692 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 
Adult (sexes alike).—Above chocolate-brown, darkest on forehead and 
tail-coverts ; tertials, secondary-coverts, hind head, neck, back, and rump 
with distinct white shaft-linegggrectrices dark brown, edged with pale 
greenish yellow; lores blackish; sides of head and neck like back; under 
parts dark chocolate-brown, nearly black on chin and crissum ; lower 
breast and abdomen white, forming a large patch. Iris dark red-brown ; 
upper mandible black, lower mandible light horn-blue; legs and nails 
dark blue. Length, 110 to 120. A male from Camiguin Island meas- 
ures: Wing, 51; tail, 40; culmen from base, 12; tarsus, 12. A female 
from Palawan, wing, 50; tail, 37; culmen from base, 11; tarsus, 12. 
Young.—An immature male has the color pattern like the adult, but 
the brown is lighter, the shaft-lines are less pronounced, and the abdomen 
is washed with buff. 
“Ryerett?s weaver was common about the rice fields, and was several 
times observed in deep forest, greatly to our astonishment. Jour males 
average: Length, 108; wing, 48; tail, 39; culmen, 12; tarsus, 13; middle 
toe with claw, 16.5. Four females, length, 107; wing, 48.5; tail, 37.5; 
culmen, 12; tarsus, 14; middle toe with claw, 17. Iris dark brown; 
legs, feet, and nails leaden; upper mandible black, lower gray. Found 
breeding in Palawan in,the month of December.” (Bourns and Wor- 
cester MS.) 
705. UROLONCHA FUSCANS (Cassin). 
CHOCOLATE WEAVER. 
Spermestes fuscans CASSIN, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. (1852), 6, 185. 
Uroloncha fuscans SHARPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1890), 13, 364; Mc- 
GreEcoR, Bull. Philippine Mus. (1903), 1, 6; McGRrEGcor and WoRCESTER, 
Hand-List (1906), 105. 
Cagayan Sulu (McGregor). Borneo. 
Adult (sexes alike)—Entire plumage chocolate-brown ; chin, throat, 
wings, and tail darker; lower breast and abdomen with indications of 
light shaft-lines. A male measures: Wing, 49; tail, 37; culmen from 
base, 10.5; tarsus, 13. Female, wing, 50; tail, 39; culmen from base, 
10.5; tarsus, 14. 
Genus REICHENOWIA Poche, 1904.* 
Tail short and square; outstretched feet reaching to end of tail. 
Forehead blue, remaining upper parts mostly green; breast and abdomen 
tawny-rufous. 
* Chlorura Reichenbach, 1863, is preocupied by Chlorura Sclater, 1862. 
