XEOCEPHUS. 461 
male birds average 190 in length; wing, 87; tail, 110; culmen, 17; 
tarsus, 21; middle toe with claw, 18. Four females, length, 190; wing, 
81; tail, 99; culmen, 17; tarsus, 20; middle toe with claw, 18. Bill, 
legs, feet, and nails black.” (Bouwrns and Worcester MS.) 
Two eggs collected by Steere in Marinduque, May 8, 1888, are de- 
scribed as follows: 
“Shape ovate. Ground-color pale creamy white, with a rather wide 
zone round the middle composed of small blotches and spots of pale 
yellowish brown or Javender-gray; a few scattered spots of the same 
colors over the rest of the shell. Measurements 18 mm. by 14 mm.” 
(Grant and Whitehead.) 
A set of three eggs, also collected in Marinduque by Steere, are said 
to be similar to the above but with the markings rather smaller. The 
measurements are 19 by 15. 
“The two nests are of the usual cup-shaped type, constructed of tightly 
woven fiber and wide dead grass bound together with spiders’ webs, and 
neatly lined with fine grasses and black fiber.” (Grant and Whitehead.) 
Genus XEOCEPHUS Bonaparte, 1854. 
Eye surrounded by a wide fleshy wattle; depth of bill at nostril about 
two-thirds of its width; rictal bristles strong; first primary more than 
“one-half of second and less than one-half of third; fourth, fifth, and 
sixth subequal; tarsus equal to exposed culmen; rectrices strongly 
graduated ; color nearly uniform, bright reddish brown, or blue. 
Species. 
a. Plumage bright chestnut-rufous. 
b*. Central rectrices greatly lengthened (northern islands) ......... rufus (p. 461) 
b?. Central rectrices never greatly lengthened (southern islands). 
cinnamomets (p. 463) 
Po ummage nearly sanitorm. blire.2 5. ol na. asesWeves-nget omnes cyanescens (p. 463) 
424. XEOCEPHUS RUFUS (Gray). 
LONG-TAILED RUFOUS FLYCATCHER, 
Tchitrea rufa GRAY, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (1843), 11, 371. 
Zeocephus rufus SHARPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1879), 4, 343; Hand-List 
(1901), 3, 262; Grant, Ibis (1896), 112; Grant and WHITEHEAD, 
Ibis (1898), 235, pl. 5, fig. 4 (egg); WHITEHEAD, Ibis (1899), 102 
(habits) ; Oates and RE, Cat. Birds’ Eggs (1903), 3, 279; McGrecor 
and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 74. 
Mus-ca-dér ca-né-lo, Manila. 
Cebu (Bourns & Worcester, McGregor) ; Lubang (McGregor) ; Luzon (Cuming, 
Heriot, Méllendorff, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, Whitehead, McGregor) ; 
Marinduque (Steere Exp.) ; Mindoro (Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, McGre- 
gor); Negros (Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester); Panay (Steere Hap., Bourns 
é& Worcester) ; Romblon (Bourns & Worcester, McGregor) ; Samar (Whitehead) ; 
Sibuyan (Bourns & Worcester, McGregor); Tablas (Bourns & Worcester, Ce- 
lestino). 
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