588 MANUAL OF 1'IIILII'I'INK BIRDS. 



bill from nostril, 9; tarsus, 22. A female, wing, 62; tail, 60; culmen 

 from base, 13 ; bill from nostril, 8 ; tarsus, 22. Exposed portion of first 

 primary little more than one-half of second; fourth and iifth equal and 

 longest. 



Jn the Philippine Islands the little bush warbler is known only as a 

 winter visitant to Calayan Island. 



573. HORORNIS SEEBOHMI (Grant). 

 PHILIPPINE BUSH WARBLER. 



Cettia seebohmi GRANT, Ibis (1894), 507; WHITEIIEAD, Ibis (1899), 211 



(habits, note) . 

 Horornis seebohmi SHARPE, Hand-List (1903), 4, 236, MCGREGOR and WOR- 



CESTER, Hand-List (1906), 90. 



Luzon (Whitehead, McGregor). 



Adult. Above dusky wood-brown, slightly olivaceous on the back and 

 more russet-brown on the rump, tail-coverts, and margins of tin- rectrices; 

 wings brown, the quills edged with russet; the first three primaries, 

 however, fringed with much lighter brown; wing-coverts olivaceous; 

 eyelids and eye-stripe whitish or pale buff; a dusky spot before' and b: -h'-nd 

 eye ; under parts whitish ; sides of neck and breast washed with olivaceous; 

 flanks and crissum yellowish buff; thighs brown. Iris light brown ; upper 

 mandible dusky, lower mandible, legs, and nails flesh-color. Length, 

 about 140. Male, wing, 55; tail, 63; culmen from base, 15; bill from 

 nostril, 9; tarsus, 24. Female, wing, 52; tail, 60; culmen from base, 1 \ ; 

 bill from nostril, 8 ; tarsus, 23. 



Although this species resembles //. m inn hi* both in si/e and color, it 

 might be placed in another genus. The tail is decidedly longer than the 

 wing, the latter rounded and weak; the first primary is equal to two- 

 thirds of second and one-half of third; the fifth and sixth are nearly 

 equal and longest. The plumage is somewhat decomposed and is less 

 compact than in //. minutus. 



Genus PHYLLERGATES Sharpe, 1883. 



In size and superficial appearance Pliyllergatcs resembles Orthotomus, 

 but the two genera are really very distinct. In Phyllergates the bill is 

 much wider and more depressed at the base, and blunter at the tip; the 

 rictal bristles are slightly longer; the wing is longer; the tarsus and feet 

 are more slender; the rectrices are much wider, nearly uniform in length, 

 except the short outermost pair, and but ten in number. 



a 1 . Chin and throat white ................................................. ; ............ philippinus (p. 589) 



a'. Chin and throat c-innamon .................................................... heterolaemus ( p. 589 ) 



