PYIUIHULA. 677 



tiOl. LOXIA LUZONIENSIS Grant. 



PHILIPPINE CROSSBILL. 



Loxia luzonicnsis Grant. Bull. Brit. Orn. Club (1S94), 3, 51; Ibis (1894), 

 51(i; Graxt and WiiiTEiiEAO, Ibis (1898), 244 (eggs); Whitehead, 

 Ibis (1899), 239 (nesting habits); McGregor and Worcester. Hand- 

 List (1906). 10.1. 



Cu-di-li-guit, Benguet Igorot. 



Luzon {Mliitehead, M'orccsler, Mcdregor) . 



Adult male. — Plead and body geraninm-red, clearest and brightest on 

 i-ump, tail-coverts, and under parts, more pinkish on throat, paler on 

 abdomen : lores, malar stripe, and ear-coverts dusky ; feathers of back 

 and wing-coverts with dusky bases : thighs drab-gray ; under tail-coverts 

 white, washed with geranium-pink, and with pointed shaft-markings of 

 dark brown : wings and tail Mackish. the larger feathers narrowly edged 

 with geranium-pink, feengtli. aboiU 140; wing. S";J : tail. .")1 : ciilmen 

 from ba.se. 15; tarsus, 15. 



Adult female. — Feathers of upper parts dark brown with lighter edges: 

 feathers of back edged with pale j'ellow; feathers on anterior part of 

 crown edged with light chrome-yellow : rump and tail-feathers nearly 

 unifoiin light chrome-yellow; nasal plumes, lores, and line under eye 

 whitish; cheeks and ear-coverts blackish brown; under parts drab-gray, 

 chin and throat nearly white; breast and abdomen with a faint olive 

 or yellow wash; tail-coverts white with pointed shaft-mai'kings; wing- 

 feathers and rect rices blackish with narrow edges of gray or pale yellow. 

 A female, wing, 80; tail, 40; culraen from base, 16; tarsus, 15. 



Young birds are dingy white heavily streaked, l)oth above and below, 

 with blackish brown and more or less washed with olive-gray, olive-yellow, 

 or light chrome-yellow. Older individuals, probably of the second sum- 

 mer, lose the dark streaks and become extensively yellow, while still 

 older males become indiscriminately mottled with red and yellow. 



''In the end of December, 1893, Mr. \Miitehead noticed a pair of 

 these crossbills with nesting materials in their bills. In the following 

 January, while in the highlands of Benguet, he found a nest containing 

 three eggs and situated at the end of a pine branch. The slender branch 

 overhung a steep slope, and it was found impossible to secure the eggs. 

 Again on Mount Data, towards the end of January, 1895, after much 

 trouble, a second nest was discovered near the top of a high pine-tree. 

 This nest contained four young birds, two of which flew away before they 

 could be secured." (Grant and Whitehead.) 



Genus PYRRHULA Brisson, 1760. 



Bill very short, stout, and blunt; bill from nostril equal to its width, 

 and to its depth at middle of nostril ; culmen and gonys decidedly curved ; 

 tail nearly square. General color of body buffy brown ; chin black ; 

 rump white. 



