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with claw, 22. Iris reddish to chocolate-brown; legs, feet, and nails very 
light brown; bill brown.” (Bourns and Worcester MS.) 
491. TRICHOPHORUS PALAWANENSIS (Tweeddale). 
PALAWAN HAIRY BULBUL, 
Criniger palawanensis TWEEDDALE, Proc. Zool. Soe. (1878), 618; SHARPE, 
Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1881), 6, 83, pl. 6, fig. 2; Hand-List (1901), 
3, 318; McGrecor and WorcestTER, Hand-List (1906), SO. 
Trichophorus palawanensis OBERHOLSER, Smiths. Mise. Colls. (1905), 48, 152. 
Palawan (Steere, Whitehead, Platen, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, Ce- 
lestino). 
Adult.—Above scarcely different from 7’. frater, except that the 
feathers on top of head have light shaft-lmnes; ear-coverts olive-green 
with whitish shaft-lines; lores white, mixed with olive-green; cheeks, 
chin, throat, and breast pale yellow, streaked with white; rest of under 
parts pale lemon-yellow, olivaceous along the sides and flanks; crissum 
light ocherous-yellow. The sexes are similar; length, about 190. A 
male measures: Wing, 82; tail, 76; culmen from base, 18; bill from 
nostril, 12; tarsus, 18. A female, wing, 81; tail, 72; culmen from base, 
18; bill from nostril, 12; tarsus, 18. 
“Common in Palawan; feeds about bushes in the open, frequently in 
good sized flocks. Four males measure: Length, 185; wing, 84; tail, 
73; culmen, 20; tarsus, 17; middle toe with claw, 18. Three females, 
length, 174; wing, 81; tail, 74; culmen, 19.8; tarsus, 17; middle toe 
with claw, 18. Eyes usually straw-yellow; in one case light hazel ; legs, 
feet, and nails ight brown; upper mandible nearly black, lower gray.” 
(Bourns and Worcester MS.) 
Genus PYCNONOTUS Boie, 1826. 
Bill short, when measured from base, less than tarsus; rictal bristles 
usually less than bill from nostril; wing short and rounded; the prima- 
ries exceed secondaries by less than length of tarsus; a short crest which 
is not very evident in dry skins. 
Species. 
a, Legs and feet black; supercilium white, contrasting with the black lores; 
au COVETUGM DEO Wiley ences mee oni wae en Lae ee goiavier (p. 516) 
a’. Legs and feet light brown; supercilium and lores dull olive-brown like the 
crown; ear-coverts with white shaft-lines............0..........- cinereifrons (p. 517) 
