ANUKOPSIS. 525 



Genus ANUEOPSIS Sharpe, 1883. 



Bill from nostril less than one-half the tarsus; nostril with an over- 

 liaiiging membrane; rictal bristles weak, the longest less than bill from 

 nostril; wing very short and rounded; tail very short and soft, not more 

 than one-half the wing; legs and feet very large, when outstretched 

 extending well beyond the end of tail; tarsus about equal to tail; body 

 plumage soft and decomposed. 



503. ANUROPSIS CINEREICEPS ( Tweeddale ) . 



ASHY-HEADED ■WOOD BABBLEE. 



Drymocataphus cinereiceps Tweeddale, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1878), 617. 

 Anuropsis cinereiceps Shakpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1883), 7, 590; 



Hand-List (1903), 4, 41; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 



81. 



Balabac (Everett) ; Palawan (Everett, Lempricre, Whitehead, Platen, Bourns 

 d Worcester, Celestino ) . 



Male. — Top of head and hind neck ashy gray, lighter on lores and 

 ear-coverts ; remainder of upper parts fulvous-brown, more rusty on outer 

 webs of primaries and secondaries : chin, throat, and middle of breast and 

 abdomen white; sides of breast, flanks, thighs, and crissum light tan or 

 ocherous-brown, e.xtending faintly across fore-breast. Length, 114; 

 wing, 61 ; tail, 30 ; culmen from base, 18 ; bill from nostril, 11 ; tarsus, 27. 



"Adult female. — (Puerto Princesa, Palawan, January, 1878; A. Ever- 

 ett; type of species). General color above dark fulvous-brown, with 

 faintly indicated pale shaft-stripes to the feathers of the mantle; the 

 plumage of the lower back and rump very full and lax, with dusky or 

 silver}'' gray bases; lesser and median wing-coverts like the back, with 

 the same pale shaft-lines; greater series dark fulvous-brown; quills dark 

 brown internally, externally dark fulvous-brown, somewhat ashy on the 

 outer webs of the primaries; tail-feathers dark fulvous-brown; crown of 

 head dark ashy gray, the hind neck and sides of neck lighter ashy gray; 

 lores and feathers round the eye ashy whitish ; ear-coverts light ashy gray 

 witli whitish shaft-lines ; cheeks white, with a narrow line of black along 

 their upper margin ; entire throat pure white, as also the entire abdomen ; 

 breast and sides of the bod}^, thighs, and under tail-coverts light fulvous- 

 brown, with paler shaft-lines on the feathers of the breast ; axillars fulvous 

 with white bases ; under wing-coverts fulvous ; quills dusky brown below, 

 ashy fulvous along the edge of the inner wel). 'Bill brownish gray, the 

 mandible white; legs pallid, the front of the tarsi tinged brown; iris 

 burnt sienna-orange.' {A. H. Everett.) Length, 144; culmen, 18; wing. 

 GO; taU, 27; tarsus, 28. (Ahis. P. G. Wardlaw-Ramsay) ." (Sharpe.) 



"Rare in the region collected in by us; a single male obtained. It 

 measures: Length, l*??: wing. 61: tail, 27; culmen, 20; tarsus, 27: 

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