ORTHOTOMUS. 577 



on abdomen; wings dark brown, edged with lighter brown; tail with 

 an indistinct, dark subterminal band. 



"Adult male. General color above clear ashy gray; the crown, sides of 

 head^ including the cheeks, ear-coverts, and chin bright cinnamon- rufous, 

 the hinder crown and occiput gradually shading off into brown as they 

 approach the hind neck; throat, neck, and under parts generally ashy 

 gray; the center of the abdomen and under tail-coverts pure white; 

 thighs deep cinnamon-rufous; under wing-coverts washed with rufous, 

 as also is the edge of the wing; lower surface of quills dark brown, 

 .edged along the inner web with ruf ous- white ; wings above brown, some- 

 what washed with olive and not so gray as the back, the primaries 

 narrowly edged with whity brown.; tail light brown, with paler brown 

 margins, the outer feathers tipped with white, before which is a tolerably 

 distinct subterminal bar of dark brown; bill in skin light horn-brown, 

 the under mandible paler and more yellowish. 'Legs pale warm brown ; 

 iris naples-yellow.' (Everett.) Length, 119; culmen, 14; wing, 47; 

 tail, 44; tarsus, 19. 



"Female. Differs from the adult male in being white below, without 

 the gray throat, although indications of the latter are generally seen in the 

 grayish shade more or less observable on the lower throat and sides of 

 breast. The cinnamon-color of the chin is also difficult to trace, being 

 so faintly pronounced. 



"Young. General color above olive-brown; quills brown, externally 

 washed with olive-green; tail brown, tipped obscurely with whity brown, 

 with a subterminal shade of black, scarcely forming a spot; ear-coverts 

 pale rufescent; under surface of body dull yellowish white, the thighs 

 obscure fawn-color; center of the body pale yellowish, the sides of the 

 breast and flanks obscurely washed with greenish." (Sharpe.) 



561. ORTHOTOMUS CINEREICEPS Sharpe. 

 ASHY-HEADED TAILORBIRD. 



Orthotomus dnereiceps SHARPE, Ibis (1877), 113, pi. 2, fig. 2; Trans. Linn. 

 Soc. 2d ser. Zool. (1877), 1, 337; Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1883), 7, 

 222; Hand-List (1903), 4, 192; MCGREGOR and WORCESTER, Hand-List 



(1906), 88. 



Basilan (Steere, Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns <& Worcester, McGregor) ; Min- 

 danao (Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns <& Worcester). 



Adult. Entire top of head, lores, and hind neck dark ashy gray; a 

 large white patch on ear-coverts ; remainder of upper parts olive-green, 

 lighter on tail-coverts; wing-feathers blackish, edged with green; rectrices 

 olive-brown, edged with green; cheeks, chin, and throat black; fore 

 breast ashy gray; center of lower breast and abdomen white; sides, 

 flanks, thighs, and crissum washed with yellow. A ma-le from Basilan 

 measures: Wing, 47; tail, 55; culmen from base, 16.5; bill from nostril, 

 11 ; tarsus, 21. 



