470 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 
432. RHINOMYIAS RUFICAUDA (Sharpe). 
RUFOUS-TAILED RHINOMYIAS, 
Setaria ruficauda SHARPE, Tra Linn. Soc. 2d. ser. Zool. (1877), 1, 327. 
Rhinomyias ruficauda SHarPe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1879), 4, 368; 
Hand-List (1901), 3, 267; Wuirenrap, Ibis (1899), 109; McGrrcaor 
and WorcESTER, Hand-List (1906), 75. 
Setaria samarensis STEERE, List Birds & Mams. Steere Exped. (1890), 16. 
Basilan (Steere, Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester); Bohol (Mc- 
Gregor); Leyte (Whitehead); Mindanao (Steere Exp., Goodfellow, Celestino) ; 
Samar (Steere Hxup., Whitehead). 
Adult male——Above rich olive-brown, darkest on the head; wing- 
feathers blackish, edged with olive-brown; tail-coverts and rectrices fer- 
ruginous; lores and ear-coverts pale gray, the latter washed with olive; 
under parts white, washed on sides of throat and of body with pale gray; 
thighs brown. Bill black; iris brown; legs light blue. Length of a male 
from Basilan, 152; wing, 74; tail, 57; culmen from base, 17; bill from 
nostril, 11; tarsus, 18. 
Adult female.—Similar to the male but lores obscured with brown and 
ear-coverts olive-brown. A female from Mindanao measures: Length, 
152; wing, 71; tail, 54; culmen from base, 15; bill from nostril, 10; 
tarsus, 16. 
Immature.—Sides and flanks washed with brown and feathers of breast 
edged more or less with brown; greater and median wing-coverts tipped 
with spots of light ocherous brown. 
See notes on this species under Rhinomytas albigularis. 
“Not rare in deep forest on Basilan. An immature bird has feathers 
of head with rufous shaft-markings; feathers of back, and upper wing- 
coverts with large spots of same color edged with black; breast similarly 
but more faintly spotted. 
“Five males from Basilan average: Length, 143; wing, 74; tail, 60; 
culmen, 17; tarsus, 16; middle toe with claw, 21. Four females, length, 
129; wing, 69; tail, 50; culmen, 16; tarsus, 15; middle toe with claw, 
16. Iris dark brown; legs and feet light slate; nails same; bill black.” 
(Bourns and Worcester MS.) 
433. RHINOMYIAS OCULARIS Bourns and Worcester. 
CHESTNUT-EYED RHINOMYIAS, 
Rhinomyias occularis BourNs and WorcEsTER, Minnesota Acad. Nat. Sci. 
Oce. Papers (1894), 1, 27 (error). 
Rhinomyias ocularis SHARPE, Hand-List (1901), 3, 267; McGrecor and 
WokrcEstTeR, Hand-List (1906), 75. 
Sulu (Bourns & Worcester); Tawi Tawi (Bourns é Worcester). 
“Adult (sexes alike).—General color above uniform olive-brown, 
slightly brighter on the rump; tail dark chestnut, much brighter on outer 
webs of feathers which are very dull at tips; wing-coverts like back; 
quills brownish black washed with rusty brown, this becoming whitish on 
