640 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 
“Found in the forest and second growth. Never seen about open fields. 
Feeds on seeds and fruits. Breeding in Basilan in August. Four males 
from Basilan average: Length, @#® wing, 56; tail, 29; culmen, 12.7; 
tarsus, 12.9; middle toe with claw, 14.7. Iris brownish red; legs, feet, 
and nails brown to black; bill black except base of lower mandible, which 
is ashy gray.” (Bourns and Worcester MS.) 
649. PRIONOCHILUS BICOLOR Bourns and Worcester. 
BICOLORED FLOWERPECKER, 
Prionochilus bicolor BouRNS and WoRCESTER, Minnesota Acad. Nat. Sci. Oce. 
Papers (1894), 1, 20; McGrecor and WorcEsTER, Hand-List (1906), 97. 
Mindanao (Bourns & Worcester). 
“Adult male-—Entire upper surface deep black, with faint metallic 
. blue gloss; entire under surface, including under wing-coverts, axillars, 
and inner webs of quills, white; bases of feathers of breast, flanks, and 
abdomen slaty black. Bill, legs, and feet black; iris red. Length, 82.5; 
wing, 50; tail, 24; culmen, 10.6; tarsus, 14. Found in the hills of Ayala, 
near Zamboanga.” (Bourns and Worcester.) 
650. PRIONOCHILUS INEXPECTATUS Hartert. 
HARTERT’S FLOWERPECKER, 
Prionochilus ineapectatus Hartrert, Novit. Zool. (1895), 2, 64 and 486; 
GRANT, Ibis (1896), 533, (1897), 240; McGrecor and WORCESTER, 
. Hand-List (1906), 97. , 
Rrionochilus bicolor WuitEHEAD, Ibis (1899), 235. 
Bohol (McGregor); Leyte (Whitehead); Luzon (Hverett, Whitehead, Mc- 
Gregor); Mindoro (Bourns € Worcester, Everett, McGregor); Negros (White- 
head) ; Samar (Whitehead). 
Male.—Above glossy blue-black; breast, sides, and flanks cinereous; 
chin, throat, median line of breast and abdomen, crissum, wing-lining, 
axillars, and inner webs of quills white. Bill, legs, and nails black. A 
male from Mindoro measures: Length, 90; wing, 49; tail, 23; culmen 
from base, 9; bill from nostril, 6; greatest width of bill, 6; tarsus, 10. 
Female.—Above brown, washed with olive-green, brightest on rump, 
tail-coverts, and outer webs of secondaries; below similar to the male, 
but with a faint olivaceous wash. Wing, 51; tail, 25; culmen from base, 
9; bill from nostril, 5.5; tarsus, 13. 
“This recently-described species has now been met with in Samar and 
Leyte. It seems more than probable that it is not really distinct from 
P. bicolor Bourns and Worcester; but haying no typical specimens of the 
latter form from Mindanao, I can not be certain.” (Grant.) 
