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length; wing, 115; tail, 102; culmen, 31; tarsus, 23; middle toe with 
claw, 23. Iris, legs, feet, and nails dark brown; bill nearly black. Breed- 
ing in June.” (Bourns and Wester MS.) 
Genus POLIOLOPHUS Sharpe, 1877. 
Occipital crest short and pointed; eye surrounded by a narrow wattle; 
bill from base about equal to tarsus; rictal bristles long, the longest 
much more than bill from nostril; rectrices graduated and tipped with 
white; difference between lengths of outermost and middle tail-feathers 
inore than length of bill from nostril. 
488. POLIOLOPHUS UROSTICTUS (Salvadori). 
WATTLED BULBUL, 
Brachypus urostictus SALVADoRI, Atti R. Accad. Se. Torino (1870), 5, 509. 
Pycnonotus wrostictus WALDEN, Trans. Zool. Soc. (1875), 9, pl. 32, fig. 2. 
Poliolophus wrostictus SHARPE, Trans. Linn. Soc. 2d. ser. Zool. (1877), 1, 
334; Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1881), 6, 63 (text figure of head) ; Hand- 
List (1901), 3, 315; WuivrEHEapD, Ibis (1899), 215; Oatres and RED, 
Cat Birds’ Eggs (1903), 3, 308, pl. 10, fig. 9 (egg); McGrecor and 
WoRCESTER, Hand-List (1906), 79. 
Poliolophus basilanicus STEERE, List Birds & Mams. Steere Exped. (1890), 19. 
Basilan (Steere Exp., McGregor); Bohol (McGregor); Catanduanes ( White- 
head); Dinagat (Everett); Leyte (Steere Exp., Whitehead); Luzon (Meyer, 
Steere Hxp., McGregor, Whitehead) ; Mindanao (Everett, Steere Exp., Goodfellow, 
Celestino) ; Panaon (Hverett) ; Samar (Bourns é Worcester). 
Adult.—Top of head dark brown, shaft-lines seal-brown; rest of upper ~ 
parts dark olive-green, the shafts of the feathers darker; feathers of 
lower back long and thick-set, forming a bunch which covers the feathers 
of the rump; the long feathers with dark brown subterminal spots and 
some of the lateral ones tipped with white washed with pale yellow; 
rectrices brown, each with a subterminal blackish area and a distinct 
white tip; sides of head dark drab; chin and throat drab-gray; breast 
ashy brown, this color, faintly washed with olivaceous, extends onto 
sides of neck and breast and onto flanks; rest of under parts white with 
some streaks of pale yellow on breast; axillars and wing-lining white, 
washed with light yellow. Ivis gray; eyelids lemon-yellow; bill and 
feet black. Length, about 185. A male from Luzon measures: Wing, 
80; tail, 75; culmen from base, 15; bill from nostril, 9; tarsus, 16. A 
male from Bohol, wing, 78; tail, 73; culmen from base, 15; bill from 
nostril, 9; tarsus, 17. A male from Basilan, wing, 80; tail, 80; culmen 
from base, 17; bill from nostril, 10.5 tarsus, 17. 
In specimens from Basilan the bill is slightly longer and the white — 
spots on the rectrices occupy more space than in specimens from Luzon. 
“The wattled bulbul is fairly common about fruit trees in the forest 
