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first primary, broadly edged with white; secondaries edged with white 
on both webs; lesser wing-coverts black; median coverts with wide white 
tips forming a bar; greater caggrts edged with white near their tips 
forming a second bar. A male from Palawan measures: Wing, 66; tail, 
51; culmen from base, 18; bill from nostril, 12; tarsus, 20. 
Female.—Above similar to the male, but forehead more greenish, and 
tail and coverts green like the back; under parts lighter yellow than 
in the male; wings blackish and the tail-markings more or less washed 
with yellowish green. A female measures: Wing, 62; tail, 51; culmen 
from base, 17.5; tarsus, 18. 
“Very common in Palawan but not found by us in the Calamianes. 
Five males average: Length, 146; wing, 63; tail, 50; culmen, 19; tarsus, 
18; middle toe with claw, 16. Four females, length, 138; wing, 60; 
tail, 52; culmen, 18; tarsus, 18; middle toe with claw, 16. Iris light 
yellow to grayish white; legs and feet slate-blue; nails darker than feet ; 
upper mandible black, gray along gape; lower mandible grayish white.” 
(Bourns and Worcester MS.) 
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Genus CHLOROPSIS Jardine and Selby, 1826. 
A distinct notch near the tip of each mandible; tarsus slightly less 
than culmen from base; difference between the length of primaries and 
of secondaries equal to about two-thirds of tarsus. Plumage nearly all 
bright grass-green, the difference between the sexes very slight. 
Species. 
a. hin’ andy throabh Pbright ryell Owes. caresses cee eee ae ce palawanensis (p. 498) 
a. Chin and throat light green, the chin slightly washed with yellow. 
flavipennis (p. 499) 
469. CHLOROPSIS PALAWANENSIS (Sharpe). 
PALAWAN LEAFBIRD, 
Phyllornis palawanensis SHARPE, Trans. Linn. Soc. 2d. ser. Zool. (1877), 1, 
333, figs. 1 and 2. 
Chloropsis palawanensis SHARPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1881), 6, 33; Hand- 
List (1901), 3, 308; McGrecor and WorcEestTER, Hand-List (1906), 78. 
Balabae (Hverett); Calamianes (Bouwrns & Worcester); Palawan (Steere, 
Whitehead, Platen, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, Celestino, White). 
Male.—Grass-green, much darker above than below; lores and a.small 
patch at base of lower mandible light blue, behind the latter a moustachial 
line of lilac, above this and below eye a band of golden yellow; eye 
surrounded by a circle of purple feathers; chin and throat golden yellow; 
lesser wing-coverts on bend of wing bluish purple; remainder of second- 
ary-coverts and secondaries edged with green; alula and primary-coverts 
blue, slightly washed with purple; primaries black, edged with light 
blue on outer webs and with white on inner webs; rectrices, below dark 
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