678 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 
Species. 
a. Darger ;\ “wing, 730) mmm.) OF pn ORC ya ae seses ae aeeeee nee seer eee ene leucogenys (p. 678) 
a?, Smaller; wing less than 80 mmyggeneral color more brownish. 
- steerei (p. 678) 
692. PYRRHULA LEUCOGENYS Grant. 
PHILIPPINE BULLFINCH, 
Pyrrhula leucogenys Grant, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club (1895), 4, 41; Ibis 
(1895), 455, pl. 14 (lewcogenis) ; WHITEHEAD, Ibis (1899), 239 (feed- 
ing habits and young) ; McGrecor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 
103. 
Luzon (Whitehead, Mearns, McGregor). 
Adult male.—Forehead, entire top of head, upper tail-coverts, rec- 
trices, and secondaries glossy steel-blue; lores, jaw, and chin black; 
cheeks and auriculars white, forming a large patch; back olive-brown ; 
under parts lighter brown; middle of abdomen and under tail-coverts 
light ochraceous-brown ; rump-band white; primaries black, edged with 
steel-blue ; innermost secondary edged with orange-vermilion on the outer 
web; greater coverts widely tipped with light buff; axillars and wing- 
lining white. Iris dark brown; bill white or pale yellow, black at tip 
and along the cutting edges; legs pale flesh-color. Length, about 160; 
wing, 78; tail, 61; depth of fork, 12; bill from nostril, 9; tarsus, 16.5. 
Adult female.—Like the male, except that the red on the innermost 
secondary is brownish orange. ‘The difference is very slight and my 
specimens have no red whatever on the secondary. A female from Pauai, 
Mountain Province, Luzon, measures: Wing, 79; tail, 65; bill from 
nostril, 10; tarsus, 16. 
An immature, but fully grown, male differs from the adult in having 
the crown brown, but somewhat darker than the back and with a few 
black feathers; lores and jaw dusky; white cheek-patch small and poorly 
defined; chin dusky; throat and breast slightly olivaceous. 
This bullfinch is not uncommon in the mossy oak forests of the high- 
lands of Luzon. 
693. PYRRHULA STEEREI Mearns. 
STEERE’S BULLFINCH. 
Pyrrhula steerei MEARNS, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. (1909), 36, 445. 
Mindanao (Mearns). 
“Characters.—Similar to Pyrrhula leucogenys Grant, from the moun- 
tains of Lepanto in northern Luzon. The Mindanao bird differs in 
being smaller, with a differently colored, much smaller bill, more brown- 
ish coloration, and a tendency to whitening on the middle of the abdomen, 
which the Luzon bird lacks. 
“Adult male (type, killed July 9).—Crown and front of head all 
round, to just behind eye, black; crown glossed with purplish blue; lores, 
malar region, chin, and upper throat dead black; auriculars white; 
