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on abdomen; wings dark brown, edged with lighter brown; tail with 
an indistinct, dark subterminal band. 
“Adult male.—General color above clear ashy gray; the crown, sides of 
head, including the cheeks, ear-coverts, and chin bright cinnamon-rufous, 
the hinder crown and occiput gradually shading off into brown as they 
approach the hind neck; throat, neck, and under parts generally ashy 
gray; the center of the abdomen and under tail-coverts pure white ; 
thighs deep cinnamon-rufous; under wing-coverts washed with rufous, 
as also is the edge of the wing; lower surface of quills dark brown, 
edged along the inner web with rufous-white; wings above brown, some- 
what washed with olive and not so gray as the back, the primaries 
narrowly edged with whity brown; tail light brown, with paler brown 
margins, the outer feathers tipped with white, before which is a tolerably 
distinct subterminal bar of dark .brown; bill in skin light horn-brown, 
the under mandible paler and more yellowish. ‘Legs pale warm brown; 
iris naples-yellow.” (Hverett.) Length, 119; culmen, 14; wing, 47; 
tail, 44; tarsus, 19. 
“Female.—Differs from the adult male in being white below, without 
the gray throat, although indications of the latter are generally seen in the 
grayish shade more or less observable on the lower throat and sides of 
breast. The cinnamon-color of the chin is also difficult to trace, being 
so faintly pronounced. 
“Young.—General color above olive-brown; quills brown, externally 
washed with olive-green; tail brown, tipped obscurely with whity brown, 
with a subterminal shade of black, scarcely forming a spot; ear-coverts 
pale rufescent; under surface of body dull yellowish white, the thighs 
obscure fawn-color; center of the body pale yellowish, the sides of the 
breast and flanks, obscurely washed with greenish.” (Sharpe.) 
561. ORTHOTOMUS CINEREICEPS Sharpe. 
ASHY-HEADED TAILORBIRD, 
Orthotomus cinereiceps SHARPE, Ibis (1877), 113, pl. 2, fig. 2; Trans. Linn. 
Soc. 2d ser. Zool. (1877), 1, 337; Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1883), 7, 
222;'‘Hand-List (1903), 4, 192; McGrecor and WorcEstTER, Hand-List 
(1906), 88. 
Basilan (Steere, Everett, Steere Exp., Bowrns & Worcester, McGregor) ; Min- 
danao (Hverett, Steere Hxup., Bourns & Worcester). 
Adult.—Entire top of head, lores, and hind neck dark ashy gray; a 
large white patch on ear-coverts; remainder of upper parts olive-green, 
lighter on tail-coverts ; wing-feathers blackish, edged with green; rectrices 
olive-brown, edged with green; cheeks, chin, and throat black; fore 
breast ashy gray; center of lower breast and abdomen white; sides, 
flanks, thighs, and crissum washed with yellow. A male from Basilan 
measures: Wing, 47; tail, 55; culmen from base, 16.5; bill from nostril, 
11; tarsus, 21. 
