638 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 
646. PRIONOCHILUS JOHANNZ€ Sharpe. 
PALAWAN FLOWERPECKER, 
Prionochilus johanne Suarrw@@™is (1888), 201, pl. 4, fig. 1; McGrecor 
and WoRCcESTER, Hand-List (1906), 97. 
Balabac (Everett); Calamianes (Bourns & Worcester); Palawan (Steere, 
Everett, Whitehead, Platen, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, McGregor, Celes- 
tino, White). . - 
* Male.—Upper parts slate-blue; center of crown scarlet; rump lemon- 
yellow; wing-feathers and rectrices black, edged with slate-blue; lores 
black; sides of head, of neck, and of breast slate-blue; a white included 
line on jaw; under parts rich lemon-yellow, fading to white on thighs and 
crissum ; a scarlet patch on center of chest; axillars, wing-lining, edge of 
wing, and inner webs of quills white. A male measures: Wing, 52; tail, 
25; culmen from base, 12; bill from nostril, 7.5; greatest width of upper 
mandible, 6; tarsus, 14. 
Female.—Upper parts including exposed edges of wing-feathers and 
rectrices olivaceous; band on tail-coverts lemon-yellow; center of crown 
with a dull yellow patch; sides of head and neck gray, washed with 
olivaceous ; jaw with an obscure cinereous streak; chin and throat white, 
washed with yellow; breast and abdomen lemon-yellow, lighter posteriorly ; 
sides and flanks gray, washed with greenish yellow; crissum white. Wing, 
48; tail, 24; culmen from base, 11; bill from nostril, 7; tarsus, 14. 
“Abundant both in Palawan and the Calamianes Islands. Found about 
fruit trees in or near the woods. Eleven males average: Length, 93; 
wing, 53; tail, 28; culmen, 12.7; tarsus, 13.7; middle toe with claw, 
13.7. Ten females, length, 92; wing, 50; tail, 26; tarsus, 13.4; middle 
toe with claw, 14; culmen, 13. Specimens from the Calamianes average 
very slightly smaller. Legs, feet, and nails black; bill black except base | 
of lower mandible, which is yellow or gray.” (Bourns and Worcester 
MS.) 
647. PRIONOCHILUS QUADRICOLOR Tweeddale. 
FOUR-COLORED FLOWERPECKER. 
Prionochilus quadricolor TWEEDDALE, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1877), 762, pl. 77, 
fig. 2; Suarpr, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1885), 10, 70; Bourns and 
WoRCESTER, Minnesota Acad. Nat. Sci. Occ. Papers (1894), 1, 57 (de- 
scription of female and young) ; McGrecor, Phil. Jour. Sei. (1907), 2, 
see. A, 308. 
Prionochilus quidricolor McGREGoR and WoRcESTER, Hand-List (1906), 97 
(error). 
Cebu (Everett, Bourns & Worcester, McGregor). 
Male.—A large triangular mantle-patch scarlet-vermilion, the black 
bases of the feathers showing somewhat; lower back ochraceous tinged 
with green; remainder of upper parts, including sides of head and neck, 
