514 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 



Genus TRICHOPHORUS Temminck, 1821. 



This genus resembles Irena in having long nuchal hairs and a rather 

 short, slightly compressed, bill, but in Trichophorus the nostrils are ex- 

 posed and the wings are relatively short and rounded, the primaries 

 exceeding the secondaries by about the length of tarsus; head slightly 

 crested; the colors are olive-yellow, light yellow, brown, and ^ray. 



Species. 



a 1 . Chin and throat clear gray; much larger; wing, more than 95 mm. 



f rater (p. 514) 



a 2 . Chin and throat gray, streaked with yellow; much smaller; wing, less than 

 90 mm palawanensis (p. 515) 



490. TRICHOPHORUS PRATER (Sluupe). 

 GRAY-THROATED HAIRY BT7LBUL. 



Crinigejr frater SHARPE, Trans. Linn. Soc. 2d. ser. Zool. (1877), 1, 3:54; 



Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1881), 6, 79, pi. 5; Hand-List (1901), 3, 317; 



MCGREGOR and WORCESTER, Hand-List (1906), 80. 

 Trichophorus frater OBERHOLSER, Smiths. Misc. Colls. (1905), 48, 152. 



Balabac (Steere Exp., Everett)', Calamianes (Bourns d Worcester) ; Palawan 

 (Steei-e Everett, Whitehead, Platen, Steere Exp., Bourns d Worcester, Celestim,, 

 White). 



Adult. Top of head dark tan-brown; back and rump olive-green; 

 upper tail-coverts and rectrices tan-brown, edged with tawny olive ; lores, 

 sides of face, a narrow supercilium, and ear-coverts light gray, the last 

 streaked with white; chin, throat, and breast clear light gray with white 

 shaft-lines; feathers of breast edged with yellow; rest of under parts 

 yellow, darker on crissum and slightly olivaceous on sides and flanks; 

 wings brown/ quills edged with ruddy olive on outer webs and with 

 ocherous-white on inner webs; axillars and wing-lining pale yellow. 

 Sexes similar in colors. Length, about 230. A male measures: Wing, 

 108; tail, 97; culmen from base, 23; bill from nostril, 14; tarsus, &$. 

 A female, wing, 100; tail, 92; culmen from base, 21; bill from nostril, 

 13; tarsus, 20. 



"This bulbul is very common and feeds always in the woods, so far 

 as our observation goes. Four males average: Length, 213; wing, 104; 

 tail, 92; culmen, 23; tarsus, 19; middle toe with claw, 21. A female, 

 length, 209: wing, 100; tail. SS : culmen, ?3 : tarsus. ?0 ; middle toe 



