OETHOTOMUS. ^ 573 



e^. Chestnut of forehead not sharply defined, but merging into dull 



olive-gray on crown mearnsi (p. 574) 



dr. Chestnut of head covering the entire forehead, crown, and occiput. 



chloronotus ( p. 575 ) 

 c^. Back gray. 



d}. Outer webs of rectrices green castaneiceps (p. 574) 



d\ Outer webs of rectrices dull chestnut, gray basally. 



e\ Wing-feathers edged with green; throat and breast white, streaked 



with gray derbianus (p. 575) 



e^. Wing-feathers edged with gray; throat and breast white. 



ruficeps (p. 576) 

 b'. Chin and ear-coverts, as well as forehead and crown, cinnamon-rufous. 



cineraceous (p. 576) 

 a*. Top of head smoky gray or black; throat black in the adult. 



5*. Thighs gieen; middle of breast and of abdomen black or smoky gray. 

 c*. Ear-coverts white forming a conspicuous patch; top of head dark smoky 



gray cinereiceps (p. 577) 



c*. Ear-coverts black; top of head black; eyebrow and eye-circle white. 



nigriceps (p. 578) 

 v. Thighs chestnut; entire breast and abdomen bright yellow. 



samarensis (p. 578) 



554. ORTHOTOMUS FRONTALIS Sharpe. 



SHARPE'S TAILORBIRD. 



Vrthotomtis frontalis Sharpe, Ibis (1877), 112, pi. 2, fig. 1; Trans. Linn. 

 Soc. 2d ser. Zool. (1877), 1, 33G (part) ; Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1883), 

 7, 220 (part); Hand-List (1903), 4, 192 (part); Whitehead, Ibis 

 (1899), 219 (habits); McGeegor and Wobcesteb, Hand-List (1906), 



88 (part). 



Bohol (Everett, McGregor); Dinagat [Everett); Leyte (Steere Exp., White- 

 head) ; Mindanao (Steere, Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, Goodfellow, 

 Celestino, Clemens, Bartsch) ; Samar [Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, White- 

 head ) . 



Adult. — Forehead, lores, and ring around eye rufous-chestnut, shar])ly 

 defined against the ashy gray crown; ear-coverts, sides of neck, and 

 hind neck ashy gray like the crown; back, rump, tail-coverts, and edges 

 of wing-feathers and of rectrices bright olive-green, the last with a 

 dusky subterminal band; under parts white, more or less streaked with 

 cinereous on throat and breast ; sides ashy ; flanks and under tail-coverts 

 washed with light yellowish green; thighs chestnut. Length, about 11."). 

 A male from northern Mindanao measures : Wing, 44 ; tail, 35 ; culmeu 

 from base, 15; bill from nostril, 11; tarsus, 19. A female from Bohol. 

 wing, 41 ; tail, 34 ; culmen from base, 16 ; bill from nostril, 11 ; tarsus, 10. 



Specimens in fresh plumage have the occiput more or less washed 

 with green; the dusky spots at end of tail are variable. 

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