516 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 
492. PYCNONOTUS GOIAVIER (Scopoli). 
GUAVA BULBUL, 
Muscicapa goiavier Scopout, Del” Flor. et Faun. Insubr. (1786), 2, 96. 
Pycnonotus goiavier SHARPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1881), 6, 141; Hand- 
List (1901), 3, 330; Grant and WHITEHEAD, Ibis (1898), 239; WHITE- 
HEAD, Ibis (1899), 215; OarTes and Rem, Cat. Birds’ Eggs (1903), 
3, 316; McGrecor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 80. ; 
Pycnonotus goiavier suluensis MEARNS, Proc.’ U. 8. Nat. Mus. (1909), 36, 
470 (Sulu, Mindanao, and Basilan) .* 
Pé-la-go, Ticao; this name also used for Jole. Luc-lac, Manila; cul-cul, in 
general. ' 
Basilan (Hverett, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, McGregor) ; Bohol (Everett, 
Steere Exp., McGregor); Caluya (Porter) ; Cebu (Steere Exp., Bourns & Worces- 
ter, McGregor); Guimaras (Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester); Leyte (Hverett, 
Whitehead, Bartsch) ; Libagao (Porter); Luzon (Meyer, Méllendorff, Everett, 
Bourns & Worcester, Whitehead, McGregor, Bartsch) ; Marinduque (Steere Exp.) ; 
Masbate (Bourns & Worcester, McGregor); Mindanao (Jurray, Everett, Koch & 
Schadenberg, Goodfellow, Celestino) ; Mindoro (Steere Hxp., Schmacker, Bourns 
& Worcester, McGregor); Negros (Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, 
Keay); Nipa (Hverett); Panay (Bourns & Worcester); Romblon (McGregor) ; 
Samar (Bourns & Worcester, Whitehead) ; Sulu (Guillemard, Bourns & Worcester, 
Bartsch) ; Tablas (Bouwrns & Worcester, Celestino); Ticao (McGregor); Verde 
(McGregor). 
Adult—Middle of forehead and crown seal-brown, bordered on each 
side by a band of white extending from base of bill over eyes to sides of 
occiput; lores and a ring around eye black; above including wings and 
tail dark brown, the feathers frmged with earthy or ocherous brown; 
ear-coverts brown; spot below eye, jaw, and most of the under parts. 
white; breast and sides with distinct brown shaft-streaks; flanks and 
thighs brown; abdomen washed with pale yellow; crissum lemon-yellow ; 
axillars and wing-lining white, washed with yellow. Sexes similar in 
color. A male from Mindanao measures:’ Wing, 76; tail, 73; culmen 
from base, 17; bill from nostril, 9.5; tarsus, 20. A female from Basilan, 
wing, 78; tail, 77; culmen from base, 18; bill from nostril, 10; tarsus, 20. 
“The guava bulbul is one of the commonest of Philippine birds; it is 
called ‘ceul-cul’ by the natives. Very abundant about fruit trees and 
bushes in the open fields, and in scrub and second growth; much rarer 
in deep forest. Four male birds average: Length, 189; wing, 84; tail, 
84; culmen, 19; tarsus, 20; middle toe with claw, 21. Iris dark brown; 
bill, legs,and feet black ; one specimen had been eating insects.’ (Bourns 
and Worcester MS.) 
* Mearns gives the following characters for this-subspecies: “Similar to the 
Luzon guava bulbul (Pycnonotus goiavier goiavier), but smaller, with relatively 
shorter tail, broader supraorbital white stripes, and a paler auricular patch.” 
The comparative measurements given by Mearns are not convincing and I am not 
prepared to admit the validity of this subspecies. 
.] 
