612 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 



Genus EHABDORNIS Eeichenbach, 1853. 



Characters the same as those given for the Family. Upper parts brown 



or gray, and black, streaked with white ; under parts white, sides streaked 



with brown or black. 



Species. 



o\ Head and nape heavily streaked with white. 



6\ Bill longer, about 16 mm. from nostril; upper parts grayer. 



mystacalis (p. 612) 

 b-. Bill shorter, about 14 mm. from nostril; upper parts browner. 



minor (p. 612) 

 or. Head and nape uniform dull brown or else dark gray ..— inornatus (p. 013) 



603. RHABDORNIS MYSTACALIS (Temminck). 



PHILIPPINE CREEPER. 



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Meliphaga mystacalis Temminck, PI. Col. (1825), pi. 335, fig. 2. 



Climacteris mystacalis Gadow, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1883), 8, 339. 



Rhahdornis mystacalis Sharfe, Hand-List (1903), 4, 356; Whitehead, 

 Ibis (1899), 226 (habits, anatomy) ; McGregor and Worcestee, Hand- 

 List (1906), 95. 



Luzon (Meyer, Mollendorff, Steere Exp., Bourns tC- Worcester, Whitehead, 

 McGregor) ; Masbate [Bourns & Worcester) ; Negros (Bourns & Worcester, White- 

 head, Velestino) ; Panay (Steere Exp., Bourns tC Worcester). 



Male. — Top of head and hind neck with broad white shaft-streaks; 

 back and rump drab-gray, the shafts of the featiiers white; wings like 

 the back ; primaries, secondaries, and rectrices blackish brown ; inner 

 webs of wing-quills edged with light buff; stripe under eye, on ear- 

 coverts, and on side of neck black ; under parts white ; feathers of sides, 

 flanks, and crissum bordered with black, producing a streaked appearance; 

 under wing-coverts and axillars pale buff. Length, about 155. A male 

 from Bataan Province, Luzon, measures : Wing, 83 ; tail, 49 ; culmen 

 from base, 24; bill from nostril, 1?; tarsus, 18. 



Female. — Top of head, nape, and ear-coverts brown. 



"This creeper feeds in deep woods, but is more common in second 

 growth ; it is nowhere very abundant. Very variable in size and in 

 length of bill. Three males average as follows: Culmen, 26; wing, 80; 

 tail, 26 ; tarsus, 20 ; middle toe with claw, 20.5. A female, length, 149 ; 

 wing, «0; tail, 49; culmen, 23; tarsus, 18; middle toe with claw, 19.5. 

 Bill, legs, and feet black." {Bourns and \Vorceste7- MS.) 



004. RHABDORNIS MINOR Grant. 



LESSER CREEPER. 



Rhabdornis minor Grant, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club (1890), 6, 17; Ibis (1897), 

 234; Whitehead, Ibis (1899), 227 (habits); Shabpe, Hand-List 

 (1903), 4, 356; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 95. 



BasJhn iCelestino) ; Bohol (McGregor) ; Dinagat (Everett); Leyte (Steere 

 Exp., Whitehead) ; Mindanao (Everett, Celestino) ; Samar (Whitehead, Bourns 

 d Worcester). 



