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bill from nostril, 9; tarsus, 22. A female, wing, 62; tail, 60; culmen 
from base, 13; bill from nostril, 8; tarsus, 22. Exposed portion of first 
primary little more than one- “half gjpsecond fourth and fifth equal and 
longest. 
In the Philippine Islands the little bush warbler is Eaows only as a 
winter visitant to Calayan Island. 
573. HORORNIS SEEBOHMI (Grant). 
PHILIPPINE BUSH WARBLER, 
Cettia seebohmi GRANT, Ibis (1894), 507; Wuirenrap, Ibis (1899), 211 
(habits, note). 
Horornis seebohmi SHARPE, Hand-List (1903), 4, 236, McGrecor and Wor- 
CESTER, Hand-List (1906), 90. 
Luzon (Whitehead, McGregor). 
Adult.—Above dusky wood-brown, slightly olivaceous on the back and 
more russet-brown on the rump, tail-coverts, and margins of the rectrices ; 
wings brown, the quills edged with russet; the first three primaries, 
however, fringed with much lighter brown; wing-coverts olivaceous; 
eyelids and eye-stripe whitish or pale buff; a dusky spot before and behind 
eye; under parts whitish ; sides of neck and breast washed with olivaceous ; 
flanks and crissum yellowish buff; thighs brown. Iris light brown; upper 
mandible dusky, lower mandible, legs, and nails flesh-color. Length, 
about 140. Male, wing, 55; tail, 63; culmen from base, 15; bill from 
nostril, 9; tarsus, 24. Female, wing, 52; tail, 60; culmen from base, 14; 
bill from nostril, 8; tarsus, 23. 
Although this species resembles H. minutus both in size and color, it 
might be placed in another genus. The tail is decidedly longer than the 
wing, the latter rounded and weak; the first primary is equal to two- 
thirds of second and one-half of third; the fifth and sixth are nearly 
equal and longest. The plumage is somewhat decomposed and is less 
compact than in H. minutus. 
Genus PHYLLERGATES Sharpe, 1883. 
In size and superficial appearance Phyllergates resembles Orthotomus, 
but the two genera are really very distinct. In Phyllergates the bill is 
much wider and more depressed at the base, and blunter at the tip; the 
rictal bristles are slightly longer; the wing is longer; the tarsus and feet 
are more slender; the rectrices are much wider, nearly uniform in length, 
except the short outermost pair, and but ten in number. 
Species. 
ai, Chin avid. dhiroah whith a. ek ok ee te philippinus (p. 589) 
oe) Chin jand\-throar (cimiamor 22s ee ae eee, eee eee eee heterolemus (p. 589) 
