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olive-greenish tinge, the head and face browner. Below it is yellow, 

 duller than in the adult, the throat olive; wings and tail browner than 

 in the adult, with the same white spotting, but not so pronounced." 

 (Sharpe.) 



Genus PENTHORNIS Hellmayr, 1901. 



The genus Penthornis is distinguished from Pardaliparus by its nearly 

 uniform black plumage and white frontal band. 



Species. 



a 1 . Wings uniform black with no white bar semilarvatus (p. 608) 



a 3 . Wings black, but with a conspicuous white bar near the base of primaries 

 and secondaries tessacourbe (p. 608) 



597. PENTHORNIS SEMILARVATUS (Salvadori). 



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 WHITE-FACED BLACK TITMOUSE. 



Melaniparus scmilarvatus SALVADORI, Atti Soc. Ital. Sc. Nat. (1865), 8, 

 375; Ibis (1879), 300, pi. 9. 



Parus semilarvatus GADOW, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1883), 8, 38; WHITE- 

 HEAD, Ibis (1899), 224 (habits). 



Penthornis semilarvatus SHARPE, Hand-List (1903), 4, 333; MCGREGOR and 

 WORCESTER, Hand-List (1906), 94. 



Luzon (Whitehead, McGregor)', Negros (Steere Exp.). 



Adult male. Greater part of plumage glossy black, the following parts 

 white : Forehead to opposite center of eye, lores, line under eye, fore part 

 of cheeks ; a 'concealed patch on hind neck formed by the white bases of 

 the feathers; part of the inner webs of wing and quills, wing-lining, 

 axillars, and outer webs of under tail-coverts white. In one specimen 

 before me, probably immature, the tail-coverts are entirely black. Iris 

 light brown; bill, legs, and nails black. Length, about 130; wing, 75; 

 tail, 50; culmen from base, 12; bill from nostril, 9; tarsus, 17. 



Female. A female from Bataan Province, Luzon, has the under parts 

 mostly seal-brown but this is probably because of immaturity. Wing, 71 ; 

 tail, 59; culmen from base, 12; bill from nostril, 9; tarsus, 15. 



598. PENTHORNIS TESSACOURBE (Scopoli). 

 WHITE-WINGED BLACK TITMOUSE. 



Muscicapa tessacourbe SCOPOLI, Del. Flor. et Faun. Insubr. (1786), 2, 95 



(based on Sonnerat's figure). 

 Muscicapa luzoniensis GMELIN, Syst. Nat. (1788), 1, pt. 2, 942 (same basis 



as Scopoli's name). 



Micropus nehrkorni BLASIUS, Jour, fiir Orn. (1890), 147. 

 Penthornis luzoniensis SHARPE, Hand-List (1903), 4, 333; McGREGOB and 



WORCESTER, Hand-List (1906), 94. 



Mindanao (Sonneratf, Platen). 



Male. Similar to Penthornis semilarvatus, but with a broad white 

 band across the inner primaries and outer secondaries near their bases. 



