PYRRHULA. 677 
691. LOXIA LUZONIENSIS Grant. 
PHILIPPINE CROSSBILL. 
Lowxia luzoniensis GRANT, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club (1894), 3, 51; Ibis (1894), 
» 516; GRANT and WHITEHEAD, Ibis (1898), 244 (eggs); WHITEHEAD, 
Ibis (1899), 239 (nesting habits); McGrecor and WorcrEsTER, Hand- 
List (1906), 103. 
Cu-di-li-guit, Benguet Igorot. 
Luzon (Whitehead, Worcester, McGregor). 
Adult male——Head and body geranium-red, clearest and brightest on 
rump, tail-coverts, and under parts, more pinkish on throat, paler on 
abdomen; lores, malar stripe, and ear-coverts dusky; feathers of back 
and wing-coverts with dusky bases; thighs drab-gray; under tail-coverts 
white, washed with geranium-pink, and with pointed shaft-markings of 
dark brown; wings and tail blackish, the larger feathers narrowly edged 
with geranium-pink. Length, about 140: wing, 82: tail. 51; culmen 
from base, 15; tarsus, 15. 
Adult female.——Feathers of upper parts dark brown with lighter edges ; 
feathers of back edged with pale yellow; feathers on anterior part of 
crown edged with light chrome-yellow; rump and tail-feathers nearly 
uniform light chrome-yellow; nasal plumes, lores, and line under eye 
whitish ; cheeks and ear-coverts blackish brown; under parts drab-gray, 
chin and throat nearly white; breast and abdomen with a faint olive 
or yellow wash; tail-coverts white with pointed shaft-markings; wing- 
feathers and rectrices blackish with narrow edges of gray or pale yellow. 
A female, wing, 80; tail, 49; culmen from base, 16; tarsus, 15. 
Young birds are dingy white heavily streaked, both above and below, 
with blackish brown and more or less washed with olive-gray, olive-yellow, 
or light chrome-yellow. Older individuals, probably of the second sum- 
mer, lose the dark streaks and become extensively yellow, while still 
older males become indiscriminately mottled with red and yellow. 
“In the end of December, 1893, Mr. Whitehead noticed a pair of 
these crossbills with nesting materials in their bills. In the following 
January, while in the highlands of Benguet, he found a nest containing 
three eggs and situated at the end of a pine branch. The slender branch 
overhung a steep slope, and it was found impossible to secure the eggs. 
Again on Mount Data, towards the end of January, 1895, after much 
trouble, a second nest was discovered near the top of a high pine-tree. 
This nest contained four young birds, two of which flew away before they 
could be secured.” (Grant and Whitehead.) 
Genus PYRRHULA Brisson, 1760. 
Bill very short, stout, and blunt; bill from nostril equal to its width, 
and to its depth at middle of nostril; culmen and gonys decidedly curved ; 
tail nearly square. General color of body buffy brown; chin black; 
rump white. 
