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CISTICOLA. 581 
in trees and singing. Four females from Mindanao measure: Length, 
105; wing, 46; tail, 38; culmen, 12; tarsus, 19; middle toe with claw, 
17. Legs, feet, and nails pale reddish brown; upper mandible nearly 
black, lower pale at tip, black at base.” (Bourns and Worcester MS.) 
565. CISTICOLA EXILIS (Vigors and Horsfield). 
GOLDEN-HEADED CISTICOLA, 
Malurus exilis Vicors and Hors¥IELD, Trans. Linn. Soe. (1825), 15, 223. 
Cisticola exilis SHARPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1883), 7, 269; Hand-List 
(1903), 4, 198; WuitEHEAD, Ibis (1899), 221 (habits) ; OATES and 
Rew, Cat. Birds’ Eggs (1905), 4, 194; McGrrcor and WORCESTER, 
Hand-List (1906), 89. 
Pi-rot, Bohol, Siquijor ; pi-pit co-gon, Manila. 
Bantayan (McGregor) ; Bohol (McGregor) ; Calamianes (Bourns & Worces- 
ter) ; Caluya (Porter) ; Cebu (Bourns & Worcester, McGregor) ; Leyte (Bartsch) ; 
Lubang (McGregor) ; Luzon (Steere Ezp., Whitehead, McGregor) ; Marinduque 
(Steere Exp.) ; Masbate (Bourns & Worcester) ; Mindanao (Hverett, Bourns & 
Worcester) ; Mindoro (Bourns & Worcester, McGregor) ; Negros (Hverett, Bourns 
& Worcester); Panay (Bourns & Worcester) ; Romblon (Bourns & Worcester) ; 
Samar (Bourns & Worcester) ; Semirara (McGregor & Worcester); Sibay (Mc- 
Gregor & Worcester) ; Sibuyan (Bourns & Worcester) ; Siquijor (Bourns ¢& Wor- 
cester, Celestino) ; Sulu (Guillemard, Bourns & Worcester) ; Tablas (Bourns & 
Worcester); Ticao (McGregor) ; Verde (McGregor). Southern China, India 
Peninsula, Burmese provinces, Malay Peninsula and Archipelago, Australia, 
Formosa. 
Adult male (May to August).—Top of head golden buff becoming 
dusky on hind neck; back ashy gray heavily streaked with black; lower 
back, rump, and tail-coverts dark tawny buff; under parts heavily washed 
with tawny buff, most heavily on sides and thighs; middle of breast and 
thighs lighter and nearly white; wing-feathers blackish brown, more or 
less edged with ashy gray or rusty buff; tail blackish, tipped with dark 
buff. A male from Bohol measures: Wing, 42; tail, 31; culmen from 
base, 10; bill from nostril, 6; tarsus, 29. 
Female.—Similar to the male, but top of head fulvous-brown, heavily 
streaked with black. 
Male in non-brecding plumage resembles the female, having a streaked 
crown and the under parts mostly white. 
Young. in first plumage, resemble the adult in non-breeding plumage, 
butthe under parts, especially the face, throat, and breast, are washed 
with pale lemon-yellow. 
“Three males from Sulu measure: Length, 90; wing, 40.6; tail, 35.5; 
culmen, 11.6; tarsus, 17; middle toe with claw, 14. Two females, length, 
97; wing, 40; tail, 36.5; culmen, 12; tarsus, 18; middle toe with claw, 
15.” (Bourns and Worcester MS.) 
