506 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 



479. IDLE EVERETTI (Tweeddale). 

 EVERETT'S YELLOW BULBUL. 



Criniger everetti TWEEDDALE, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (1877), 20, 535; Proc. 



Zool. Soc. (1877), 827, pi. 84. 



Idle everetti SHABPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1881), 6, 57; Hand-List (1901), 

 3, 313; WHITEHEAD, Ibis (1899), 215; MCGREGOR and WORCESTER, Hand- 

 List (1906), 79. 



Dinagat (Everett); Leyte (Steere Exp., Whitehead ) .; Mindanao (Everett, 

 Qoodfellow, Celestino) ; Panaon (Everett) ; Samar (Steere Eaep., Bourns d Wor- 

 cester, Whitehead). 



Adult male. Above bright olive-yellow; primaries, secondaries, and 

 rectrices mostly dark brown, their exposed webs olive-yellow; shafts of 

 the rectrices light yellow below ; sides of face faintly washed with brown ; 

 feathers on jaw with black shafts; chin yellow, the shafts of the feathers 

 black and extending beyond the webs; throat and fore breast light 

 rufescent brown, washed with yellow; rest of under parts yellow; sides, 

 flanks, and upper thighs darker; middle of abdomen, lower thighs, 

 crissum, axillars, and wing-lining light egg-yellow. Length of a male, 

 198; wing, 116; tail, 105; culmen from base, 28; bill from nostril, 19; 

 tarsus, 20. The female is similar to the male. 



"Everett's yellow bulbul is a deep-woods bird, and a hill bird as well. 

 In Samar 7. philippinensis [=gularis~\ is found about the open fields and 

 in the forests of the lowlands, but as soon as one goes a few hundred feet 

 up on the hills I. everetti takes its place. Three males average, 248 in 

 length; wing, 112; tail, 96; tarsus, 20.5; middle toe with claw, 24; 

 culmen, 27. A female measures, 229 in length; wing, 96; tail, 89; 

 culmen, 27 ; tarsus, 20 ; middle toe with claw, 22. Iris chocolate-brown ; 

 legs, feet, and nails leaden; upper mandible nearly black, lower gray." 

 (Bourns and Worcester MS.) 



480. IOLE HAYNALDI (Blasius). 

 HAYNALD'S YELLOW BULBUL, 



Criniger haynaldi BLASIUS, Jour, flir Orn. (1890), 143. 

 lole haynaldi SHARPE, Ibis (1894), 253; Hand-List (1901), 3, 313; MC- 

 GREGOR and WORCESTER, Hand-List (1906), 79. 



Bongao (Everett); Sibutu (Everett) ; Sulu (Platen, Bourns & Worcester)-, 

 Tawi Tawi (Bourns d Worcester). 



Adult. Similar to lole everetti, but smaller and the upper parts darker 

 and browner; wings much darker, their exposed webs olive-brown; edges 

 of rectrices darker; under parts lighter yellow; axillars and wing-lining 

 pale yellow. A male measures: Wing, 109; tail, 100; culmen from 

 base, 29; bill from nostril, 18; tarsus, 20. A female, wing, 104; tail, 

 100; culmen from base, 29; bill from nostril, 18; tarsus, 21. 



"Haynald's yellow bulbul is extremely abundant in Sulu and Tawi 

 Tawi. It is a woods bird which does not seem to come out into the open. 

 Fifteen males average: Length, 240; wing, 108; tail, 99; culmen, 27; 



