of the head, which is almost 

 devoid of a crest, and the neck are brown, like the back, instead of dark 

 slate-gray; and the white tips to the feathers of the breast and belly are 

 almost entirely absent, or only faintly indicated along the middle line 

 of the under parts. Length, 267; culmen, 29; wing, 123; tail, 117: 

 tarsus, 21.5." (Grant.) 



476. HYPSIPETES BATANENSIS Mearns. 



BATAN RED-EARED BULBUL. 



Hypsipetes batanensis Mearxs, Phil. Jour. Sci. (1907), 2, sec. A, 357; 

 McGregor, Ibid, 342. 



Pi-uc', Batan. 



Babuyan Claro (McGregor) ; Batan (Mearns, McGregor) . 



Diagnosis. — "Exactly like topotypes of Hypsipetes fugensis Grant, but 

 larger, and with the forehead rufescent instead of cinereous. Measure- 

 ments. — Type (skin of adult male) — Length, 262; wing, 130; tail, 127; 

 culmen (chord), 28; bill from anterior margin of nostril, 20; tarsus, 26; 

 middle toe with claw, about 27. Average of three adult males including 

 the type: Length, 264; wing, 128; tail, 127; culmen (chord), 28; bill 

 from anterior margin of nostril, 26; middle toe witli claw, about 27. 

 Adult female: Length, 245; wing, 116; tail, 112; culmen (chord), 25; 



