580 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 
564. CISTICOLA CISTICOLA (Temminck). 
TEMMINCK’S CISTICOLA. 
Sylvia cisticola TEMMINCK, Maf. d’Orn. (1820), 1, 228. 
Cisticola cisticola SHARPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1883), 7, 259; Hand-List 
(1903), 4, 197; WirEHEApD, Ibis (1899), 221 (habits); Oates and 
REID, Cat. Birds’ Eggs (1905), 4, 191; McGrecor and WoRrcESTER, 
Hand-List (1906), 89. 
Gug-nds, Batan; Tic-tic-ru-bo, Calayan. 
Batan (McGregor); Bohol (Everett); Calayan (McGregor); Camiguin N. 
(McGregor) ; Fuga (McGregor) ; Luzon (Heriot, Steere Exp., Whitehead, Bartsch) ; 
Mindanao (Bourns & Worcester) ; Sulu (Bartsch). Indian and Malay Peninsulas, 
southern Europe, Indo-Chinese countries, Greater and Lesser Sunda Islands, 
Ceylon, China, Africa, Celebes. : 
Male, in worn plumage (Batan Island, June).—Above earthy brown; 
head and neck nearly uniform, much faded; feathers of back and tail- 
coverts with wide blackish brown centers; lores and superciliary line 
white; cheeks, ear-coverts, and under parts white; flanks and thighs 
ocherous-buff ; wing-feathers dark or blackish brown with whitish edges; 
rectrices dark brown basally, followed by a wide ocherous-buff space, 
subterminal band blackish brown, wide tip white. Wing, 53; tail, 40; 
culmen from base, 12; bill from nostril, 8; tarsus, 23. 
Male and female in fresh plumage (Calayan Island, November) — 
Similar to the male described, but feathers on head blackish brown, edged 
with buff; neck, rump, and edges of dorsal feathers dark buff, more 
rusty buff on rump; edges of wing-feathers wider and more rusty than 
in the worn plumage; middle pair of rectrices dark buff with blackish 
shaft-streaks, the shafts light; outermost pair of rectrices with outer 
webs and wide tips white, the greater part of inner webs blackish; 
remaining rectrices with wide white tips and subterminal black bands. 
the latter fading into dark brown toward base of tail; under part of 
body white; breast and crissum washed with buff; flanks and thighs 
rusty buff. Male; wing, 56; tail, 53; culmen from base, 11; bill from 
nostril, 7; tarsus, 22. Female, wing, 48; tail, 46; culmen from base, 10; 
bill from nostril, 7; tarsus, 20. \ 
On the authority of Colonel Legge, Sharpe says that in the male the 
inside of the mouth is black, while in the female it is fleshy. 
“Common in the deep grass of the open fields. The habits of the 
various species of this genus found in the Philippines are practically 
the same. ‘They live in the grass, and when flushed fly in a curious, jerky 
way for a short distance, and then drop back into the grass where they 
instantly disappear. They sometimes perch on tall grass stems or low 
bushes, and make a series of noises more like the notes of some great 
grasshopper than those of a bird. We several times found them perched 
