collected in the Philippine Islands. 227 



namely, among the Creepers. The tougue is brush-tipped, after 

 the manner of insectivorous birds which feed among flowers. 

 This Flower-Creeper is fairly common in Luzon, where 

 it frequents true forest ; the same species occurs in the 

 Negros group of islands, but as yet no member of the genus 

 has been recorded from Mindoro. The next species takes its 

 place in the Samar-Mindanao group. 



137. Rhabdornis minor Grant, Ibis, 1897, p. 234. 

 Occasionally met with in the forests of Samar and Leite ; 



in habits it resembles R. mystacalis. R. minor is also known 

 from Mindanao. [Cf. Ibis, 1897, p. 235.) 



138. Rhabdornis inornatus Grant, Ibis, 1897, p. 235, 

 pi. vi. fig. 2. 



Though constantly on the look-out for this bird, we obtained 

 only three males in almost as many months. This species 

 inhabits the same forests as R. minor in Samar ; we did not 

 obtain it in Leite, where it doubtless occurs. [Cf. Ibis, 

 1897, p. 235.) 



139. Dendrophila oenochlamys Sharpe. (Grant, Ibis, 

 1896, p. 550.) 



Fairly common in the forests at the base of Canloon vol- 

 cano, Negros, and ascending that mountain as far as the trees 

 grow, which is to over 6000 feet, the birds from the various 

 elevations being similar in plumage. 



Iris straw-yellow ; orbital skin on bill greenish gamboge- 

 yellow, but the bill of a greener tint and tipped with brown ; 

 feet dark olive-green. 



140. Dendrophila mesoleuca Grant, Ibis, 1894, p. 512; 

 1895, pp. Ill, 450, pi. iv. fig. 2; 1896, p. 119. 



Common in the mountains of North Luzon, being found 

 up to 8000 feet on Monte Data. A series from Luzon shows 

 us that birds collected on the coast cannot be distinguished 

 from D. oenochlamys ; that specimens collected at 1000 feet 

 can hardly be separated from that species, and that they 

 become D. mesoleuca in the highlands at an altitude of 5000 or 

 6000 feet ; while those collected still higher at 8000 feet 



