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with claw, 22. Iris reddish to chocolate-brown ; legs, feet, and nails very 

 light brown; bill brown." (Bourns and Worcester MS.) 



491. TRICHOPHORUS PALAWANENSIS (Tweeddale). 

 PALAWAN HAIRY BULBTTL, 



Oriniger palawanensis TWEEDDALE, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1878), 618; SHAEPE, 

 Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1881), 6, 83, pi. 6, fig. 2; Hand-List (1901), 

 3, 318; MCGREGOR and WORCESTER, Hand-List (1906), 80. 



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



Palawan (Steere, Whitehead, Platen, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, Ce- 

 lestino ) . 



Adult. Above scarcely different from T. f rater, except that the 

 feathers on top of head have light shaft-lines; ear-coverts olive-green 

 with whitish shaft-lines; lores white, mixed with olive-green; cheeks, 

 chin, throat, and breast pale yellow, streaked with white; rest of under 

 parts pale lemon-yellow, olivaceous along the sides and flanks; crissum 

 light ocherous-yellow. The sexes are similar; length, about 190. A 

 male measures: Wing, 82; tail, 76; culmen from base, 18; bill from 

 nostril, 12; tarsus, 18. A female, wing, 81; tail, 72; culmen from base, 

 18; bill from nostril, 12; tarsus, 18. 



"Common in Palawan; feeds about' bushes in the open, frequently in 

 good sized flocks. Four males measure: Length, 185; wing, 84; tail, 

 73; culmen, 20; tarsus, 17; middle toe with claw, 18. Three females, 

 length, 174; wing, 81; tail, 74; culmen, 19.8; tarsus, 17; middle toe 

 with claw, 18. Eyes usually straw-yellow; in one case light hazel; legs, 

 feet, and nails light brown; upper mandible nearly black, lower gray." 

 (Bourns and Worcester MS.) 



Genus PYCNONOTUS Boie, 1826. 



Bill short, when measured from base, less than tarsus; rictal bristles 

 usually less than bill from nostril; wing short and rounded; the prima- 

 ries exceed secondaries by less than length of tarsus; a short crest which 

 is not very evident in dry skins. 



Species. 



a 1 . Legs and feet black; supercilium white, contrasting with the black lores; 



ear-coverts brown goiavier (p. 516) 



a 2 . Legs and feet light brown; supercilium and lores dull olive-brown like the 



crown; ear-coverts with white shaft-lines cinereifrons (p. 517) 



