ORioLus. 695 



707. ORIOLUS ACRORHYNCHUS Vigors. 

 PHILIPPINE ORIOLE. 



Oriolus acrorhynchus Vigors, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1831), 97. 



Oriahis chinensis Linnaeus, apud Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1877), 3, 

 203; Grant and Whitehead, Ibis (1898), 235 (eggs); Whitehead, 

 Ibis (1899), 100 (habits); McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List 

 (1906), 106. 



Oriolus stiluensis Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1877), 3, 205. 



Broderipus acrorhynchus Tweeddale, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1877), 760. 



Oriolus palawanensis Sharpe, Ibis (1888), 200. 



Cul-uu-uan, Palawan; cu-U-au-an, Lubang; kee-ao, Calayan and Ticao; tu-H- 

 hao, Bantayan, Bohol, and Masbate; ca-li-lau-an, Cagayancillo ; tu-tu-li-ao, Cuyo; 

 da-mud-lao, Bohol. 



Banton {Celestino) ; Bantayan (McGregor) ; Balabac {Steere, Everett) ; Basilan 

 [Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, McGregor) ; Bohol {Everett, McGregor) ; 

 Bongao {Everett) ; Cagayancillo {McGregor) ; Calamianes {Bourns d Worcester, 

 Mc&regor) ; Calayan {McGh-egor) ; Caluya {Porter); Camiguin N. (McGregor); 

 Catanduanes (Whitehead) ; Cebu (Meyer, Murray, Everett, Boui~ns & Worcester, Mc- 

 Gregor) ; Cuyo (McGi'egor) ; Dinagat (Everett); Fuga (Whitehead); Guimaras 

 (Meyer, Murray, Steere Exp., Bourns d Worcester) ; Lapac (Gmllemard) ; Leyte 

 (Everett, Steere Exp.) ; Libagao (Porter) ; Lubang (McGregor) ; Luzon (Cuming, 

 Meyer, Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns d Worcester, Whitehead, McGregor, Bartsch ) ; 

 Maestre de Campo (McGiregor & Worcester) ; Marinduque (Steere Exp.) ; Masbate 

 (Bourns & Worcester, McGregor) ; Mindanao (Steere, Murray, Everett, Steere Exp., 

 Bourns & Worcester, Goodfellow, Bartsch); Mindoro (Steere Exp., Schmacker, 

 Bourns & Worcester, McGregor) ; Xegros (Layard, Meyer, Steere, Everett, Steere 

 Exp., Bourns d Worcester, Keay) ; Palawan (Everett, Lempri-ere, Platen, White- 

 head, Steere Exp., Bourns d Worcester, White) ; Panaon (Everett) ; Panay (Mur- 

 ray, Steere Exp., Bourns d Worcester) ; Pangamian (Bartsch) ; Polillo (Mc- 

 Giegor); Romblon (Bourns d Worcester); Samar (Steere Exp.) ; Semirara (Mc- 

 Gregor d Worcester) ; Sibay (McGregor d Worcester, Porter) ; Sibutu (Low, 

 Everett) ; Sibuyan (Bourns d Worcester, McGregor) ; Siquijor (Steere Exp., 

 Bourns d Worcester, Celestino) ; Sulu (Burbidge, Guillemard, Bourns d Wor- 

 cester) ; Tablas (Bourns d Worcester) ; Tawi Tawi (Bourns d Worcester) ; Ticao 

 ( McGu'Cgor ) ; Verde ( McGregor ) . 



Adult male. — Briglit golden yellow and black; forehead and part of 

 crown yellow ; lores, a wide space about eye continued witli a broad band 

 across crown and occiput black, forming a broad crescent-shaped mark; 

 wings black, some of the primaries narrowly edged with gray; tertials 

 tipped with yellow; secondary-coverts, axillars, wing-lining, and edge of 

 wing bright yellow; rectrices black, tipped with yellow, the yellow tip 

 narrowest on the central pair and gradually wider on each succeeding 

 pair to the outermost; entire under parts bright yellow, not so deep as 

 the back. Iris pale pink; bill pinkish flesh-color; legs plumbeous; nails 



