514 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 
Genus TRICHOPHORUS Temminck, 1821. - 
This genus resembles Jrena iygyaving long nuchal hairs and a rather 
short, slightly compressed, bill, But in 7'richophorus the nostrils are ex- 
posed and the wings are relatively short and rounded, the primaries 
exceeding the secondaries by about the length of tarsus; head slightly 
crested ; the colors are olive-yellow, ight yellow, brown, and gray. 
Species. 
a, Chin and throat clear gray; much larger; wing, more than 95 mm. 
frater (p. 514) 
a, Chin and throat gray, streaked with yellow; much smaller; wing, less than 
QO. ynan | 2e Pe e  e Ee Ny eee ee cane Re cre ee ee palawanensis (p. 515) 
490. TRICHOPHORUS FRATER (Sharpe). 
GRAY-THROATED HAIRY BULBUL. 
Criniger frater SHARPE, Trans. Linn. Soe. 2d. ser. Zool. (1877), 1, 334; 
Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1881), 6, 79, pl. 5; Hand-List (1901), 3, 317; 
McGregor and WorcEsTER, Hand-List (1906), 80. 
Trichophorus frater OBERHOLSER, Smiths. Mise. Colls. (1905), 48, 152. 
Balabae (Steere Exp., Everett) ; Calamianes (Bourns & Worcester) ; Palawan 
(Steere Everett, Whitehead, Platen, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, Celestino, 
White). 
Adult.—Top of head dark tan-brown; back and rump olive-green ; 
upper tail-coverts and rectrices tan-brown, edged with tawny olive ; lores, 
sides of face, a narrow supercilium, and ear-coverts light gray, the last 
streaked with white; chin, throat, and breast clear light gray with white 
shaft-lines; feathers of breast edged with yellow; rest of under parts 
yellow, darker on crissum and slightly olivaceous on sides and flanks; 
wings brown, quills edged with ruddy olive on outer webs and with 
ocherous-white on inner webs: axillars and wing-lining pale yellow. 
Sexes similar in colors. Length, about 230. A male measures: Wing, 
108; tail, 97; culmen from base, 23; bill from nostril, 14; tarsus, 22. 
A female, wing, 100; tail, 92; culmen from base, 21; bill from nostril, 
13; tarsus, 20. 
“This bulbul is very common and feeds always in the woods, so far 
as our observation goes. Four males average: Length, 213; wing, 104; 
tail, 92; culmen, 23; tarsus, 19; middle toe with claw, 21. <A female, 
length, 209; wing, 100; tail, 88; culmen, 23; tarsus, 20: middle toe 
