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length; wing, 115; tail, 102; culmen, 31; tarsus, 23; middle toe with 

 claw, 23. Iris, legs, feet, and nails dark brown ; bill noai-ly black. Breed- 

 ing in June." {Bourns and Worcester MS.) 



Genus POLIOLOPHUS Sharpe, 1877. 



Occipital crest short and pointed ; eye surrounded by a narrow wattle ; 

 bill from base about equal to tarsus; rictal bristles long, the longest 

 much more than bill from nostril; rectrices graduated and tipped with 

 white; difference between lengths of outermost and middle tail-feathers 

 more than length of bill from nostril. 



488. POLIOLOPHUS UROSTICTUS ( Salvadori ) . 



WATTLED BULBTJL. 



Brachypus iirosticius Salvadori, Atti E. Accad. Sc. Torino (1870), 5, 509. 

 Pycnonotus ttrostictus Walden, Trans. Zool. Soc. (1875), 9, pi. 32, fig. 2. 

 Poliolophus urostictus Sharpe, Trans. Linn. Soc. 2d. ser. Zool. (1877), 1, 

 334; Cat Birds Brit. Mus. (1881), 6, 63 (text figure of head) ; Hand- 

 List (1901), 3, 315; Whitehead, Ibis (1899), 215; Gates and Reid, 

 Cat Birds' Eggs (1903), 3, 308, pi. 10, fig. 9 {egg); McGregor and 

 Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 79. 

 Poliolophus basilanicus Steere, List Birds & Mams. Steere Exped. ( 1890), 19. 

 Basilan {Steere Exp., McGregor) ; Boliol {McGregor); Catanduanes {White- 

 head); Dinagat {Everett); Leyte {Steere Exp., Whitehead); Luzon (Meyer, 

 Steere Exp., McGregor, Whitehead) ; Mindanao {Everett, Steere Exp., Ooodfellow, 

 Celestino) ; Panaon {Everett) ; Samar {Bourns & Worcester) . 



Adult. — Top of head dark brown, shaft-lines seal-brown; rest of upper 

 parts dark olive-green, the shafts of the feathers darker; feathers of 

 lower back long and thick-set, forming a bunch which covers the feathers 

 of the rump; the long feathers with dark brown subtei'minal spots and 

 some of the lateral ones tipped with white washed with pale yellow; 

 rectrices brown, each with a subterminal blackish area and a distinct 

 white tip; sides of head dark drab; chin and throat drab-gray; breast 

 ashy brown, this color, faintly washed with olivaceous, extends onto 

 sides of neck and breast and onto flanks; rest of under parts white with 

 some streaks of pale yellow on breast; axillars and wing-lining white, 

 washed with light yellow. Iris gray; eyelids lemon-yellow; bill and 

 feet black. Length, about 185. A male from Luzon measures: Wing, 

 80; tail, 75; culmen from base, 15; bill from nostril, 9; tarsus, 16. A 

 male from Bohol, wing, 78; tail, 73; culmen from base, 15; bill from 

 nostril, 9 ; tarsus, 17. • A male from Basilan, wing, 80 ; tail, 80 ; culmen 

 from base, 17; bill from nostril, 10.5 tarsus, 17. 



In specimens from Basilan the bill is slightly longer and the white 

 spots on the rectrices occupy more space than in specimens from Luzon. 



"The wattled bulbul is fairly common about fruit trees in the forest 



