CRYPTOLOPHA. 475 



Adult (sexes alike). Similar to Cryptolopha olivacea, but uniform 

 olive-green above with no gray lines on head ; lighter on rump and tail- 

 coverts; chin and throat clear light yellow; cheeks and ear-coverts light 

 greenish yellow ; a band of olive-green from lores through eye to occiput, 

 bordered above by a line of greenish yellow. Iris dark gray; upper 

 mandible dark brown, lower mandible pale yellow ; legs pale blue. Male : 

 Length, 127; wing, 58; tail, 44; culmen from base, 14; bill from nostril, 

 9 ; tarsus, 19. Female : Wing, 54 ; tail, 45 ; culmen from base, 13 ; bill 

 from nostril, 9; tarsus, 18. 



"Only a single specimen collected, but it is so distinct from the allied 

 forms that we have no hesitation in forming a species on the strength 

 of it. Legs, feet, and nails very light brown; upper mandible dark 

 brown, lower mandible light brown ; breeding in Cebu in June." (Bourns 

 and Worcester MS.) 



439. CRYPTOLOPHA NIGRORUM Moseley. 

 GREEN FLYCATCHER WARBLER. 



Cryptolopha nigrorum MOSELEY, Ibis (1891), 47, pi. 2, fig. 1; WHITEHEAD, 

 Ibis (1899), 110 (habits). 



Abrornls nigrorum SHARPE, Hand-List (1901), 3, 276; MCGREGOR and WOR- 

 CESTER, Hand-List (1906), 76.* 



Luzon (Whitehead, McGregor); Mindoro (Whitehead) ; Negros (Steere Exp., 

 \Vhitehead). 



Adult (sexes alike). Above dull olive-green, darkest on crown, light- 

 est on rump and tail-coverts; wings and tail brown, the feathers edged 

 with olive-green; two outermost pairs of rectrices edged with white on 

 inner webs; greater coverts tipped with greenish yellow forming a bar; 

 lores and post-ocular band dark brown, surmounted by a greenish yellow 

 line; cheeks and ear-coverts greenish yellow; below nearly uniform 

 greenish yellow or light olive-green, lightest on abdomen and crissum; 

 feathers of throat and breast with white shafts. Length of a male 

 from Benguet Province, Luzon, 114; wing, 57; tail, 40; culmen from 

 base, 11; bill from nostril, 7; tarsus, 20. Female, wing, 52; tail, 37; 

 culmen from base, 11 ; tarsus, 19. 



Young. An immature bird has the upper parts slightly duller and 

 the line over the eye much paler than the adult; throat and breast very 

 pale yellow; abdomen and crissum light yellow; the sides more dusky 

 than the center of breast and abdomen; pale yellow tips of wing-coverts 

 well-marked. 



* Cf. footnote under Cryptolopha olivacea, p. 474. 



