510 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 



100.5; tail, 91; culmen, 26; tarsus, 19; middle toe with claw, 22. A 

 female, length, 235; wing, 97; tail, 90; culincn. VT; tarsus, 18.5; middle 

 toe with claw, 21. Iris chocolate-brown ; bill, legs, feet, and nails leaden." 

 (Bourns and Worcester MS.) 



On April 2, 1905, I collected, in Mindoro, a nest with three eggs of 

 this species. The ground-color of the eggs is white, under shell-markings 

 faint lavender, and entire surface thickly and uniformly marked with 

 elongated and twisted spots of reddish brown. The eggs measure: 26.1 

 by 18.2, 25.4 by 18, and 25.1 by 19. 



The nest was composed of several leaves which were held in place by 

 threads of a black hair-like fungus; cobweb and green moss in small 

 quantities also entered into the construction. The lining consisted of a 

 quantity of long slender libers. 



485. (OLE SIQUIJORENSIS Steere. 

 SldUIJOR BULBUL. 



lole siquijon-nxitt STKKRK, List Birds and Mams. Steere Exped. (1890), 19; 

 SHARPE, Hand-List (1901), 3, 314; MCGREGOR and \V<m< T^TKR, Hand- 

 List (1906), 79. 



Tig-ba-ya, Siquijor. 



Siquijor (Steerc Exj>., Bourns & Worcester, Celestino) . 



Adult. Forehead and entire top of head seal-brown; rest of upper 

 parts, wings, and tail lighter brown, the feathers edged with dark 

 olivaceous; tips of greater and median wing-coverts whitish, or li^ht 

 brown, forming two wing-bars; sides of head and neck light brown; 

 chin, throat, and bieast brown with a slight olivaceous wash, the feathers 

 with white shaft-streaks, the streaks on chin and throat very wide; 

 middle of lower hrca>t, abdomen, under tail-covert?, axillars, and uiiig- 

 lining white, faintly washed with pale yellow; sides. Hanks, and thighs 

 light drab-brown. A male measures: Wing, 133; tail, 121: culmen 

 from base, 32; bill from nostril, 21; tarsus, 23. A female measures: 

 Wing, 122; tail, 111 ; culmen from base, 31 ; bill from nostril, 20; tarsus, 

 23. 



This distinct species may be recognized by its entirely seal-brown head. 



"The Siquijor bulbul is found about low bushes in open fields, often 

 in flocks. Twelve males average: Length, 279; wing, 132; tail, 118; 

 culmen, 31; tarsus, 22; middle toe with claw, 25. Four females, wing, 

 121; tail, 109; culmen, 30; tarsus, 22; middle toe with claw, 23. Tris 

 chocolate-brown; legs, feet, and nails brown, bottoms of feet yellowish; 

 upper mandible black, lower black to dark brown." (Bourns and 

 Worcester MS.) 



