y REICHENOWIA. 693 
706. REICHENOWIA BRUNNEIVENTRIS (Grant). 
BAMBOO WEAVER, 
Chlorura brunnewentris GRANT, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club (1894), 3, 50;* Ibis 
(1894), 518; WuirrHEaD, Ibis (1899), 242 (habits and notes); Mc- 
GREGOR and WorcEsTER, Hand-List (1906), 105. 
Luzon (Whitehead) ; Mindoro (Whitehead, McGregor). 
Adult.—Above including tail-coverts dark grass-green; head green; 
forehead blue with a narrow black band along base of bill; lores, sides 
of face; ear-coverts, and under parts tawny-rufous, paler posteriorly ; 
sides of breast green, washed with blue; sides of body and flanks 
grass-green; primaries edged with olive-yellow; tail-feathers green at 
ends; center ones green, washed with orange. “Iris dark brown; bill 
black ; feet flesh-color.” (Whitehead.) Length, 106; wing, 58. 
This curiously colored weaver appears to be very rare or, at any rate, 
to be difficult to collect. Whitehead’s interesting notes on this species 
follow: 
“These small bamboo sparrows are always difficult to obtain; being 
wary and of swift flight, they disappear in a second when alarmed. 
Amongst the bamboo-flowers, on which they feed, their movements are 
very slow and quiet, and it is only after one has found a number of 
bamboo-clumps in full flower, by carefully hiding and watching the 
flowers, that any success is obtained. My first specimens were collected 
in Benguet at an elevation of only 2,000 feet [610 meters], and we 
next met with the species again at 7,600 feet [2,300 meters] on Monte 
Data, where a single specimen was secured. In Mindoro I shot a 
Chlorura [=Reichenowia] in a pine tree close to my camp, and noticed 
another some days previously feeding at the end of a pine branch; this 
was at an elevation of 4,500 feet [1,370 meters]. The note, which 
seems only to be uttered when the bird is on the wing, is ‘tsit, tsit, and 
is a somewhat hissing sound.” 
Family ORIOLIDZ. 
Bill as long as head, the terminal half decidedly compressed ; culmen 
slightly curved throughout; gonys straight or slightly curved; a small 
but distinct notch near tip of bill; nostril oval, exposed, and nearer to 
cutting edge of mandible than to culmen; rictal bristles short; wing 
long, covering one-half or more of the tail; primaries ten, the first more 
than one-half and less than two-thirds of second, the latter shorter than 
* Grant’s diagnosis of Chlorura brunneiventris follows: “C. similis C. Lorneensi, 
Sharpe, sed abdomine quoque rufescente, pectore concolore; pectoris lateribus 
caeruleo lavatis; fronte caerulea laetiore et minus extensa. Long. tot. 4.2 poll., 
alae 2.3.” 
