640 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 



"Found in the forest and second growth. Never seen about open fields. 

 Feeds on seeds and fruits. Breeding in Basilau in August. Four males 

 from Basilan average: Length, 97; wing, 56; tail, 29; culmen, 12.7; 

 tarsus, 12.9; middle toe with claw, 14.7. Iris brownish red; legs, feet, 

 and nails brown to black; bill black except base of lower mandible, which 

 is ashy gray." {Bourns and Worcester MS.) 



649. PRIONOCHILUS B I CO LOR Bourns and Worcester. 



BICOLORED FLO.WERPECKER. 



Prionochilus bicolor Bourns and Worcester, Minnesota Acad. Nat. Sci. Occ. 

 Papers (1894), 1, 20; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 97. 



Mindanao (Bourns d Worcester). 



"Adult male. — Entire upper surface deep black, with faint metallic 

 blue gloss; entire under surface, including under wing-coverts, axillars, 

 and inner webs of quills, white; bases of feathers of breast, flanks, and 

 abdomen slaty black. Bill, legs, and feet black; iris red. Length, 82.5; 

 wing, 50 ; tail, 24 ; culmen, 10.6 ; tarsus, 14. Found in the hills of Ayala, 

 near Zamboanga." (Bourns and Worcester.) 



650. PRIONOCHILUS INEXPECTATUS TLnrtert. 

 HARTERT'S FLOWERPECKER. 



Prionochilus inexpectatus Hartert, Novit. Zool. (1895), 2, Gi and 486; 



Grant, Ibis (189G), 533, (1897), 240; McGregor and Woecesteb, 



Hand-List (190G), 97. 

 Prionochilus bicolor Whitehead, Ibis (1899), 235. 



Bohol (McGregor) ; Leyte (Whitehead) ; Luzon (Everett, Whitehead, Mc- 

 Gregor) ; Mindoro (Bourns c6 Worcester, Everett, McGregor); Negros (White- 

 head); Samar (Whitehead). 



Male. — Above glossy blue-black; breast, sides, and flanks cinereous; 

 chin, throat, median line of breast and abdomen, crissum, wing-lining, 

 axillars, and inner webs of quills white. Bill, legs, and nails black. A 

 male from Mindoro measures: Length, 90; wing, 49; tail, 23; culmen 

 from base, 9 ; bill from nostril, 6 ; greatest width of bill, 6 ; tarsus, 10. 



Female. — Above brown, washed with olive-green, brightest on rump, 

 tail-coverts, and outer webs of secondaries; below similar to the male, 

 but with a faint olivaceous wash. "Wing, 51 ; tail, 25 ; culmen from base, 

 9 ; bill from nostril, 5.5 ; tarsus, 13. 



"This recently-described species has now beeninet with in Samar and 

 Leyte. It seems more than probable that it is CT»t really distinct from 

 P. bicolor Bourns and Worcester ; but having no typical specimens of the 

 latter form from Mindanao, I can not be certain." (Grant.) 



