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CRYPTOLOPHA. 475 
Adult (sexes alike)—Similar to Cryptolopha olivacea, but uniform 
olive-green above with no gray lines on head; lighter on rump and tail- 
coverts; chin and throat clear light yellow; cheeks and ear-coverts ght 
greenish yellow; a band of olive-green from lores through eye to occiput, 
bordered above by a line of greenish yellow. Iris dark gray; upper 
mandible dark brown, lower mandible pale yellow; legs pale blue. Male: 
Length, 127; wing, 58; tail, 44; culmen from base, 14; bill from nostril, 
9; tarsus, 19. Female: Wing, 54; tail, 45; culmen from base, 13; bill 
from nostril, 9; tarsus, 18. 
“Only a single specimen collected, but it is so distinct from the allied 
forms that we have no hesitation in forming a species on the strength 
of it. Legs, feet, and nails very light brown; upper mandible dark 
brown, lower mandible light brown; breeding in Cebu in June.” (Bourns 
and Worcester MS.) ; 
439. CRYPTOLOPHA NIGRORUM Moseley. 
GREEN FLYCATCHER WARBLER. 
Cryptolopha nigrorum MosELEY, Ibis (1891), 47, pl. 2, fig. 1; WHITEHEAD, 
Ibis (1899), 110 (habits). 
Abrornis nigrorum SHARPE, Hand-List (1901), 3, 276; McGrrcor and Wor- 
CESTER, Hand-List (1906), 76.* 
Luzon (Whitehead, McGregor); Mindoro (Whitehead) ; Negros (Steere Hap., 
Whitehead) . 
Adult (sexes alike).—Above dull olive-green, darkest on crown, light- 
est on rump and tail-coverts; wings and tail brown, the feathers edged 
with olive-green ; two outermost pairs of rectrices edged with white on 
inner webs; greater coverts tipped with greenish yellow forming a bar; 
lores and post-ocular band dark brown, surmounted by a greenish yellow 
line; cheeks and ear-coverts greenish yellow; below nearly uniform 
greenish yellow or light olive-green, lightest on abdomen and crissum; 
feathers of throat and breast with white shafts. Length of a male 
from Benguet Province, Luzon, 114; wing, 57; tail, 40; culmen from 
base, 11; bill from nostril, 7; tarsus, 20. Female, wing, 52; tail, 37; 
-eculmen from base, 11; tarsus, 19. 
Young.—An immature bird ‘has the upper parts slightly duller and 
the line over the eye much paler than the adult; throat and breast very 
pale yellow; abdomen and crissum light yellow; the sides more dusky 
than the center of breast and abdomen; pale yellow tips of wing-coverts 
well-marked. 
* Cf. footnote under Cryptolopha olivacea, p. 474. 
