662 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 
Subfamily ARACHNOTHERIN 2. 
Genus ARACHNOTHERA Temminck, 1826. 
Bill twice as long as head and much curved ; nasal opercles unfeathered ; 
wing moderate in length; first primary equal to about one-half the 
second; tail nearly square. Colors olive-green, gray, and yellow, no 
metallic feathers. Members of this genus are easily recognized by their 
very long bills. 
Species. 
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a’. Forehead, cheeks, ear-coverts, and gape-region feathered. 
bY. Smaller; exposed culmen, about 30 mm.; crissum lemon-yellow. 
flammifera (p. 662) 
b°. Larger; exposed culmen, about 35 mm.; crissum pale gray. 
dilutior (p. 663) 
a*, Forehead, cheeks, ear-coverts, and gape-region naked.. philippinensis (p. 663) 
677. ARACHNOTHERA FLAMMIFERA Tweeddale. . 
FLAME-TUFTED SPIDER HUNTER, 
Arachnothera flammifera TWEEDDALE, Proe. Zool. Soe. (1878), 343; SHELLEY, 
Monogr. Nectarin. pts. 9 & 10 (1879), 361, pl. 115; Gapow, Cat. Birds 
Brit. Mus. (1884), 9, 104;. WHITEHEAD, Ibis (1899), 230; McGrecor 
and WorcESTER, Hand-List (1906), 100. 
Basilan (Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, Celestino); Bohol (McGregor) ; 
Leyte (Hverett, Steere Exp., Whitehead) ; Mindanao (Platen, Celestino) ; Samar 
(Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, Whitehead) . . 
Male.—Above olive-green, the bases of the crown-feathers dark brown ; 
chin, throat, and breast light gray, washed with pale olive-green ; abdomen,- 
flanks, and crissum bright lemon-yellow ; thighs gray, washed with yellow ; 
a small tuft of feathers on each side of breast cadmium-yellow; wing- 
feathers blackish brown edged with olive-green; rectrices blackish, edged 
with olive-green and, except the middle pair, tipped with white and 
gray ; axillars and wing-lining slightly washed with pale yellow. A male 
from Basilan measures: Length, 152; wing, 64; tail, 43; culmen from 
base, 35; bill from nostril, 28; tarsus, 15. 
Female.—Slightly smaller than the male and without the yellow pec- 
toral tufts. A female from Basilan measures: Wing, 59; tail, 38; cul- 
men from base, 32; bill from nostril, 26; tarsus, 15. 
“Four males average: Length, 141; wing, 62; tail, 45; culmen, 34; 
tarsus, 15; middle toe with claw, 16. A female, length, 148; wing, 62; 
tail, 41; culmen, 41; tarsus, 16; middle toe with claw, 16. Iris reddish 
brown; legs and feet slate-blue; upper mandible black, lower black at 
tip, gray at base.” (Bourns and Worcester MS.) 
