662 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE KIRDS. 



Subfamily ARACHNOTHERIN.^. 



Genus ARACHNOTHEEA Temminck, 1826. 



Bill twice as long as head and much curved; nasal opercles unfeathered ; 

 wing moderate in length; first primary equal to about one-half the 

 second; tail nearly square. Colors olive-green, gray, and yellow, no 

 metallic feathers. ]\Iembers of this genus are easily recognized by their 

 very long bills. 



Species. - 



o^. Forehead, cheeks, ear-coverts, and gape-region feathered. 



b'. Smaller; exposed culnien, about 30 mm.; crissum lemon-yellow. 



flammif era ( p. 662 > 

 i". Larger; exposed culmen, about 35 mm.; crissum pale gray. 



dilutior (p. 663) 

 a^. Forehead, cheeks, ear-coverts, and gape-region naked., phllippinensis (p. 663) 



677. ARACHNOTHERA FLAMMIFERA Tweeddale. 



FLAME-TUFTED SPIDEK HUNTEH. 



Arachnothera fkimmifcra Tweeddale, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1878), 343; Shelley, 

 Monogr. Nectarin. pts. 9 & 10 (1879), 361, pi. 115; Gadow, Cat. Birds 

 Brit. Mus. (1884), 9, 104; Whitehead, Ibis (1899), 230; McGeegor 

 and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 100. 



Basilan (Stcere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, Celestino) ; Bohol (McOregor) ; 

 Leyte (Everett, Steere Exp., Whitehead) ; Mindanao {Platen, Celestino) ; Samar 

 {Steere Exp., Bourns d Worcester, Whitehead) . 



Male. — Above olive-green, the bases of tlie crown-feathers dark brown ; 

 chin, throat, and breast light gray, washed with pale olive-green ; abdomen, 

 flanks, and crissum bright lemon-yellow ; thighs gray, washed with yellow ; 

 a small tuft of feathers on each side of breast cadmium-yellow; wing- 

 feathers blackish brown edged with olive-green; rectrices blackish, edged 

 with olive-green and, except the middle pair, tipped with white and 

 gray ; axillars and wing-lining slightly washed with pale yellow. A male 

 from Basilan measures: Length, 152; wing, 6-1; tail, 43; culmen from 

 base, 35; bill from nostril, 28; tarsus, 15. 



Female. — Slightly smaller than the male and without the yellow pec- 

 toral tufts. A female from Basilan measures: Wing, 59; tail, 38; cul- 

 men from base, 32; bill from nostril, 26; tarsus, 15. 



"Four males average: Length, 141; wing, 62; tail, 45; culmen, 34; 

 tarsus, 15; middle toe with claw, 16. A female, length, 148; wing, 62; 

 tail, 41; culmen, 41; tarsus, 16; middle toe with claw, 16. Iris reddish 

 brown; legs and feet slate-blue; upper mandible black, lower black at 

 tip, gray at base." {Bourns and Worcester MS.) 



