678 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 



Species. 



a'. Larger; wing, 80 mm. or more leucogenys (p. 678) 



a^. Smaller; wing less than 80 mm.; general color more brownish. 



steerei (p. 678) 



092. PYRRHULA LEUCOGENYS Grant. 



PHILIPPINE BULLFINCH. 



Pyrrhula leucogenys Grant, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club (1895), 4, 41; Ibis 

 (1895), 455, pi. 14 {leucogenis) ; Whitehead, Ibis (1899), 239 (feed- 

 ing habits and young) ; McGbegob and Worcester, Hand-List n906), 

 103. 



Luzon (Whitehead, Mearns, McGregor). 



Adult male. — Forehead, entire top of head, upper tail-coverts, rec- 

 trices, and secondaries glossy steel-blue; lores, jaw, and chin black; 

 cheeks and auriculars white, forming a large patch; back olive-brown; 

 under parts lighter brown; middle of abdomen and under tail-coverts 

 light ochraceous-brown ; rump-band white; primaries black, edged with 

 steel-blue ; innennost secondary edged with orange- vermilion on the outer 

 web; greater coverts widely tipped with light buff; axillars and wing- 

 lining white. Iris dark brown; bill white or pale yellow, black at tip 

 and along the cutting edges; legs pale flesh-color. Length, about 160; 

 wing, 78; tail, 61; depth of fork, 12; bill from nostril, 9; tarsus, 16.5. 



Adult female. — Like the male, except that the red on the innermost 

 secondary is brownish orange. The difference is very slight and my 

 specimens have no red whatever on the secondary. A female from Pauai, 

 Mountain Province, Luzon, measures : Wing, 79 ; tail, 65 ; bill from 

 nostril, 10; tarsus, 16. 



An immature, but fully grown, male differs from the adult in having 

 the crown brown, but somewhat darker than the back and with a few 

 black feathers; lores and jaw dusky; white cheek-patch small and poorly 

 defined; chin dusky; throat and breast slightly olivaceous. 



This bullfinch is not uncommon in the mossy oak forests of the high- 

 lands of Luzon. 



G93. PYRRHULA STEEREI Mearns. 



STEEEE'S BULLFINCH. 

 Pyrrhula steerei Meakns, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. (1909), 36, 445. 

 Mindanao ( Mearns ) . 



"Characters. — Similar to Pyrrhula leucogenys Grant, from the moun- 

 tains of Lepanto in northern Luzon. The Mindanao bird differs in 

 being smaller, with a differently colored, much smaller bill, more brown- 

 ish coloration, and a tendency to whitening on the middle of the abdomen, 

 which the Luzon bird lacks. 



"Adult male {type, hilled July 9). — Crown and front of head all 

 round, to just behind eye, black; crown glossed with purplish blue; lores, 

 malar region, chin, and upper throat dead black; auriculars white; 



