612 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 
Genus RHABDORNIS Reichenbach, 1853. 
Characters the same as those given for the Family. Upper parts brown 
or gray, and black, streaked with White; under parts white, sides streaked 
with brown or black. 
Species. 
a’. Head and nape heavily streaked with white. 
b*. Bill longer, about 16 mm. from nostril; upper parts grayer. 
" mystacalis (p. 612) 
6*. Bill shorter, about 14 mm. from nostril; upper parts browner. 
minor (p. 612) 
a’, Head and nape uniform dull brown or else dark gray.......... inornatus (p. 613) 
603. RHABDORNIS MYSTACALIS (Temminck). 
PHILIPPINE CREEPER, 
Meliphaga mystacalis TEMMINCK, Pl. Col. (1825), pl. 335, fig. 2. 
Climacieris mystacalis Gapow, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1883), 8, 339. 
Rhabdornis mystacalis SuHarpeE, Hand-List (1903), 4, 356; WwuITEHEAD, 
Ibis (1899), 226 (habits, anatomy) ; McGrecor and WorcEsTER, Hand- 
List (1906), 95. 
Luzon (Meyer, Méllendorff, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, Whitehead, 
McGregor) ; Masbate (Bourns & Worcester) ; Negros (Bourns & Worcester, White- 
head, Celestino) ; Panay (Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester). 
Male.—Top of head and hind neck with broad white shaft-streaks ; 
back and rump drab-gray, the shafts of the feathers white; wings lke 
the back; primaries, secondaries, and rectrices blackish brown; inner 
webs of wing-quills edged with light buff; stripe under eye, on ear- 
coverts, and on side of neck black; under parts white; feathers of sides, 
flanks, and crissum bordered with black, producing a streaked appearance ; 
under wing-coverts and axillars pale buff. Length, about 155. A male 
from Bataan Province, Luzon, measures: Wing, 82; tail, 49; culmen 
from base, 24; bill from nostril, 17; tarsus, 18. 
Female.—Top of head, nape, and ear-coverts brown. 
“This creeper feeds in deep woods, but is more common in second 
growth; it is nowhere very abundant. Very variable in size and in 
length of bill. Three males average as follows: Culmen, 26; wing, 80; 
tail, 23; tarsus, 20; middle toe with claw, 20.5. A female, length, 149; 
wing, 80; tail, 49; culmen, 23; tarsus, 18; middle toe with claw, 19.5. 
Bill, legs, and feet black.” (Bourns and Worcester MS.) 
604. RHABDORNIS MINOR Grant. 
LESSER CREEPER, 
Rhabdornis minor GRANT, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club (1896), 6, 17; Ibis (1897), 
234; WHITEHEAD, Ibis (1899), 227 (habits); Suarpe, Hand-List 
(1903), 4, 356; McGrecor and WorcESTER, Hand-List (1906), 95. 
Basilan (Celestino); Bohol (McGregor); Dinagat (Everett) ; Leyte (Steere 
Exp, Whitehead); Mindanao (Everett, Celestino); Samar (Whitehead, Bourns 
¢& Worcester). 
