ORTHOTOMUS. Sis 
e*,. Chestnut of forehead not sharply defined, but merging into dull 
Olive: oT ary SOM CVO Wiles: fe ectes ease 12 cle el ls ee seal mearnsi (p. 574) 
d’, Chestnut of head covering the entire forehead, crown, and occiput. 
chloronotus (p. 575) 
ce. Back gray. 
@. Outer webs of rectrices Green s-...--.-.2.-----------ceecenenees castaneiceps (p. 574) 
d*. Outer webs of rectrices dull chestnut, gray basally. 
e’. Wing-feathers edged with green; throat and breast white, streaked 
CNOL) I a Co meee = econo derbianus (p. 575) 
e?. Wing-feathers edged with gray; throat and breast white. 
ruficeps (p. 576) 
67. Chin and ear-coverts, as well as forehead and crown, cinnamon-rufous. 
cineraceous (p. 576) 
a’, Top of head smoky gray or black; throat black in the adult. 
b*. Thighs green; middle of breast and of abdomen black or smoky gray. 
ce’. Ear-coverts white forming a conspicuous patch; top of head dark smoky 
FAT coe eee be ert a ar eH P a Caetano oe ee cinereiceps (p. 577) 
ce. Ear-coverts black; top of head black; eyebrow and eye-circle white. 
nigriceps (p. 578) 
b*. Thighs chestnut; entire breast and abdomen bright yellow. 
samarensis (p. 578) 
554. ORTHOTOMUS FRONTALIS Sharpe. 
SHARPE’S TAILORBIRD. 
Orthotomus frontalis SHARPE, Ibis (1877), 112, pl. 2, fig. 1; Trans. Linn. 
Soc. 2d ser. Zool. (1877), 1, 336 (part) ; Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1883), 
7, 220 (part); Hand-List (1903), 4, 192 (part); WHITEHEAD, Ibis 
(1899), 219 (habits); McGrecor and WorcESsTER, Hand-List (1906), 
88 (part). 
Bohol (Everett, McGregor); Dinagat (Hverett); Leyte (Steere Hxup., White- 
head) ; Mindanao (Steere, Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, Goodfellow, 
Celestino, Clemens, Bartsch) ; Samar (Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, White- 
head). 
Adult.—Forehead, lores, and ring around eye rufous-chestnut, sharply 
defined against the ashy gray crown; ear-coverts, sides of neck, and 
hind neck ashy gray like the crown; back, rump, tail-coverts, and edges 
of wing-feathers and of rectrices bright olive-green, the last with a 
dusky subterminal band; under parts white, more or less streaked with 
cinereous on throat and breast; sides ashy; flanks and under tail-coverts 
washed with light yellowish green; thighs chestnut. Length, about 115. 
A male from northern Mindanao measures: Wing, 44; tail, 35; culmen 
from base, 15; bill from nostril, 11; tarsus, 19. A female from Bohol, 
wing, 41; tail, 34; culmen from base, 16; bill from nostril, 11; tarsus, 19. 
Specimens in fresh plumage have the occiput more or less washed 
with green; the dusky spots at end of tail are variable. 
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