PRIONOCHILL'S. 639 



wings, and tail, glossy blue-black; under parts cinereous; chin, a narrow 

 line on middle of breast, center of abdomen, crissum, thighs, axillars, 

 wing-lining, and inner webs of quills white ; flanks washed with light olive. 

 Length, 90 ; wing, 53 ; tail, 25 ; culmen from base, 10 ; bill from nostril, 

 6 ; greatest width of bill, 7 ; tarsus, 14. 



"Adult female. — i\.bove brown, head faintly washed with olive; back, 

 wing-coverts, and outer webs of secondaries heavily washed with olive- 

 yellow, rump almost entirely of the latter color; entire under surface 

 grayish white faintly tinged with olive-yellow, lighter along center of 

 breast and abdomen; under wing-coverts, axillars, and inner webs of 

 quills pure white. 



"Young male. — Like female but lacks yellow wash on outer webs of 

 secondaries, the wing and tail being black as in adult male." {Bourns 

 and Worcester.) 



"The locality Panaon, assigned to this species in the Catalogue of 

 Birds, is a manifest error. The type specimen, an unsexed bird which 

 was rightly supposed to be a male, was obtained in Cebu by Everett. No 

 additional specimen seems to have been secured until 1892, when we again 

 found it in Cebu. Ten males average as follows : Length, 90 ; wing, 52 ; 

 tail, 26; culmen, 11.4; tarsus, 13.4; middle toe with claw, 13.7. Six 

 females, length, 89; wing, 52; tail, 25; culmen, 11.6; tarsus, 13.4; 

 middle toe with claw, 14. Iris chocolate-brown; bill, legs, feet, and 

 nails black. Breeding in June. Food fruit." (Bourns and Worcester 

 MS.) 



(148. PRIONOCHILUS OLIVACEUS Tweeddalc. 



OLIVACEOUS FLOWERPECKER. 



Prioiiochilus olivacetts Tweeddale, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (1877), 20, 

 536; Proe. Zool. Soc. (1878), 111, pi. 8, fig. 3; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. 

 Mus. (1885), 10, 75; Whitehead, Ibis (1899), 235; McGregor and 

 Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 97. 



Basilan {Steere Exp., Bourns (£• Worcester, McGregor) ; Boliol (McGregor) ; 

 Dinagat {Everett) ; Leyte {Whitehead) ; ^lindanao (Platen) ; .Samar (White- 

 head ) . 



Male.-*~Aho\e bright olive-green; wing-feathers and rectrices olive- 

 brown, edged with olive-green; lores white; under parts smoke-gray; 

 ciiin, a broad median line on throat, breast, and abdomen white, sides of 

 abdomen and flanks streaked with white; thighs smoke-gray mixed with 

 white; crissum wliite faintly washed with yellow; axillars and wing- 

 lining white. Length, about 100. A male from -Basilan measures: 

 Wing, 56; tail, 26; culmen from base. 10; bill from nostril, 6.5', greatest 

 width of bill, 6.5; tarsus, 15. 



Female. — Similar to the male, but with the gray of under parts more 

 ashy. A female from Basilan, wing, 54 ; tail, 25 ; culmen from base, 

 10; bill from nostril, G.5 ; tarsus. 13. 



