476 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 



440. CRYPTOLOPHA MINDANENSIS Hartert. 

 MINDANAO FLYCATCHER WARBLER. 



Cryptolopha mindanensis HABTEBT, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club (1903), 14, 12; 

 MCGREGOR and WORCESTER, Hand-List (1906), 76; GRANT, Ibis (1906), 

 481. 



Behr-riss behr-riss, Bagobo ( Mount Apo ) . 

 Mindanao (Ooodfellow, M earns). 



Male. Above rich olive-yellow ; wings and tail brown, edged with olive- 

 green ; inner webs of two outermost pairs of rectrices white ; no light bar 

 on wing-coverts; lores bright greenish yellow; no dark line through eye 

 and no light line above eye; under parts rich greenish yellow as in the 

 female. Wing, 61; tail, 44; culmen from base, 12; bill from nostril, 7; 

 tarsus, 20. This description is taken from a specimen in poor condition, 

 collected on Mount Apo by Mearns. The description of the type is added. 



"Female. Upper surface olive-green; remiges blackish brown, out- 

 wardly edged with the color of the back, inwardly with yellowish white; 

 middle rectrices dusky brown, edged with olive-green, outermost pair with 

 the inner webs white, except a brown patch near the base; basal half of 

 outer webs pale sulphur-yellow, distal half, except a line near the shaft, 

 dusky brown; the next pair similar, but with little more brown near the 

 base, and the outer web throughout with dusky patches, the third pair 

 from outside with an irregular white stripe near the shaft on the inner 

 web and a narrow white border : \\ narrow brownish buff superciliar line, 

 not very conspicuous; under side sulphur-yellow; fore neck and breast 

 tinged with olive-green; under wing-coverts white, yellow near the edge 

 of the wing;- under tail-coverts yellow. Wing, 59.5; tail, 45; bill, 1<>; 

 tarsus, about 18; (not quite certain, because both damaged by shot)." 

 (Hartert.) 



441. CRYPTOLOPHA XANTHOPYGIA Whitehead. 

 PALAWAN FLYCATCHER WARBLER. 



Cryptolopha xanthopygia WHITEHEAD, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club (1893), 1, 31; 

 Exped. Kina Balu (1893), pi. 16, fig. 2; SIIARPE, Hand-List (1901), 3, 

 275; MCGREGOR and WORCESTER, Hand-List (1906), 76. 



Cryptolopha montis SHARPE, Hand-Last (1901), 3, 275 (part); MCGREGOR 



and WORCESTER, Hand-List (1906), 76. 

 Palawan (Whitehead). 



Adult. Top and sides of head, ear-coverts, and hind neck chestnut; a 

 broad band of black on crown from above eye to side of neck ; lores 

 yellowish; eyelids white; cheeks bright yellow, becoming rufous poste- 

 riorly; rest of upper parts dull olive-green; rump yellow; wings and tail 

 brown, edged with olive-green; median and greater wing-coverts tipped 

 with yellow, forming a double wing-bar; under parts, including under 

 wing-coverts and axillars, bright yellow with a wash of rufous on sides of 

 upper breast. 



