470 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 



432. RHINOMYIAS RUFICAUDA (Sliarp-i. 

 RUFOUS-TAILED RHINOMYIAS. 



Setaria ruficauda SHABPE, Trans. Linn. Soc. 2d. ser. Zool. (1877), 1, 327. 

 Rhinomyias ruficauda SHARPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1879), 4, 



Hand-List (1901), 3, 267; \Vnri KIIKAD. II. i* ilS'i'h. ]0t : Mc< ;i:i ,.<M: 

 and WORCESTER, Hand-List (1906), 75. 



tietaria samarensis STEERE, List Birds ,V M.mi>. Steere Exped. (1890), 1(5. 

 Basilan (Steere, Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns <& Worcester) ; Bohol M<- 

 Gregor); Leyte (Whitehead) ; Mindanao (Steere Exp., Goodfelloic, Celestino) 

 Samar (Steere Exp., Whitehead). 



Adult male. Above rich olive-brown, darkest on the head; wing- 

 feathers blackish, edged with olive-brown; tail-coverts and rectrices fer- 

 ruginous; lores and ear-coverts pale gray, the latter washed with olive; 

 under parts white, washed on sides of throat and of body with pale gray ; 

 thighs brown. Bill black; iris brown; legs light blue. Length of a male 

 from Basilan, 152; wing, 74; tail, 57; culmen from base. 17: hill from 

 nostril, 11 ; tarsus, 18. 



Adult female. Similar to the male but lores obscured with brown and 

 ear-coverts olive-brown. A female from Mindanao measures: Length, 

 152; wing, 71; tail, 54; culmen from base, 15; bill from imMril, 10; 

 'tarsus, 16. 



Immature. Sides and flanks washed with brown and feathers of bivast 

 edged more or less with brown; greater and median wing-coverts tipped 

 with spots of light ocherous brown. 



See notes on this species under Rhinomyias albiguluri*. 



"Not rare in deep forest on Basilan. An immature bird has feathers 

 of head with rufous shaft-markings; feathers of back, and upper wing- 

 coverts with large spots of same color edged with black; breast similarly 

 but more faintly spotted. 



"Five males from Basilan average: Length, 143; wing, 74; tail, 60; 

 culmen, 17; tarsus, 16; middle toe with claw, 21. Four females, length, 

 129; wing, 69; tail, 50; culmen, 16; tarsus, 15; middle toe with claw, 

 16. Iris dark brown; legs and feet light slate; naiU same: hill black." 

 (Bourns and Worcester MS.) 



433. RHINOMYIAS OCULARIS Bourns and Worcester. 

 CHESTNUT-EYED RHINOMYIAS. 



Rhinomyias occularis BOURNS and WORCESTER, Minnesota Acad. Nat. Sci. 



Occ. Papers (1894), 1, 27 (error). 

 Rhinomyias ocularis SHARPE, Hand-List (1901). 3, 207; MCGREGOR and 



WORCESTER, Hand-List (1906), 75. 

 Sulu (Bourns d Worcester)-, Tawi Tawi (Bourns & Worcester). 



"Adult (sexes alike). General color above uniform olive-brown, 

 slightly brighter on the rump ; tail dark chestnut, much brighter on outer 

 webs of feathers which are very dull at tips; wing-coverts like back; 

 quills brownish black washed with rusty brown, this becoming whitish on 



