514 MANUAL OF rillLlPriXK BIRDS. 



Genus TRICHOPHOEUS Temminck, 1831. 



This genus resembles Irena in having long nuchal hairs and a rather 

 short, slightly compressed, bill, but in Trichophorus the nostrils are ex- 

 posed and the wings are relatively short and rounded, the primaries 

 exceeding the secondaries by about the length of tarsus; head slightly 

 crested ; the colors are olive-yellow, light yoUow, !)rown. and gray. 



Si)ecies. 



a'. Chin and throat clear gray; much larger; wing, more than !)5 mm. 



f rater (p. 514) 



a-. Chin and throat gray, streaked witli yellow ; much smaller ; wing. less than 



90 mm palawanensis (p. .51.5) 



490. TRICHOPHORUS FRATER (Sliarpe). 

 GRAY-THROATED HAIRY BULBUL. 



Criniger fratcr 8harpe, Trans. Linn. Soc. 2d. ser. Zool. (1877), 1, 334; 



Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1881), 6, 79, pi. 5; Hand-List (1901), 3, 317: 



McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), SO. 

 TrichopJiorus f rater Obekholser, Smiths. Misc. Colls. (1905), 48, 152. 



Balabac (Steere Exp., Everett); Calamianes (Bourns & Vforcester) ; Palawan 

 [Steere Everett, Whitehead, Platen, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, Celesiino, 

 White). 



Adult. — Top of head dark tan-brown; back and rump olive-green; 

 upper tail-coverts and roctrices tan-l)rown, edged with tawny olive; lores, 

 sides of face, a narrow superciliuni, and ear-coverts light gray, the last 

 streaked with white; chin, throat, and breast clear light gray with wliite 

 shaft-lines; feathers of breast edged with yellow; rest of under parts 

 yellow, darker on crissum and slightly olivaceous on sides and flanks; 

 wings brown, quills edged with ruddy olive on outer webs and with 

 ocherous-white on inner webs; axillars and wing-lining pale yellow. 

 Sexes similar in colors. Length, about 230. A male measures: Wing, 

 108 ; tail, 97 ; culmen from base, 23 ; l)ill from nostril, 14 ; tarsus, 22. 

 A female, wing, 100; tail, 92; culmen from base, 21; bill frorii nostril, 

 13; tarsus, 20. 



"This bulbul is very common and feeds always in the woods, so fd-r 

 as our observation goes. Four males average: Lenglh, 213; wing, 104; 

 tail, 92; culmen, 23; tarsus, 19; middle toe with claw, 21. A female, 

 length, 209: wing. 100: tail. 88; cnlmen, 23: tarsus, 20; middle too 



