698 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 
710. ORIOLUS SAMARENSIS Steere. 
SAMAR ORIOLE, 
Oriolus samarensis STEERE, MP Birds & Mams. Steere Exped. (1890), 17; 
GRANT, Ibis (1897), 223; WuHutTEHEAD, Ibis (1899), 100 (habits) ; 
McGrecor and WorcESsTER, Hand-List (1906), 106. 
Leyte (Whitehead); Mindanao (Celestino); Samar (Steere Exp., Bourns & 
Worcester, Whitehead). 
Adult (sexes alike)—Upper parts, ear-coverts, sides of neck, second- 
ary-coverts, tertials, and middle pair of rectrices rich olive-yellow; lores, 
jaw, chin, throat, and chest cinereous; lower breast, abdomen, flanks, 
and thighs white, boldly streaked with black; crissum bright gamboge- 
yellow; primaries blackish edged with gray or olive on the outer webs; 
secondaries blackish, edged with olive-yellow on outer webs; inner webs 
of quills broadly edged with bright lemon-yellow; axillars, wing-lining, 
and bend of wing lemon-yellow; rectrices largely olive-yellow, blackish 
subterminally, each of the inner webs with a large yellow spot at the tip; 
shafts black above, yellow below. Bull dull red. A male from northern 
Mindanao measures : Wing, 113; tail, 79; culmen from base, 25; bill from 
nostril, 17; tarsus, 21. An unsexed specimen from Samar, wing, 101; 
tail, 68; culmen from base, 20; bill from nostril, 15; tarsus, 20. 
“A well-marked species sharply distinct from O. steeri, as well as 
from O. assimilis, though Dr. Steere has not made the points of difference 
very plain. Five males average: Length, 195; wing, 105; tail, 72; 
culmen, 24; tarsus, 20.5 ; middle toe with claw, 22.3. A female measures : 
Length, 203; wing, 104; tail, 71; culmen, 23; tarsus, 20.5; middle toe 
with claw, 22. Iris dull brown to light brownish red; legs and feet dark 
slate-color, nails blackish; bill light to dark reddish brown.” (Bouwrns 
and Worcester MS.) 
711. ORIOLUS STEERI Sharpe. 
STEERE’S ORIOLE. 
Oriolus steeriti SHARPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. October or earlier (1877), 3, 
213, pl. 10 (description of adult from Negros); Grant, Ibis (1896), 
532 (Negros; key to Philippine species of Oriolus); CLARKE, Ibis 
(1898), 119; WuitreHEAD, Ibis (1899), 101 (habits). 
Oriolus nigrostriatus BourNS and WorcESTER, Minnesota Acad. Nat. Sci. 
Oce. Papers (1894), 1, 16 (Negros and Masbate); Proc. U. 8. Nat. 
Mus. (1898), 20, 558, no. 305; McGrecor and Worcester, Hand-List 
(1906), 107. 
Masbate (Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester); Negros (Steere, Keay, White- 
head, Celestino). ' 
Male.—Above olive-yellow; slightly darker on head, and brighter, 
more golden, on rump and tail-coverts; chin, throat, and chest dark ashy 
gray; lower breast and abdomen whitish, each feather with a broad 
