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olive-greenish tinge, the head and face browner. Below it is yellow, 

 duller than in the adult, the throat olive; wings and tail browner than 

 in the adult, with the same white spotting, but not so pronounced." 

 {Sharpe.} 



Genus PENTHOENIS Hellmayr, 1901. 



The genus Penthornis is distinguished from Pardalipanis by its nearly 

 uniform black plumage and white frontal band. 



Species. 



o^ Wings uniform black with no white bar _— semilarvatus (p. 608) 



a'. Wings black, but with a conspicuous white bar near the base of primaries 

 and secondaries tessacourbe (p. 608) 



597. PENTHORNIS SEMILARVATUS (Salvadori). 

 WHITE-FACED BLACK TITMOUSE. 



Melaniparus semilarvatus Salvadori, Atti Soc. Ital. Sc. Nat. (1865), 8, 



375; Ibis (1879), 300, pi. 9. 

 Parus semilarvatus Gadow, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1883), 8, 38; White- 



nEAD, Ibis (1899), 224 (habits). 

 Penthornis semilarvatus Sharpe, Hand-List (1903), 4, 333; McGbegob and 



Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 94. 



Luzon (Whitehead, McGregor) ; Negros (Steere Exp.). 



Adult male. — Greater part of plumage glossy black, the following parts 

 white : Forehead to opposite center of eye, lores, line under eye, fore part 

 of cheeks; a concealed patch on hind neck formed by the white bases of 

 the feathers; part of the inner webs of wing and quills, wing-lining, 

 axillars, and outer webs of under tail-coverts white. In one specimen 

 before me, probably immature, the tail-coverts are entirely black. Iris 

 light brown; bill, legs, and nails black. Length, about 130; wing, 75; 

 tail, 50; culmen from base, 12; bill from nostril, 9; tarsus, 17. 



Female. — A female from Bataan Province, Luzon, has the under parts 

 mostly seal-brown but this is probably because of immaturity. Wing, 71 ; 

 tail, 59; culmen from base, 12; bill from nostril, 9; tarsus, 15. 



598. PENTHORNIS TESSACOURBE (Scopoli). 

 WHITE-WINGED BLACK TITMOITSE. 



Muscicapa tessacourbe Scopoli, Del. Flor. et Faun. Insubr. (1786), 2, 95 



( based on Sonnerat's figure ) . 

 Muscicapa luzoniensis Gmelin, Syst. Nat. (1788), 1, pt. 2, 942 (same basis 



as Sco poll's name),. 

 Micropus nehrkorni Blasius, Jour, fiir Orn. (1890), 147. 

 Penthornis luzoniensis Shabpe, Hand-List (1903), 4, 333; McGregor and 



Worcester, Hand- List (1906), 94. 



Mindanao (Sonneratf, Platen). 



Male. — Similar to Penthornis semilarvatus, but with a broad white 

 band across the inner primaries and outer secondaries near their bases. 



