Go) MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 
third and equal to sixth; the fourth longest; rectrices well developed, 
tail slightly rounded. 
Genus ORIOMES Linneus, 1766. 
Characters the same as those given for the family. In the Philippine 
species the prevailing colors are yellow, black, and gray; the rectrices 
are black, tipped with yellow in all the species. 
Species. 
a. Under parts entirely yellow, or yellow streaked with black or olive; throat 
and chest never black nor gray. 
b*. Much larger; wing more than 140 mm.; tail, about 110; under parts uniform 
yellow (adult), or with black shaft-lines on the breast (young). 
acrorhynchus (p. 695) 
b*%. Much smaller; wing less than 130 mm.; tail, 90 or less. 
c'. Lores and chin yellow; bill leaden blue; bill from nostril, about 18 mm. 
' isabelle (p. 697) 
c@. Lores and chin white; bill dull red; bill from nostril, about 15 mm. 
albiloris (p. 697) 
a, Under parts yellow on crissum only; throat and chest gray, black, or streaked ; 
abdomen white heavily streaked with black. 
b'. Crown and hind neck bright yellow, or greenish yellow, uniform with mantle 
and back (sexes alike). 
c. Crissum bright yellow; shafts of rectrices light yellow below, inner webs 
broadly tipped with yellow, the spots 8 mm. or more in length. 
d*, Inner webs of wing-quills edged with bright yellow; under wing-coverts 
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d*, Inner webs of wing-quills edged with white, pale gray, or pale yellow, 
never with bright yellow. ; 
e'. Inner webs of quills edged with white or pale gray; yellow spots at 
CIPS (Of! LECLTUCES Wea Ser esas ca xcce ee cemen een adeneesl eee steeri (p. 698) 
e?, Inner webs of quills edged with pale yellow; spots at tips of rectrices 
smaller. 
ft. Ear-coverts dull olive-yellow; smaller; wing, about 110 mm.; tail, 
Ui Oe eaten Sabaneta aN OS ec aaa creed basilanicus (p. 699) 
f?. Ear-coverts pure gray; larger; wing, about 115 mm.; tail, 80. 
cinereogenys (p. 700) 
c*. Crissum dark greenish yellow; rectrices nearly uniform black, very nar- 
rowly tipped with yellow, the spots about 2 mm. in length; the shafts 
Swinbevor gray ail) dN beet ie Ae otk ees eae assimilis (p. 700) 
b*®. Crown and hind neck black (male), or black streaked with olive-green 
(female), in contrast with the yellow mantle and back. 
xanthonotus (p. 701) 
