698 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 



710. ORIOLUS SAMARENSIS Steere. 



SAMAR ORIOLE. 



Oriolus samarensis Steere, List Birds & Mams. Steere Exped. (1890), 17; 

 Grant, Ibis (1897), 223; Whitehead, Ibis (1899), 100 (habits); 

 McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 106. 



Leyte (Whitehead); Mindanao (Celestino) ; Samar (Steere Exp., Bourns d 

 Worcester, Whitehead) . 



Adult (sexes alil-e). — Upper parts, ear-coverts, sides of neck, second- 

 ary-coverts, tertials, and middle pair of rectrices ricli olive-yellow; lores, 

 jaw, chin, throat, and chest cinereous; lower breast, abdomen, flanks, 

 and thighs white, boldly streaked with black; crissum briglit gamboge- 

 yellow; primaries blackish edged with gray or olive on the outer webs; 

 secondaries blackish, edged with olive-yellow on outer webs; inner webs 

 of quills broadly edged with bright lemon-yellow; axillars, wing-lining, 

 and bend of wing lemon-yellow; rectrices largely olive-yellow, blackish 

 subterminally, each of the inner webs with a large yellow spot at the tip ; 

 shafts black above, yellow below. Bill dull red. A male from northern 

 Mindanao measures : Wing, 113 ; tail, 79 ; culmen from base, 25 ; bill from 

 nostril, 17; tarsus, 21. An unsexed specimen from Samar, wing, 101; 

 tail, 68; culmen from base, 20; bill from nostril, 15; tarsus, 20. 



"A well-marked species sharjily distinct from 0. steeri, as well as 

 from 0. assimilis, though Dr. Steere has not made the points of difference 

 very plain. Five males average: Length, 195; wing, 105; tail, 72; 

 culmen, 24 ; tarsus, 20.5 ; middle toe with claw, 22.3. A female measures : 

 Length, 203; wing, 104; tail, 71; culmen, 23; tarsus, 20.5; middle toe 

 with claw, 22. Iris dull brown to light brownish red ; legs and feet dark 

 slate-color, nails blackish; bill light to dark reddish brown." (Bourns 

 and Wo7-cestcr MS.) 



711. ORIOLUS STEERI Sbarpe. 

 STEERE'S ORIOLE, 



Oriolus steerii Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. October or earlier (1877), 3, 

 213, pi. 10 (description of adult from Negros) ; Grant, Ibis (1896), 

 532 (Negros; key to Philippine species of Oriolus) ; C'i-arke. Ibis 

 (1898), 119; Whitehead, Ibis (1899), 101 (habits). 



Oriolus nigrostriatus Bourns and Worcester, Minnesota Acad. Nat. Sci. 

 Occ. Papers (1894), 1, 16 (Negros and Masl)ate) ; Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus. (1898), 20, 558, no. 305; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List 

 (1906), 107. 



Masbate (Steere Exp., Bourns d- Worcester) ; Negros (Steere, Keay, White- 

 head, Celestino ) . 



Male. — Above olive-yellow; slightly darker on head, and l)righter, 

 more golden, on rump and tail-coverts ; chin, throat, and chest dark ashy 

 gray; lower breast and abdomen whitish, each feather with a broad 



