ANUROPSIS. 525 
Genus ANUROPSIS Sharpe, 1883. 
Bill from nostril less than one-half the tarsus; nostril with an over- 
hanging membrane; rictal bristles weak, the longest less than bill from 
nostril; wing very short and rounded; tail very short and soft, not more 
than one-half the wing; legs and feet very large, when outstretched 
extending well beyond the end of tail; tarsus about equal to tail; body 
plumage soft and decomposed. 
503. ANUROPSIS CINEREICEPS (Tweeddale). 
ASHY-HEADED WOOD BABBLER, 
Drymocataphus cinereiceps TWEEDDALE, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1878), 617. 
Anuropsis cinereiceps SHARPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1883), 7, 590; 
Hand-List (1903), 4, 41; McGrecor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 
81. 
Balabae (Everett); Palawan (Everett, Lempriere, Whitehead, Platen, Bourns 
& Worcester, Celestino). 
Male.—Top of head and hind neck ashy gray, lighter on lores and 
ear-coverts ; remainder of upper parts fulvous-brown, more rusty on outer 
webs of primaries and secondaries: chin, throat, and middle of breast and 
abdomen white; sides of breast, flanks, thighs, and crissum light tan or 
ocherous-brown, extending faintly across fore-breast. Length, 114; 
wing, 61; tail, 30; culmen from base, 18; bill from nostril, 11; tarsus, 27. 
“Adult female-—(Puerto Princesa, Palawan, January, 1878; A. Ever- 
ett; type of species). General color above dark fulvous-brown, with 
faintly indicated pale shaft-stripes to the feathers of the mantle; the 
plumage of the lower back and rump very full and lax, with dusky or 
silvery gray bases; lesser and median wing-coverts like the back, with 
the same pale shaft-lines; greater series dark fulvous-brown; quills dark 
brown internally, externally dark fulvous-brown, somewhat ashy on the 
outer webs of the primaries; tail-feathers dark fulvous-brown; crown of 
head dark ashy gray, the hind neck and sides of neck lighter ashy gray ; 
lores and feathers round the eye ashy whitish; ear-coverts light ashy gray 
with whitish shaft-lines; cheeks white, with a narrow line of black along 
their upper margin; entire throat pure white, as also the entire abdomen ; 
breast and sides of the body, thighs, and under tail-coverts light fulvous- 
brown, with paler shaft-lines on the feathers of the breast ; axillars fulvous 
with white bases; under wing-coverts fulvous; quills dusky brown below, 
ashy fulvous along the edge of the inner web. ‘Bill brownish gray, the 
mandible white; legs pallid, the front of the tarsi tinged brown; irs 
burnt sienna-orange.’ (A. H. Everett.) Length, 144; culmen, 18; wing. 
60; tail, 27; tarsus, 28. (Mus. R. G. Wardlaw-Ramsay).” (Sharpe.) 
“Rare in the region collected in by us; a single male obtained. It 
measures: Length, 127; wing, 61; tail, 27; culmen, 20; tarsus, 27; 
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