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475. HYPSIPETES FUGENSIS Grant. 
FUGA RED-EARED BULBUL. 
Hypsipetes fugensis GRANT, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club (1895), 5, 2; Ibis (1896), 
113; WHITEHEAD, Ibis (1899), 214; Smarpr, Hand-List (1901), 3, 
310; McGregor, Bull. Philippine Mus. (1904), 4, 31; McGrecor and 
WorcEsTER, Hand-List (1906), 79. 
Sa-mot’, Calayan. 
Calayan (McGregor) ; Fuga (Whitehead, McGregor, Mearns). 
Male and female——Top of head and crest dark brown, the feathers 
edged with slate-gray; back, rump, and tail-coverts warm brown or light 
seal-brown, the feathers edged with olive-gray; wings and tail dark 
brown; rectrices edged with olive-gray; chin, fore part of throat, and 
cheeks hoary gray; a band of dark reddish brown across ear-coverts and 
lower throat, many of the feathers of throat with white spots on the 
tips of the shafts; rest of under parts ashy brown, becoming fulvous 
on flanks and thighs; feathers on median part of breast tipped with 
white; middle of abdomen white. Iris reddish brown; bill, legs, and 
nails dark brown. Five males from Fuga measure: Wing, 123 to 126; 
tail, 119 to 124; culmen from base, 27 to 29; bill from nostril, 16.5 to 
18; tarsus, 19 to 23. 
“Adult male and female—Most nearly allied to H. squamiceps and 
H. pryeri, having the chestnut ear-coverts united by a band of the same 
color extending across the throat, but the top of the head, which is almost 
devoid of a crest, and the neck are brown, like the back, instead of dark 
slate-gray ; and the white tips to the feathers of the breast and belly are 
almost entirely absent, or only faintly indicated along the middle line 
of the under parts. Length, 267; culmen, 29; wing, 123; tail, 117; 
* tarsus, 21.5.” | (Grant.) 
476. HYPSIPETES BATANENSIS Mearns. 
BATAN RED-EARED BULBUL, 
Hypsipetes batanensis MEARNS, Phil. Jour. Sci. (1907), 2, sec. A, 3575 
McGrecor, Ibid, 342. 
_Pi-uc’, Batan. 
Babuyan Claro (McGregor) ; Batan (Mearns, McGregor). 
4 Diagnosis.—“Exactly like topotypes of Hypsipetes fugensis Grant, but 
larger, and with the forehead rufescent instead of cinereous. Measure- 
' ments.—Type (skin of adult male)—Length, 262; wing, 130; tail, 127; 
— culmen (chord), 28; bill from anterior margin of nostril, 20; tarsus, 26; 
middle toe with claw, about 27. Average of three adult males including 
the type: Length, 264; wing, 128; tail, 127; culmen (chord), 28; bili 
from anterior margin of nostril, 26; middle toe with claw, about 27. 
Adult female: Length, 245; wing, 116; tail, 112; culmen (chord), 25; 
